Add Redleg Nation as your favorite source on Google Search – Redleg Nation

Google has rolled out a new tool for users who want to get better information in their searches, both in terms of news and just your general search results, called “Preferred Sources.” This is useful both for genuine websites that offer quality and original content and for users looking for reliable information in an age when AI-generated ‘information’ is often incorrect or simply stolen from reliable sources and republished by someone who does no work at all, but reaps the benefits of others by simply stealing it. When you search for preferred sources, these sources will now appear at the top of your results.

So how can you set your favorite sources? The first thing you need to do is log into your Google account and then you can follow this link to manage your favorite resources via Google Search. Once there you can type in the website(s) you want to set as your preferred source(s) and once you click the checkbox it will show up as one of your preferred sources.

Once you do, hopefully you’ll come across our recent stories more often when you’re looking for things. Here’s an example of what it looks like if you search for Rhett Lowder after setting your preferred sources for Redleg Nation, you can see new icons appear – where the icon in the top right corner is where you can click to add your favorite sources and next to Redleg Nation there’s an icon indicating that this is one of your favorite sources for all your Cincinnati Reds related information:

To read more about Preferred Sources directly from Google, for all that you can click here.

This may not matter much to Redleg Nation’s competition on the Internet. Reds.com is clearly owned by Major League Baseball, which generates $12 billion in revenue per year.

Sports Illustrated is going to clickbait you to death with titles like “Reds relief pitcher has dominant season in return for organization,” but it’s an article about Buck Farmer who pitched well for two months in Triple-A after being released by two other Major League organizations and didn’t even throw a single MLB pitch in 2025. Oh, and they’re owned by a company that brings in more revenue than Major League Baseball per year. Blog Red Machine is almost as clickbaity and lower quality, and is owned by Minute Media (which also owns the company that provides Redleg Nation with the video highlights and ads on that box). They were recently valued at $1.4 billion.

Our friends at Red Reporter are good friends. But they’re also owned by Vox Media, which, depending on where you look, is worth half a billion to a billion dollars. Cincinnati.com/The Enquirer is owned by Gannett, which is currently valued at half a billion dollars. The Athletic is owned and operated by The New York Times and is worth just over $9 billion. I think you’re starting to get my point.

I don’t know how to give Redleg Nation a ‘value’. But I do know that we have never achieved six-figure sales annually. We make five figures a year and we spend thousands a year just running the site before we pay anyone (which we do).

An extra $5 or $10 a day really makes a difference to this website. That’s an imperceptible rounding error for the companies that own and operate all of our competitors.

If you enjoy the site, we would appreciate if you still use Google Search if you would add us as one of your preferred sources. Every little bit helps us keep our heads above water, the lights on and some food on our plates.