Using the WayBackMachine I was able to preview the progress of an old blog of mine and it brought back some memories, it reminds me of the Search Engine Optimization practices and tricks that I used to get the site to Alexa top 100 most visited website in some countries in just a year, Don't be surprised news website have great traffic potential but only if you know them. The top secret to this huge traffic and breakthrough is through include experimenting with the templates, news content arrangement page, categories, titles, Font Sizes, Images.You need to know this 10 thing before you write your very first content on your blog.
http://www.codingsavvy.com/2016/05/dont-even-think-of-starting-news-blog.html