You can see Destructoid more often in Google’s search results by using it as a preferred source. Here’s how

Search has changed quite a bit over the last couple of years, and everyone in the media business knows it. You probably know it, too—you loyal observant reader, you. We’re sure you’re probably tired of scrolling past 17 blogs that all copied the same press release, just to get to the unfiltered, possibly slightly unhinged takes that only Destructoid delivers.

But there’s good news: You can train the almighty Google to bump up our beautiful nonsense to the top of your search results.

Earlier in August 2025, the overlords at Google introduced a new product called Preferred Sources to its proprietary search engine that allows users to customize which sites they’re more likely to see first on the search results page, a.k.a. a user’s “preferred source.” This product causes those sites to appear before retail stores or forums like Reddit after you’ve completed a Google search. For now, the Preferred Sources feature is only available in the U.S. and India.

If you’re a fan of what we’re doing here at Destructoid and want to help our site keep publishing content, we’d greatly appreciate you taking the time to make us one of your preferred sites on Google so we’ll show up more frequently on your results page.

And luckily for us both, it’s a simple process to set Destructoid as a preferred source. All you need to do is head over to Google’s source preferences page, type in “destructoid.com” (or follow this link for your convenience), then make sure the box is checked, as shown in the image below.

And ta-da! Destructoid and all of our staff’s finger-wagging will pop up first on search the next time you Google the latest Pokémon leak. Or walkthroughs for the latest hit release. Or, well, anything gaming related, really.