Yoast News SEO plugin

Optimize your site for Google News

Help search engines discover and understand your news articles
Immediately ping Google on the publication of a new post
Create XML News Sitemaps

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What does the Yoast News SEO for WordPress plugin do?

Aim for that top spot in Google’s news carousel with our rewritten way of adding relevant schema data like NewsArticle to your articles. There is no easier way for search engines to grasp the main information from your article to make sure it ranks well in Google News and the likes.

What our users say

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You’ll need the Yoast SEO plugin (Free or Premium)

In order to use Yoast News SEO, you’ll need the Yoast SEO plugin as well. The News plugin works fine with both the free and Premium version of Yoast SEO. But get Yoast SEO Premium if you really want to kick that competition out of the race!

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Let’s have a closer look

Read on to find out exactly how it can help you to compete, and to learn about all of the additional SEO features we add to your online shop!

XML News Sitemap

The plugin immediately pings Google on the publication of a new post and because it uses the WordPress SEO plugins’ sitemap API it creates a sitemap on the fly: no waiting times, no long sitemap generation issues.

All the relevant schema.org markup

Our News SEO plugin adds all the right and relevant NewsArticle schema.org markup to your posts. This will allow Google to grab all the information they need to make sure your article is properly crawled and indexed, without any hassle and problems!

Advanced News SEO

The plugin allows you to do a bit more advanced News SEO by allowing you to decide whether a specific article should be in the Google News XML sitemap, set a genre, define stock tickers, and choose whether to index it:

Exclude categories

With the News SEO plugin you can easily disable specific categories that shouldn’t be included in the Google News XML sitemap. You can select them after you enabled certain post types.