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
What does Yoast News SEO do?
If you’re a news publisher, your aim is that top result for every news story you publish. Besides crafting great and timely content, you also need to ensure your website meets the technical requirements to compete in SEO.
Thanks to the Yoast News SEO plugin, you can rest assured that you’ll always get technical SEO best practices for your news website. With this plugin at your disposal, you can confidently set aside concerns about the complex technical needs of SEO and concentrate on what you do best: crafting and releasing high-quality news articles!
What our users say
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I have been using Yoast since the time we started our website. The results were just fantastic! The SEO Analysis of Yoast has really helped me on how I can improve my content. This has helped me improve the traffic on my website by 10 folds, but we started ranking on the 1st page of Google on the majority of our searches. I really thank Yoast SEO for helping me grow my website.
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Yoast News SEO
- Help search engines discover and understand your news articles
- Create XML News Sitemaps
- Adds all the right and relevant structured data to your posts
- Immediately ping Google on the publication of a new post
- Get 24/7 Premium support
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Yoast News Premium bundle
- Be first to get new features & tools, before everyone else
- Help search engines discover and understand your news articles
- Optimize your content with Yoast SEO Premium
- Now includes FULL access to Yoast SEO academy
- Save big time with this bundle
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Plugin subscription
- 5 powerful Yoast SEO plugins for WordPress*
- All online SEO courses, ranging from Ecommerce SEO to Technical SEO
- Includes a full year of updates and 24/7 support
- Save big time with this bundle
Let’s have a closer look at Yoast News SEO
Find out how Yoast News SEO can help you to compete and learn about all of the additional SEO features we add to your news website!
Notify Google whenever you publish a news article
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Yoast News SEO automatically generates News sitemaps for you and immediately pings Google when you publish a new post. The plugin can create sitemaps on the fly; so no more waiting time and no more long sitemap generation issues.
Add the relevant schema.org markup to your news article
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Yoast News SEO adds all the right and relevant NewsArticle schema.org markup to your articles. This will allow Google to grab all the information they need to make sure your news articles are properly crawled and indexed, without any hassle and problem!
Do more advanced News SEO
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The Yoast News SEO plugin lets you to do more advanced News SEO by allowing you to decide whether a specific article should be in the Google News XML sitemap. You can also add stock tickers to your news article, which are references to companies that are in a stock market.
Exclude specific categories from your Google News XML sitemap
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With the Yoast News SEO plugin, you can easily disable specific categories that shouldn’t be included in the Google News XML sitemap. You can select and disable them after you enable certain post types.
24/7 Premium support
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