Dragan Nikolic

Slobodan Manić

Alpha Brand Media

In September 2012, Google announced “news_keywords” meta tag which is intended to help Google News to properly classify content and make it more discoverable for users.
This plugin picks your posts’ tags and uses them to generate “news_keywords” meta tag. No need to set up anything, it’s all done automatically. If a post has no tags Google News Keywords meta tag will not be displayed. You can use up to ten Google News keywords, so don’t go too tag happy.
Read more about Google News Keywords meta tag here:
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<li><a href="http://thematosoup.com/reviews/google-news-keywords-from-tags-free-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">How to Add Google News Keywords to WordPress Posts</a></li>
<li><a href="http://searchengineland.com/google-announces-news-keywords-metatag-133759" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Announces A Meta Keywords Tag Just For News Articles</a></li>
<li><a href="http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-newly-hatched-way-to-tag-your-news.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Announcement post at Google News Blog</a></li>
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Google News Keywords from Tags

Google News Keywords from Tags uses your post tags to insert Google News keywords meta tag to your posts.

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Extends the WordPress Sitemaps XML:
Improve the WordPress sitemaps XML with article modification times, alternate language URLs, news sitemaps, images sitemaps, video sitemaps (requires WPSSO Core Premium for video details) and more.

Include Alternate Languages:
Include <a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/localized-versions#sitemap" rel="nofollow ugc">localized pages for Google</a> (ie. alternate language URLs) from PolyLang and WMPL.
Include Images and Videos:
Optionally include images and videos in the WordPress sitemaps XML. Note that video information requires the WPSSO Core Premium plugin for video details.
Include Post Type Archives:
Include missing post type archive pages in WordPress sitemaps (like the WooCommerce shop page and The Events Calendar events page).
Select Post Types and Taxonomies:
Optionally include or exclude post types and taxonomies from the WordPress sitemaps XML.
Exclude Noindex and Redirected URLs:
Exclude noindex and redirected posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomies (categories, tags, etc.), and user profiles pages from the WordPress sitemaps XML.
<h3>WPSSO Core Required</h3>
WPSSO WP Sitemaps XML is an add-on for the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsso/" rel="ugc">WPSSO Core plugin</a>, which creates extensive and complete structured data to present your content at its best for social sites and search results – no matter how URLs are shared, reshared, messaged, posted, embedded, or crawled.

WPSSO WP Sitemaps XML with News, Image, and Video Sitemap

Extend the WordPress sitemaps XML with article modification times, alternate languages, news sitemaps, image sitemaps, and video sitemaps.

Google News Keywords from Tags vs WPSSO WP Sitemaps XML with News, Image, and Video Sitemap