Gunjan Jaswaal

Lightweight Newscast XML Sitemap For Google News is a lightweight WordPress plugin that generates a Google News compatible XML sitemap for your website. This sitemap helps Google discover and index your news content more efficiently, potentially improving your visibility in Google News search results.
Key Features:
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<li>Google News Compatible: Generates XML sitemaps in the exact format required by Google News</li>
<li>SEO Plugin Compatible: Works seamlessly with Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and All in One SEO</li>
<li>Automatic Updates: Sitemap updates automatically when you publish new content</li>
<li>Customizable Settings: Configure post types, categories, publication details, and more</li>
<li>Dual URL Access: Available via pretty permalinks and query parameters</li>
<li>Performance Optimized: Lightweight code that doesn’t slow down your site</li>
<li>Translation Ready: Fully internationalized and ready for translation</li>
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Perfect for: 
* News websites and blogs 
* Magazine and publication sites 
* Content creators who want better Google News visibility 
* SEO professionals managing news content
This plugin is compatible with:
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<li>Yoast SEO: Works alongside Yoast’s XML sitemaps</li>
<li>Rank Math: Compatible with Rank Math’s SEO features</li>
<li>All in One SEO: Works with AIOSEO sitemaps</li>
<li>Other SEO plugins: Designed to avoid conflicts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit the <a href="https://github.com/gunjanjaswal/Google-News-Sitemap-Wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin’s GitHub repository</a>.
<h3>Author</h3>
This plugin is developed and maintained by <a href="https://gunjanjaswal.me" rel="nofollow ugc">Gunjan Jaswaal</a>.
If this plugin has been helpful, consider <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gunjanjaswal" rel="nofollow ugc">buying me a coffee</a> to support development!

Lightweight Newscast XML Sitemap For Google News

Generates a Google News compatible XML sitemap for WordPress sites to be submitted to Google Search Console for better news content indexing.

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This plugin helps you to easily install the meta news keywords and meta name standout tags.
This tags are necessary if your blog or news website has been included to Google News.
What’s meta news keywords tags?
Meta News Keywords tells google what’s your news article its about.
If you have a news website, Google news crawler will join to your site and then your site should be able to tells google whats your article it’s about.
And how can we do that? 
Using Meta News Keywords.
Let’s see an example: 
Let’s say we have a news website and we recently publish an article about the coming Olimpycs Games.
How could the google news bot knows that your article its about Olympics Games?
A simple line between “head” and “/head” tags.
“meta name=”news_keywords” content=”Olympic Games, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro”
You don’t know how to do it? 
This plugin will do it for you.
At the end of every article, you just need to add the tags whats your post its about, and ¡voila! Meta News & Standout tag will do it for you.
You could read more directly from Google: <a href="https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/68297?hl=en" rel="nofollow ugc">https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/68297?hl=en</a>
What is a meta name standout tag?
Let’s say you have a really great article to publish on your news website and you think that this article deserves a boost to reach more people.
Then you should use Meta Name Standout Tag.
Using this tag, Google will say: ‘Hey, this publisher says this article it’s special… hmm, let’s see’
And how can we add the meta name standout tag?
Just install this plugin, go to the end of your article at the backend of wordpress and check the ‘Standout’ field.
Remember: You should use standout tag just seven times at week.
*We strongly recommend read the Google criteria to use Standout Tag before start to use it.
<a href="https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/191283?hl=en" rel="nofollow ugc">https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/191283?hl=en</a>
If this plugin has been useful to your website, we really appreciate your review.

Meta News & Standout tag

This tags are necessary if your blog or news website has been included to Google News.

Lightweight Newscast XML Sitemap For Google News vs Meta News & Standout tag