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Simple News XML Sitemap Generator creates an XML sitemap optimized for news services like Google News, making it easier for your content to be indexed by news search engines.
The plugin is easy to use: once activated, the sitemap is automatically generated and updated every time you publish a new post.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Generates an XML sitemap compliant with news service specifications </li>
<li>Automatically updates when new posts are published </li>
<li>Full support for standard WordPress posts </li>
<li>Automatically includes articles from the past 2 days </li>
<li>Automatically pings Google and Bing when new content is published </li>
<li>Optimized for performance and security </li>
</ul>
<h4>How to use the plugin</h4>
<ol>
<li>Activate the plugin </li>
<li>Go to the “News XML Sitemap” page in the dashboard menu </li>
<li>Copy the sitemap URL </li>
<li>Add the URL to your Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools panel </li>
</ol>
<h4>Pro Tip</h4>
After updating the plugin, it’s recommended to go to Settings > Permalinks and click “Save Changes” to ensure the sitemap works correctly.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin automatically notifies Google and Bing whenever a new News XML sitemap is generated or updated.
<ul>
<li>Data sent: the URL of the News XML sitemap. </li>
<li>Data is sent via HTTP GET requests to the following addresses:
<ul>
<li>https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap= </li>
<li>https://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap= </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>This helps search engines discover newly published news content more quickly.</li>
</ul>
Service policies: 
– Google: https://policies.google.com/terms, https://policies.google.com/privacy 
– Microsoft Bing: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement/, https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

Simple News XML Sitemap Generator

Generates an XML sitemap optimized for news services following official guidelines for advanced 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.

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