The Yoast News SEO WordPress plugin is a valuable extension of the Yoast SEO plugin, specifically tailored for optimizing websites for Google News. By seamlessly integrating with the Yoast SEO plugin, it facilitates the implementation of essential features to enhance a site’s visibility in Google News and universal search results. The plugin excels in creating XML News Sitemaps, enabling the generation of editors’ picks RSS feeds, and providing support for the standout tag.

Additionally, it offers assistance in optimizing advanced XML News sitemap options, such as stock tickers. While the plugin doesn’t submit the site to Google News, it empowers users to refine their site’s structure and content to maximize visibility in Google News and universal search results, ensuring it appears frequently and in the best possible way.

The News SEO plugin for the Yoast SEO plugin helps you do all the things that allow you to optimize your site for Google News. It creates XML News Sitemaps, editors’ picks RSS feeds and allows for use of the standout tag, as well as helping you optimize some of the more advanced XML News sitemap options like stock tickers.

While this plugin won’t submit your site to Google News for you, it will help you optimize your site to appear as often and in the best way possible in Google News and in the universal search results.