
Yoast News SEO Premium
Yoast News SEO Premium is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to optimize news websites for Google News. It simplifies the application process for Google News by providing essential features, including the creation of an XML News Sitemap tailored to your existing live news blog. This plugin enhances visibility and ensures that news content is properly indexed, helping users reach a broader audience and improve their site’s performance.
- Version: 13.3 verified in the package
Type: Plugin
Developer: Team Yoast - 0.15 MB (161,556 bytes)
wpseo-news.zip - Category: GPL WordPress Plugins · Yoast Plugins
- Files: 176, folders: 13
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- Updated February 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM UTC
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Yoast News SEO Premium is an essential WordPress plugin designed specifically for news websites looking to enhance their visibility on Google News. With its user-friendly features, this plugin streamlines the process of optimizing your news content, ensuring it reaches a wider audience.
Highlights
- Optimized for Google News: Tailored specifically for news websites to enhance visibility and indexing.
- Automatic Pinging: Automatically notifies Google crawlers to index your newly published articles.
- XML News Sitemaps: Effortlessly generates XML News Sitemaps that comply with Google News standards.
- Category Management: Easily enable or disable specific categories for inclusion in the Google News XML sitemap.
- Article Control: Customize which articles are included in the sitemaps and define relevant meta news keywords.
Who it is for
This plugin is ideal for journalists, news agencies, and bloggers focused on delivering timely news content and seeking to maximize their exposure on Google News.
How to install
To install, simply upload the ZIP file under Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin in your WordPress dashboard, then activate the plugin.
Current version: 13.3 · updated 2 years ago (February 4, 2025).
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- Result
- Clean — no threats found
- Scanned
- Sep 08, 2026, 11:19 PM UTC
- Engine
- ClamAV 1.5.4
- Files checked
- 176
- Size
- 0.15 MB
- SHA-256
- c725da6f02a0bc297b6e9741bb340d7bf05dd22a6831376994f7ec7a43691265
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