Yoast News SEO introduces an updated method of including relavant schema data, like NewsArticle, to your articles, you may compete for the top spot in Google’s news carousel. There is no simpler way for search engines to understand the key points of your content to ensure that it ranks highly in Google News and similar services.

Features of Yoast News SEO Plugin

1. XML News Sitemap: Because Yoast News SEO uses the sitemap API of the WordPress SEO plugins, it pings Google as soon as a new post is published and instantly generates a sitemap, so there are no delays or problems with lengthy sitemap generation.
2. All the Relevant Schema.org Markup: The plugin enhances your content with all the necessary and relavant NewsArticle schema.org markup. This will make it possible for Google to easily gather all the data required to ensure that your post is correctly scanned and indexed, with no fuss or issues!
3. Advanced News SEO: By letting you specify a genre, define stock tickers, determine whether to index an article, and decide whether it belongs in the Google News XML sitemap, the plugin enables you to perform more sophisticated News SEO.
4. Exclude Categories: You may quickly remove particular categories from the Google News XML sitemap using the Yoast News SEO plugin. After you have enabled particular post kinds, you can choose from them.

You’ll also need the Yoast SEO plugin to use the News plugin. Both the free and premium versions of Yoast SEO are compatible with the Yoast News SEO plugin. But if you really want to beat that competition, purchase Yoast SEO Premium!