How to Create Google News Sitemap in WordPress
Hi to all, in this article I am going to tell you all about how to create google news sitemap in WordPress website easily in just few minutes.
So, read the below provided steps carefully and completely to get clear understanding about creating and adding google news sitemap in WordPress website without any issue or error.
Here, I will cover free and paid plugins available for news sitemap. After successful creating news sitemap you need to submit it in your search console for faster indexing.
The latest news content are generally short lived and need to shown to the audience immediately and these types of content will become outdated very soon. That is why a news sitemap will helps google bot to crawl your news content immediately when you publish it.
Steps to create News Sitemap in WordPress
There are so many different types of plugins available in WordPress to create news sitemap like All in one SEO, Yoast News SEO plugin, XML Sitemap & Google News etc. The first two are premium paid plugins and the last one is a free plugin.
So, first of all you need to login to your WordPress website dashboard and then go to plugins section and click on Add New.
Now search for "XML Sitemap & Google News" and install this plugin and then activate it.
Post successful installation of this plugin you will see an warning like install only one SEO plugin, if you are using plugins like Yoast SEO or RankMath plugins for sitemaps.
For this you need to go to your WordPress settings and then go to Reading Tab and disable the xml sitemap and enable the News sitemap only.
Now you need to click on the settings in the right side and then you will see a screen as shown in the below image.
Now you just type your publication name or it will takes the website name automatically and you can select some specific category to include it in sitemap.
Now you can access your news sitemap by using this following URL: https://example.com/sitemap-news.xml
Note that the google sitemap will only display the latest blog post that are published in the last 48 hours only.
Now you have successfully learned how to create a news sitemap in WordPress website for free.
If you want more features then you can shift to the premium plan of the above plugin or you can use plugins like
After creating the news sitemap, now you need to login to your google Search console dashboard and you need to click on sitemaps section.
Now you need to enter the sitemap URL and submit it.
Main Guidelines for Google News sitemap
1) Firstly, the posts that you have publish are placed in the sitemap for just 2 days, then they are removed and it is a Google guideline. However, Google may keep the post in their index for up to 30 days.
2) The sitemap can include only 1000 or 1k URL's
3) Now you have to update your news sitemap with the new articles as they are published. Google news crawls news sitemaps as often as it crawls the rest of your website.
4) And update your current sitemap with your new article URL's and do not create a new sitemap with each update.
If you want to learn more information regarding this then you can refer this webpage.
Conclusion
I hope that you have understood about how to create news sitemap in WordPress website easily in just few minutes.
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