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. Itll make sure that Google is aware of any new articles on your site as soon as possible, using a specific XML News Sitemap. It will also help you optimize some of the more advanced XML News sitemap options like stock tickers.
News SEO plugin changelog 9.1 November 6th, 2018 Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where a PHP warning would be displayed when has been disabled for security reasons.
Other:
Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.1
9.0 October 23rd, 2018 Enhancements:
Allows term based exclusion in the news sitemap for all taxonomies connected to enabled post types.
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where terms with
set to false would be shown in the list of terms to be excluded from the news sitemap.
Other:
Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.0
8.4 October 9th, 2018 Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where the changelog would not show up when the plugin was updated.
Enhancements:
Makes it possible to exclude posts with post type post from the the news sitemap.
Other:
Compatibility with Yoast SEO 8.4
8.3 September 25th, 2018 Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where the XML of the news sitemap would contain an incorrect publication time when the user would use a location-based timezone.
Fixes a bug where posts with the post type of Post would always be included in the sitemap.