What is the best XML and News Sitemap for Wordpress?

My articles get indexed faster with a sitemap

[Broaster]

I'm currently using a free plug in, but I think its not indexing some of my articles, I have 4000 articles and only 1500 are indexed it seems.

I was wondering if anyone has a good recommendation for a Free sitemap that also includes google news sitemap for wordpress, when I don't use a sitemap my news articles do not get picked up until 16 hours later, which hurts me since I deal with a news website. so the news gets old by then.

[not2easy]

1. It helps to know what plugin you are using if you want to know what is better.

2. The WP plugin repository [wordpress.org] is a good resource to compare features. It tells you how many active installs each plugin has and what is the most recent version of WordPress that plugin has been tested with. This indicates both how popular and how current the plugin's support is. You can also see user's reviews to judge how well the plugin's performance meets users needs.

I use Yoast SEO plugin for WP sites I manage and from the numbers, it appears to be the favored plugin. I would not use any plugin that has not been tested with the current (4.9.5) version of WP. That would indicate a lack of commitment to maintain the plugin which can be a dangerous situation.

[Broaster]

I currently use the BWP google XML and News sitemap plug in

I wan tto use yoast but they stopped giving a free google news sitemap

I have a website in google news and I would have to pay for it

is the yoast sitemap really good? is it worth the money to pay for the news sitemap.

[keyplyr]

Is there any reason you can't just make your own sitemap.xml?

[not2easy]

In WP, the "pages" don't exist physically so it is difficult (impossible for most) to keep a sitemap up to date with the correct URLs. The taxonomy of WP means that each new article can have multiple URLs, and you only want one version of each submitted. News sites would be even more strenuous as most of them are semi automated, you may not know the URLs.

I have not used the Yoast sitemap for Google news, I do know that for their free sitemaps, you get to choose which taxonomy gets indexed and have options for the robots meta that is applied to sitemap creation. I don't know if the value is worth the price since I don't know the cost or its value to you. I know that there used to be many more (non-news related) features that moved to paid only and I don't find them to be worth an extra $100 per year per site.

[not2easy]

BTW, I just took a look at the Sitemap Plugins available and I see that there is one called "XML Sitemap & Google News feeds" which has a lot more installs than the one you're using. Have you looked at any of the available News Sitemap plugins? BWP is not even claiming to create Google News sitemaps.

[Broaster]

not2easy

thanks for the info

Ill check that one out, so that is a good one "XML Sitemap & Google News feeds" do I have to configure it, thats where it gets confusing to me im dumb when it comes to this stuff. I usually just use default or I will look to see if someone has a walk through its how I set up my genesis studiopres theme settings I found someone who did a setting walk through for best SEO

I looked and there are only a few news sitemaps the BWP sitemap isn't even updated but the guy a few months ago claims it still compatible with this version of wordpress

There is another one called Lana sitemaps if you can look that one up is that any good?

[not2easy]

Since I don't use Google News type sitemaps, I really can't tell you much about which one has what you want or need. Each plugin listed in the plugins directory at the link above has a product page that offers instructions and screenshots to help people decide whether that plugin is the one you want to use. A plugin with over 100,000 installs is probably doing something right.

As for "Lana", if it is reliable and compliant it will be found at the wordpress.org plugins directory. If it isn't there, I would not use it. Some WP plugin creators have lost interest in keeping their plugins up to date and sold them. Some of those buyers saw it as an opportunity for using a plugin's reputation for their own gain. Those have been removed from the directory but may be available from other sites. That is why I suggest only using plugins found at the WP.org directory. Plugins have full access to yur WP core files so you should be careful about where you get your plugins.

Because Google News sites seem to be highly competitive, you may find that others don't want to share what tools they find to be useful - meaning that you may need to dig into looking at the different options that are available.

[Broaster]

thanks for the quick response again

yes most people dont help or mislead you when you ask for help, its why Ive never been able to recover my sport news blog, I sked and asked on google help forums no help

I guess it comes down to backlinks but I put up articles and still dont get a top stories position my traffic is obsolete and when I dont post a new article I only get like 10 visits a day, I only get traffic around 100 visits if I post a few new articles.

Yoast used to have the news seo sitemap for free but they removed it and now charge money for it. Thats the one I used to use

But that one you told me of you said it seems good its a regular site map with a google news one and has hundred thousand download I think the maker name is RavanH