Lightweight SEO tools for news and blog sites: metadata, schema, sitemaps, Content Intelligence, Performance SEO, IndexNow, and audits.
Alternatives to Meta News & Standout tag
Plugins below are selected for functional relevance and current directory signals. Active-install counts do not affect this ranking.
WordPress plugins with similar use cases
Compatibility and update metadata provide context, not a quality guarantee. Review each plugin’s details for your site.
SEO for publishers and multilingual sites: free Google News sitemap, Schema.org, AI crawler control and a fact based audit with one click fixes.
Technical SEO for WordPress with metadata, Schema, sitemaps, redirects, 404 monitoring, Google News and safe migration.
News Sitemap Generator - Automatically generate a Google News sitemap with zero configuration.
Generates a Google News compatible XML sitemap for WordPress sites to be submitted to Google Search Console for better news content indexing.
Free AI content generator for WordPress. Auto-write SEO posts from trending Google News using ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude. No coding.
Boost SEO 🚀 with powerful XML, HTML, Image, Video & Google News sitemaps for better search engine indexing.
Add a Google Preferred Source button with the official design, 40+ styles, placement, floating buttons, and display controls.
Extend the WordPress sitemaps XML with article modification times, alternate languages, news sitemaps, image sitemaps, and video sitemaps.
Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap.