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Hi everyone, welcome to Key2 blogging and today I will show you how can create a Google
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News Sitemap in your WordPress website. So recently I made a video on how to get Google News approval on Blogger and WordPress
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So in this video, I will show you how you can create a new sitemap in your WordPress website
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So for this, you have to log into your WordPress dashboard. And as you can see, I am using the RankMath SEO plugin, but there is no option to include
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new sitemap. So to create new sitemap, we have to add another plugin called XML Sitemap and Google News
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So let me just copy this term and I will go to plugin section and here I will click on
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add new. And here I have to search for this plugin
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Now I have to install and activate this plugin. Okay, let me just activate this plugin
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Now it will show an error like this. That's because we are using the RankMath plugin to generate the sitemap
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So to solve this issue, we have to go to settings and I will click on reading here
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And here I will scroll down and I will deselect the XML sitemap and I will select the Google
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News sitemap and I will click on save changes. And as you can see, this issue is now fixed and it is showing that keep only one sitemap plugin
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So as we are not using this plugin to generate XML sitemap, we are only using this plugin
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to generate the Google News sitemap. So you can ignore this warning. Okay
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Now you have to click on the setting icon here. Now here you will see an option like this
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So here by default, it will take the site title as the publication name or you can set
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a custom publication name here. And here you can select the post option and here you can limit the post category
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Suppose you are running a category like news, then you can select that category only so
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that it will only include that category in the news sitemap. So let me just select the blogging here and I will select SEO and I will select WordPress
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as my news category and I will click on save changes. Okay
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Now you can see your news sitemap by clicking on this button, Google News sitemap
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So let me just click on here. Okay. Google News sitemap is now generated in our WordPress website
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And here you can see that there is one blog post that's because news sitemap only allow
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posts that are published within 48 hours and Google News sitemap help Googlebot to crawl
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your sitemap and index the news content immediately after it published. So you can just copy the news sitemap URL and go to Google Search Console and under
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the sitemap, you have to enter the sitemap URL and click on submit
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So it may take some time to fetch the URL properly. So you can try again if not fetched immediately
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I hope you got the idea how to generate a news sitemap in your WordPress website
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And you can also use some premium plugins like Yoast News SEO plugin, or you can use
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the all-in-one SEO plugin, which allows us to create Google News sitemaps
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So if you want to generate it for free, then you can use this plugin, XML Sitemap and Google News
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If you have any doubt regarding this, then you can ask me in the comment section and
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