Hi frenchmedia,
I hope you’re doing well :).
I took a good look at Google News and I found this brilliant article, which shows you the requirements for Google News:
https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/2481358?hl=en&ref_topic=2481296
What this basically means is that The SEO Framework automatically conforms to that standard, if you at least categorize your News pages and submit the category indexes to Google News, which can be done here:
https://partnerdash.google.com/partnerdash/d/news#p:id=pfehome
The sitemap that’s included within The SEO Framework isn’t News specific, but will contain all the News links.
However, because of the Breadcrumb script that comes with The SEO Framework, Google will know directly if it belongs to the selected News category and can therefore index the pages as News without being dependent on an external sitemap.
From there on, everything should be working as expected.
The SEO Framework lets Google, Bing and Yahoo know about the sitemap changes with a frequency of once per 3600 seconds, I will write a filter so that you can adjust this to your requirements, the filter is as follows, and will be available next update:
add_filter( 'the_seo_framework_sitemap_throttle_seconds', 'my_throttle_limit' );
function my_throttle_limit() {
return 300; // 5 minutes
}
The News manipulation tags The SEO Framework misses are the featured tag, origin source and stock tickers. This is something I will consider, but I still have to figure out a way for categorizing all these options without tainting the clean and easy layout.
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask! Thanks and have a great day 🙂
