Yoast News SEO is
$229/yr.
This is $79.
For hyperlocal newspapers, community pubs, and trade journals priced out of Yoast News. Full NewsArticle JSON-LD with proper Person and Publisher linkage, author E-E-A-T signals, Google News sitemap, and a meta description bulk backfill that can use your own OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini key for real AI-generated descriptions.
Every hyperlocal publisher has the same three problems.
"Contributed" bylines
Legacy posts attributed to a generic author. Google can't build E-E-A-T on nobody. Our Author fields let you bulk-fix, plus emit Person schema with credential sameAs (LinkedIn, ORCID, Muck Rack, .gov/.edu bio).
Missing meta descriptions
A publisher with 15K posts has 12K blank meta descs — click-through gets butchered. Free tier: excerpt-based backfill. Pro: BYO LLM key generates proper descriptions from post content.
No Google News sitemap
Yoast News is $229/yr. Nothing else at the hyperlocal price point handles this correctly. Our /news-sitemap.xml serves last 48h of eligible posts with per-post keywords, protocol-correct.
Priced for the community-paper economy.
Free
$0 forever · GPL v2
- › NewsArticle JSON-LD on all singular posts
- › SpeakableSpecification (voice search)
- › Article family disambiguation
- › Basic Organization publisher
- › Excerpt-based meta desc backfill
- › Coexistence with Yoast / Rank Math / AIOSEO / SEOPress
Solo
$79/yr
1 site · everything in Free plus:
- › Google News sitemap at /news-sitemap.xml
- › Author E-E-A-T — sameAs credentials in Person schema
- › Full NewsMediaOrganization — editorial trust signals
- › BYO-LLM meta backfill (OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini)
- › Automatic updates + priority support
Publisher
$299/yr
25 sites · everything in Solo plus:
- › 25 site activations for publisher networks or sister-pub groups
- › Deactivate + move between sites freely
- › One license → hyperlocal chain, trade-pub family, or multi-brand pubco
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Questions
How is this different from Yoast News SEO?+
Yoast News SEO is a $229/yr add-on that requires Yoast Premium underneath — realistically $300+/yr total. This plugin gives you the same News schema, Google News sitemap, and author E-E-A-T signals for $79/yr. It also sits on top of your existing SEO plugin instead of replacing it, so you keep Yoast free / Rank Math / AIOSEO for everything else.
Will it clash with my existing SEO plugin's Article schema?+
No. Default behavior is to emit alongside with a unique @id namespace so the two graphs never collide. If you'd rather we step aside when Yoast/Rank Math/AIOSEO is active, flip the coexistence setting. If Yoast News SEO is active, we auto-defer to it (it already emits NewsArticle).
What's the free tier good for?+
Everything except the Google News sitemap, LLM-based meta description backfill, editorial trust signals on the publisher, and author E-E-A-T emission. Free tier gives you NewsArticle emission with SpeakableSpecification, basic publisher schema, article-family disambiguation, and excerpt-based meta description backfill. It's a huge upgrade from stock WordPress.
What LLMs are supported for meta descriptions?+
OpenAI (default gpt-4o-mini), Anthropic (claude-3-5-haiku-latest), and Google Gemini (gemini-2.0-flash). BYO API key — it stays on your server. Never phones home to kitmobley.
Who's the ideal customer?+
Hyperlocal newspapers (Keys Weekly, community weeklies), trade journals, industry publications, niche news blogs — anyone who needs News-grade schema but can't justify $300+/yr for Yoast Premium + News. The Publisher tier at $299/yr covers publisher networks with 5-25 sister publications.