shahican

Hi, any update or help on this ?

Hi, thanks so much for getting back.

1. Publish is greyed out. The reason is:
   it says there is : 2 empty sections
   
   i tried to add this two way. One by pasting the google news feed.xml into the feed url of publisher center. and also adding manually by url. But both sections show empty.
   on feed method, it says: There are no articles in this section.
   however when i check the feed url – all the posts are shown. I also try and refresh this and it says: Your section will be refreshed offline
   
2. So if i find that your plugin has generated a sitemap with a different url than the one that Yoast had set- then I just replace your one with the sitemap that yoast had initially set? (as i think it has a different url) – and then save settings I assume?
   

Hi, thanks for getting back.

1. I have opened my Google publisher center again and still its not picked anything up. WIll it only pick up if any new content was added after setting up? At the moment Google news is showing my account as draft and preview section says “You haven’t added any content to this section yet.”

I tried to add this by section on google news. First i clicked the feed option : RSS or Atom feed URL (required) – and entered the news feed url into that. When i saw that was not working, theres another option which says ‘web location’ – but still its finding no content.

2. And last thing, I am thinking of installing your plugin on a site that i have had for many years. I am worried that if your plugin creates a new sitemap – will this affect my current SEO ranking? I have been using yoast for the sitemap. If your plugin creates another, will this affect my ranking?

Would be so grateful if i can have some clear answers on these.

Thank you for getting back. That’s really appreciated.

I noticed it creates a google news feed which I assume is the same as RSS?

Is this the url i pass to google publisher center in the section to add url? I did this but google showing no “There are no articles in this section” – although i can see in your plugin google-news-site-map all the posts are visible.

How do i know that with your plugin that scraping bots cannot easily take content. For example with Yoast SEO there is a RSS section which will rank my page even if scraped.

Kindly let me know

Hi, thank you so much for your kind response. That is very helpful.

I am worried that if i enable spam firewall option – will it sometimes stop real customers entering the site – for example if they are on a vpn etc?

how does that option actually work – just so i understand before enabling.

I just dont want that if customers come into site from google ads (for example) that they reach a page which they have to confirm they are a real person. or something like that. Just wondered if it works like a recaptcha?

Kindly let me know.

please can you let me know about this?