SleekView Charts for Yoast News SEO
SleekView Charts reads the Yoast News SEO postmeta keys and the wp_yoast_indexable rows for news articles, then renders sitemap inclusion, genres, stock tickers and 48-hour news velocity as Number, Pie, Bar and Area cards.
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Yoast emits the news sitemap. Nobody charts what is in it.
Yoast News SEO is the Premium add-on that extends Yoast SEO with a Google News sitemap, news-specific schema, genre fields, stock-ticker tags and a per-post checkbox that excludes an article from the news sitemap. The data lives in postmeta keys like _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-exclude, _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-genre and _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-stocktickers, alongside the standard wp_yoast_indexable row each article gets.
The default Yoast UI surfaces those fields inside the post editor and renders a sitemap at /news-sitemap.xml. There is no overview screen that answers questions like how many articles published in the last 48 hours actually qualify for the news sitemap, which genre tags are in active use across the desk, or whether stock-ticker coverage matches the topics the newsroom is meant to own.
SleekView Charts reads those keys directly and renders the newsroom view editors actually need: a Number card for articles eligible for the Google News sitemap right now, a Pie for genre mix, a Bar for stock-ticker coverage and an Area for publish cadence over the rolling news window.
Workflow
Turn news sitemap postmeta into a desk dashboard
Read the news fields
Compose the chart cards
Save the desk view
Share with the desk
Sample dashboard
Charts you can build from Yoast News SEO data
Articles eligible for news sitemap
Count
News articles by genre
Count
group by newssitemap_genre
Stock tickers in active use
Count
group by newssitemap_stocktickers
Articles published per hour
Count
group by published_at
Comparison
Default Yoast News SEO settings vs SleekView Charts
Default Yoast News SEO settings
- Sitemap fields live inside the post editor, one article at a time
- No aggregate view of news-sitemap inclusion across recent articles
- No visual split of genre tags or stock-ticker coverage
- No time series of publish cadence inside the 48-hour news window
- Editors cannot share a desk-level snapshot outside the WP admin
SleekView Charts
- KPI card for articles eligible for the Google News sitemap right now
- Pie split of news genres for desk balance audits
- Bar of stock tickers in active use for the markets desk
- Area trend of publish cadence inside the rolling news window
- Filters carry between the news article table and the chart cards
Features
What SleekView Charts gives you for Yoast News SEO
Newsroom view, not a sitemap link
Render eligibility, genre, ticker and cadence as Number, Pie, Bar and Area cards. The desk gets a measurable picture instead of trusting a sitemap URL to behave.
Filters span table and chart
Filter to articles published in the last hour, missing a genre tag, or excluded from the sitemap, and both the cards and the article table stay in sync on the same dataset.
Share a desk-level snapshot
Send a managing editor a URL of the genre coverage dashboard or export the filtered article list to CSV for the morning standup. The sitemap stops being invisible.
Audience
Who builds Yoast News SEO charts dashboards with SleekView
News editors
Watch the 48-hour eligibility card and the publish-cadence trend, and catch a dip in news output before Google News notices and Top Stories ranking drops.
SEO leads at newsrooms
Audit genre and stock-ticker coverage against the topics the newsroom is meant to own, and rebalance section assignments based on a measurable picture.
Section heads
Filter the dashboard to one section (markets, politics, sports) and check whether the team is hitting its target cadence inside the news sitemap window.
The bigger picture
Why a newsroom needs a chart, not a sitemap link
Yoast News SEO is excellent at one job, emitting a Google News sitemap and the schema that goes with it. But sitemaps are a black box for the people who actually run a newsroom. An editor cannot tell from /news-sitemap.xml whether the desk shipped 14 eligible articles in the last 12 hours or 3, whether the genre mix matches the section plan, or whether the markets desk has stopped tagging tickers.
SleekView Charts reads the exact same postmeta keys Yoast writes and turns them into a desk view. A KPI for eligible articles, a pie for genre, a bar for tickers, an area for cadence. The plugin still owns the sitemap and the schema.
The dashboard just gives the newsroom a measurable surface above its own data, which is something the post editor sidebar cannot offer at the scale a news operation actually runs.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView Charts for Yoast News SEO
Only the Yoast News SEO postmeta keys (newssitemap-exclude, newssitemap-genre, newssitemap-stocktickers) and the standard wp_yoast_indexable row each article gets. No external Google News API access is involved, because Yoast News SEO itself does not call the News API.
Yoast News SEO requires Yoast SEO Premium to be active, because it is a Premium add-on. SleekView Charts reads the same data once Premium and the News SEO add-on are installed, regardless of license tier beyond that minimum.
Yes. Apply a published_at filter for the last 48 hours, which is the window Google News looks at, and every card recalculates on that subset. Editors typically pin the dashboard to the rolling window so the KPI always reflects what is actually in the news sitemap right now.
Yes. Add author and primary category as filters and the dashboard scopes to a single desk, a single editor or a single section. Useful for section heads who only want to see the markets or politics desk without scrolling past every other beat.
Yes. Genre is a single value per article and renders cleanly as a Pie. Stock tickers are a list field, and a Bar grouped by ticker counts each occurrence so a single article tagged with three tickers contributes to three buckets, which is the read newsroom editors actually want.
No. Yoast News SEO still owns the sitemap, the schema and the per-post fields. SleekView Charts gives the desk an aggregate surface that the post editor and the sitemap URL cannot offer, without touching how the sitemap itself is generated.
No. Queries hit indexed Yoast tables and only fetch the rolling window the dashboard is scoped to. Even sites publishing hundreds of articles a day stay responsive because the grid pages the underlying data and the cards aggregate on the server.
Yes. Click a card segment to filter the underlying news article table, then export the filtered set to CSV. Desks typically export the missing-genre list or the 48-hour eligibility list as a morning standup brief.
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