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Standout Stories

Google no longer seems to be using this as a signal. There's nothing to be gained by using this plugin. This plugin lets you tell Google News abo …

Standout Stories ranks #33,981 among WordPress.org plugins with 10+ active installations, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Oct 28, 2013. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 3.3 (Current: 7.1.4)
vtrunk Current Version vtrunk
Updated 13 years ago Last Update on 28 Oct, 2013
Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on
Top 50% by installs No update in over a year
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#33,981
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Active Installs
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KW Avg Position
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Rank Changes

32,282 33,131 33,981 34,831 35,680 31-10-2026 01-11-2026 02-11-2026 03-11-2026 04-11-2026 05-11-2026 06-11-2026 07-11-2026
33,285 33,625 33,965 34,305 34,645 23-10-2026 24-10-2026 25-10-2026 26-10-2026 27-10-2026 28-10-2026 29-10-2026 30-10-2026 31-10-2026 01-11-2026 02-11-2026 03-11-2026 04-11-2026 05-11-2026 06-11-2026 07-11-2026
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Plugin Details

Version
trunk
Last Updated
Oct 28, 2013
Requires WP
2.0.2+
Tested Up To
3.3
PHP Version
N/A
Author
rsingel

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Standout Stories

When you select one of your posts as a standout story, the plugin puts a special link in the header of the story, which your readers won't see, but Google News will. If you re-blog or reference a great story someone else wrote, you can use the special standout link button on the Visual Editor bar to give them credit. The links in your post's header look like this: <link rel='standout' href='http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/business/luck-is-just-the-spark-for-business-giants.html' />
The Standout Story button works just like the Link button. First, you must highlight the text you want to link to in the body of your post, then hit the Standout link button. Then you will be able to link to someone else's great story in the body of your post, and the plugin will add the special link into your post's header.
Google says it will use the standout story links as part of its determination of which stories to feature on its popular news page.
The tags are visible to any search spider so if it's a useful signal, expect other aggregation sites will use it as well.

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