Joost de Valk

Yoast

Jip Moors

Anton Timmermans

Taco Verdonschot

Omar Reiss

The purpose of this SEO plugin is to purge attachment URLs out of Google’s index as fast as possible. This helps sites 
that might have suffered from having too many thin content pages in the search index by removing them in the fastest 
way possible.
<h3>What does this plugin do?</h3>
This plugin makes all your attachment URLs return an HTTP 410 status. It then creates an XML sitemap with a recent last 
modified date, containing all those URLs. The XML sitemap with recent post modified date makes Google spider all those 
URLs again. The 410 status code makes sure Google takes them out of its search results in the fastest way possible.
With a nice trick, we also show end users the actual attachment image, so the user experience is not as poor as when 
they see an error page.
<h3>Yoast SEO required</h3>
This plugin is an extension to <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/" rel="ugc">Yoast SEO</a>. It requires it to work.
<h3>How long should you run this plugin?</h3>
After 6 months the attachment URLs should be gone from the search results. If you then remove the plugin, and keep 
Yoast SEO’s redirect setting on “Yes”, you have the best long term behavior for attachment URLs: to redirect to the 
actual attachment.
<h3>Does Google condone this?</h3>
This method has been discussed with and OK’d by Google.
<h3>From within WordPress</h3>
<ol>
<li>Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’</li>
<li>Search for ‘Yoast SEO: Search Index Purge’</li>
<li>Activate Yoast SEO: Search Index Purge from your Plugins page.</li>
<li>Go to “after activation” below.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Manually</h3>
<ol>
<li>Upload the <code>yoast-seo-search-index-purge</code> folder to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory</li>
<li>Activate the Yoast SEO: Search Index Purge plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress</li>
<li>Go to “after activation” below.</li>
</ol>
<h3>After activation</h3>

Yoast SEO: Search Index Purge

Remove attachment URLs from Google's index as fast as possible to prevent thin content penalties.

Syed Balkhi

benjaminprojas

AIOSEO Plugin Team

<h3>AIOSEO – The Best WordPress SEO Plugin & Toolkit</h3>
All in One SEO is the original WordPress SEO plugin started in 2007. Today, over 3 million website owners and SEO experts use AIOSEO for higher SEO rankings.
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<h3>What Makes AIOSEO Better than Other WordPress SEO Plugins</h3>
AIOSEO is leading the innovation in WordPress SEO space, and our SEO features will give you a competitive advantage.
<ul>
<li>
Easy SEO Setup Wizard 
Our SEO setup wizard optimizes your website’s SEO settings based on your unique industry needs in less than 5 minutes.
</li>
<li>
Smart Schema Markup (aka Rich Snippets) 
Get better click through rate (CTR) and Google rich featured snippets using advanced SEO schema markups like FAQ schema, product schema, recipe schema markup, and dozens more using our custom <a href="https://aioseo.com/features/rich-snippets-schema/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" title="Schema Generator" rel="nofollow ugc">Schema Generator</a>.
</li>
<li>
AI Content 
Create anything you need, such as blog articles and tables, with our AI Assistant block. Generate stunning visuals instantly with the built-in AI Image Generator. Save time by automatically generating SEO titles, meta descriptions, FAQs, key points, social media posts, and more with our <a href="https://aioseo.com/features/ai-content/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" title="AI Content" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Content Generator</a>.
</li>
<li>
Unlimited SEO Keywords 
Optimize for unlimited SEO keywords using our SEO content analyzer. Our TruSEO score gives you detailed content & readability analysis, so you can get higher SEO rankings.
</li>
<li>
Google Keyword Rank Tracking 
Easily track how your website is ranking for different keywords in Google from your <a href="https://aioseo.com/features/search-statistics/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" title="Google Keyword Rank Tracker" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress dashboard</a>.
</li>
<li>
Automatic Link Assistant 
Automate internal links between your pages using our smart <a href="https://aioseo.com/features/internal-link-assistant/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" title="Link Assistant" rel="nofollow ugc">internal linking algorithm</a> that will help improve on-page SEO.
</li>
<li>
Local Business SEO 
Improve your local SEO presence with local business schema, support for multiple local store locations, business opening hours, Google Maps integration, contact info (business email, business phone, business address, etc), and more with our <a href="https://aioseo.com/features/local-seo/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" title="Local SEO" rel="nofollow ugc">Local SEO module</a>.
</li>
<li>
Site Audit 
Get a detailed report of SEO issues for all posts and terms on your site, discover why these issues are important and how you can fix them.
</li>
<li>
SEO Revisions 
Keep a <a href="https://aioseo.com/seo-revisions/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" title="SEO Revisions" rel="nofollow ugc">historical record of SEO changes</a>, monitor the impact of changes, and restore previous versions in one click.
</li>
<li>
Content Decay Tracking 
Never lose traffic to competitors. Quickly detect which content is losing traffic / SEO rankings, so you can optimize it to regain your rankings with our <a href="https://aioseo.com/features/search-statistics/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" title="Search Statistics" rel="nofollow ugc">Search Statistics module</a>.
</li>
<li>
Smart XML Sitemap 
Advanced XML sitemaps to boost your SEO rankings (with easy setup inside Google Search Console). Also includes Video SEO XML sitemap, News SEO XML sitemap, RSS sitemap, and HTML sitemap.
</li>
<li>
404 Error Monitor 
Automatic 404 error monitor helps you track and redirect 404 errors, so you don’t lose SEO rankings.
</li>
<li>
Author SEO 
Add <a href="https://aioseo.com/features/author-seo-google-e-e-a-t/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" title="Author SEO (E-E-A-T)" rel="nofollow ugc">custom author profile pages, author bio box, and relevant author schema</a> to boost Google EEAT score to help with Google’s Helpful Content Update (HCU).
</li>
<li>
LLMs.txt Generator 
Generate an llms.txt file to help AI engines discover your site’s content more easily so your content can rank in AI search results.
</li>
<li>
SEO Audit Checklist 
Improve your SEO ranking with our comprehensive SEO audit checklist.
</li>
<li>
Knowledge Graph Support 
Improve your website’s search appearance with SEO Knowledge panel.
</li>
<li>
Table of Contents 
Automatically generate a table of content, customize headings, anchors, and you can also hide or reorder the headings.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Advanced SEO Plugin Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>
User Access Control 
Control who can manage your SEO settings with our advanced SEO access control.
</li>
<li>
WordPress REST API 
Manage your SEO metadata with WordPress REST API. Great for headless WordPress installations.
</li>
<li>
Advanced Robots Meta SEO Settings 
Granular controls for no index, no follow, no archive, no snippet, max snippet, max video, etc.
</li>
<li>
RSS Content for SEO 
Stop content scraping from hurting your SEO rankings.
</li>
<li>
Full Site Redirects 
Merging websites or switching domains? Full site redirect makes it easy to switch domains without losing SEO rankings.
</li>
<li>
Smart Meta Title & Description 
Automatic SEO generation, dynamic SEO smart tags, include Emoji, add shortcodes, and more features to stand out in search results.
</li>
<li>
Smart Breadcrumbs 
Add Breadcrumb navigation to improve user experience and boost your SEO rankings. Comes with full SEO JSON+LD support.
</li>
<li>
Automatic Image SEO 
Helps your images rank higher by autogenerating image title, clean SEO image filenames, and more.
</li>
<li>
Advanced SEO Canonical URLs 
Prevent duplicate content in SEO with automatic canonical URLs.
</li>
<li>
SEO Cleanup / Manual SEO Penalty Removal 
Domains Report feature in Link Assistant automatically removes all links for specific domains with just one click. Huge time saver when doing SEO cleanups.
</li>
<li>
Link Opportunities Report 
See better internal link opportunities with our smart algorithm. Easily add internal links with just a few clicks.
</li>
<li>
Robots.txt Editor 
Manage and customize SEO robots.txt files in WordPress.
</li>
<li>
Crawl Quota Management 
Crawl Cleanup feature manages your search engine crawl quota and index your important content faster.
</li>
<li>
Title and Nofollow for SEO 
Easily add title and nofollow to external links.
</li>
<li>
Headline Analyzer 
Analyze your page / posts headlines to improve CTR and SEO rankings.
</li>
<li>
Competitor Site SEO Analysis 
Use competitor SEO analysis to outrank them with better SEO optimization.
</li>
<li>
SEO Code Snippets 
Integration with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/insert-headers-and-footers/" rel="ugc">WPCode plugin</a> for SEO code snippets to further customize every aspect of your SEO.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress SEO Integrations</h3>
<ul>
<li>
Google Search Console Integration 
Connect with Google webmaster tools and Google Search Console to see SEO insights (like content rankings, keyword rankings, page speed insights, post index status, etc) directly in your WordPress dashboard.
</li>
<li>
WooCommerce SEO 
Improves your WooCommerce SEO rankings. Easily optimize WooCommerce product pages, product categories, and more for best eCommerce SEO results.
</li>
<li>
Knowledge Panel SEO 
Improve website SEO appearance by adding social media profile links for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Instagram, LinkedIn, Yelp, YouTube, and more.
</li>
<li>
Webmaster Tool Integrations 
Connect with all webmaster tools including Google Search Console, Bing SEO, Yandex SEO, Baidu SEO, Google Analytics, Pinterest site verification, and more.
</li>
<li>
Social Media Integration 
Facebook SEO, Twitter SEO, and Pinterest SEO with better website previews.
</li>
<li>
Google AMP SEO Integration 
Improve your mobile SEO rankings with Google AMP SEO.
</li>
<li>
Semrush SEO integration 
See additional SEO keywords with Semrush SEO integration.
</li>
<li>
Microsoft Clarity Integration 
See visitor interactions with heatmaps and session recordings.
</li>
<li>
IndexNow Integration 
Instantly notify Bing and Yandex for faster SEO indexing.
</li>
<li>
Elementor SEO 
Better Elementor SEO for landing pages.
</li>
<li>
Divi SEO 
Better Divi SEO for landing pages.
</li>
<li>
Avada SEO 
Better Avada SEO for landing pages.
</li>
<li>
WP Bakery SEO 
Better WP Bakery SEO for landing pages.
</li>
<li>
SeedProd SEO 
Optimize SeedProd landing pages for SEO.
</li>
<li>
SiteOrigin SEO 
Better SiteOrigin SEO for landing pages.
</li>
<li>
Open Graph Support 
Improve SEO rankings with open graph meta data.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress SEO Plugin Importer</h3>
Not happy with your current SEO plugin? We make SEO migration easy with our point-and-click automated SEO data transfer tool. We currently support SEO migration from following SEO tools:
<ul>
<li>Yoast SEO Importer</li>
<li>Yoast SEO Premium Importer</li>
<li>RankMath SEO Importer</li>
<li>SEOPress</li>
</ul>
We also support importing SEO redirects from the following plugins:
<ul>
<li>Redirection Plugin</li>
<li>Simple 301 Redirects Importer</li>
<li>Safe Redirect Manager</li>
<li>301 Redirects Importer</li>
</ul>
Aside from that, our SEO migration tool also helps you with:
<ul>
<li>Import / Export AIOSEO settings from one site to another</li>
<li>Create SEO Settings Backup</li>
<li>CSV Sitemap Import to Import additional pages to your XML Sitemaps</li>
</ul>
Now you can see why AIOSEO is often rated the best SEO plugin in WordPress.
Give AIOSEO a try.
Want to unlock more SEO features? <a href="https://aioseo.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" title="All in One SEO for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to AIOSEO Pro</a>.
<h3>Credits</h3>
This plugin is created by <a href="https://benjaminrojas.net/" title="Benjamin Rojas" rel="nofollow ugc">Benjamin Rojas</a> and <a href="https://syedbalkhi.com/" title="Syed Balkhi" rel="nofollow ugc">Syed Balkhi</a>.
<h3>Branding Guideline</h3>
AIOSEO® is a registered trademark of Semper Plugins LLC. When writing about the WordPress SEO plugin by AIOSEO, please use the following format.
<ul>
<li>AIOSEO (correct)</li>
<li>All in One SEO (correct)</li>
<li>AIO SEO (incorrect)</li>
<li>All in 1 SEO (incorrect)</li>
<li>AISEO (incorrect)</li>
</ul>

All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic

AIOSEO is a great plugin for using SEO on my WordPress Website (wpdeveloperr.com). AIOSEO is incredibly good and extremely easy to use. Thank you AIOSEO Team

Very Quick and Best SEO Plugin

So easy & usefull


AIOSEO installation practices leave a lot to be desired. They aren’t transparent about what they install, and I ended up with plugins I didn’t need, some of which I had already uninstalled and cleaned out the files, folders, and database tables for. This caused a lot of additional work to clean up the mess they created. Unless you want a slower site from bloatware and the headache of cleaning up an unneeded mess, I suggest finding an alternative SEO management plugin.


Shady Business Practices


I like how simple it is to get started creating good SEO titles and content. Will probably buy a license one things get rolling.


Easy to use with many to=ips


There are at least two SEO plugins I prefer over this one, but I still find it often on client sites that I didn't build… along with WPForms Lite, UserFeedback Lite, and OptinMonster… none of which any of those sites are actually using, but someone got tricked into installing them by this plugin's setup process.


Tricks people into installing other unrelated plugins


it's great that you can import/export settings from/to other seo plugins


great


This plugin works very well.  It is easy to tell what I need to change, plus the sitemaps feature works well.  Also, it does not create too many annoying notifications on the dashboard, a big plus in my book.  Well made plugin that has been helping me drive more traffic to my site!


Works great, and doesn't create too many notifications!


Have used this plugin on thousand+ websites till now and it's easy to use, works perfect for the basic use case. As a developer, I don't find this hard to use. Will be using till I use the WordPress platform.


Easy to use


One of the best experiences I have had with support on a plugin ever! Prabhat was super knowledgable, attentive and quick to provide a resolution for my issue. I definitely recommend AIOSEO!


Fantastic Support!

AIOSEO is the most powerful WordPress SEO plugin. Improve SEO rankings and traffic with comprehensive SEO tools and smart AI SEO optimizations!

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