Joost de Valk

Yoast

Jip Moors

Anton Timmermans

Taco Verdonschot

Omar Reiss

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

Aaron Landerkin

<p>Bruce Clay SEO WP™ puts powerful needed features right into the hands of the writers creating content in WordPress. It is fully compatible with the Yoast SEO plugin, as well.</p>
<p><strong>What makes this plugin unique:</strong> It enriches your publishing workspace with SEO insights based on real-time search results and analytics data. In other words, you can see real-world insights while you work in WordPress. Integrations with SEOToolSet®, Google Search Console and Google Analytics make this possible.</p>
<p>The Bruce Clay SEO plugin works like software as a service (SaaS). Rather than a hard-coded checklist approach to optimizing a post or page, this plugin has a live connection with the SEOToolSet software. It analyzes your keywords and competition in real time.</p>
<p>You see on-page recommendations that are <em>customized per keyword</em>. So your page can better compete for visibility in the search engines.</p>
<p><strong>In the WordPress editor, you can:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Enter more than one focus keyword per page.</li>
<li>Analyze the top-ranked competitors without leaving WordPress.</li>
<li>See customized recommendations for keyword usage and content length.</li>
<li>Highlight keywords to easily see how well they are distributed through the content.</li>
<li>Check the readability level of a page and compare it to keyword competitors.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>In the Bruce Clay SEO dashboard, you can:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>See which are the top-performing pages and authors on the site.</li>
<li>View analytics data such as number of search impressions and click-throughs.</li>
<li>Identify problems with mobile performance.</li>
<li>Be alerted to duplicate content on the site.</li>
<li>Know how much content the site has for each keyword.</li>
<li>See how each page is performing, using integrated Google Analytics data.</li>
<li>View top-performing posts per author, measured by visitors.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Compatibility with Yoast:</strong> Bruce Clay SEO is fully compatible with the Yoast SEO plugins. If Yoast is active on the site, then the plugin uses the title tags, meta descriptions, and canonical and meta-robots directives from Yoast and disables those features within Bruce Clay SEO in order to avoid any conflict.</p>
<p>If Yoast is not being used, additional tabs let you enter meta tags and search directives for the page right in the WordPress editor.</p>
<p><strong>Subscription Cost:</strong> Monthly subscription is $24.95/month per domain and includes all the plugin features plus use of the SEOToolSet for additional tools and reports. Try the plugin free for the first 7 days. You can cancel anytime.</p>
<p><strong>To view a demo video, visit our <a href="http://bit.ly/2G8rb6Y" rel="nofollow ugc">Bruce Clay SEO for WordPress</a> page</strong></p>


Bruce Clay SEO WP

Next-level SEO plugin! Get on-page guidance per keyword based on analysis of top competitors. See analytics in the WP dashboard.

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