Joost de Valk

Yoast

Anton Timmermans

Jip Moors

Omar Reiss

Taco Verdonschot

<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.

Felix

DELUCKS

Christian Sunderbrink

<h3>WordPress SEO Plugin made in Germany</h3>
<p>Optimize your website for Google, Bing & Co in no time: Through the quick optimization mode of DELUCKS SEO you can improve your metadata, extend your content with structured data and relevant keywords not only while editing posts, pages etc., but also directly from the overviews of WordPress.</p>
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<h3>Extensive functions of DELUCKS SEO</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Metadata</strong> optimization for better previews</li>
<li><strong>Sitemaps</strong> for easier indexing</li>
<li>Insert <strong>statistics</strong> and import SISTRIX rankings</li>
<li>Canonical <strong>URLs</strong> with SSL support</li>
<li><strong>Breadcrumbs</strong> for better navigation and mobile SEO</li>
<li>Premium: Automatically invalidate outbound <strong>links</strong></li>
<li>Premium: <strong>Microdata</strong> Configurator for rich snippets</li>
<li>Premium: <strong>Social sharing</strong> buttons, CCPA and GDPR compliant</li>
<li>Premium: WDF*IDF <strong>text analysis</strong></li>
</ul>
<h4>Setup Wizard</h4>
<p>After installation, our setup wizard will guide you through the most important SEO settings: Authorize your project for Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, activate additional features through the premium version and/or the professional mode if desired.</p>
<h4>Import and export function</h4>
<p>Import your keyword set with metadata easily via CSV file. If you previously worked with other WordPress SEO plugins like Yoast, wpSEO or All in One SEO Pack, you can import their metadata with a few clicks. Export your settings to other projects.</p>
<h4>Suitable for all editors</h4>
<p>Use our SEO plugin with all content editors: Elementor, WP Bakery Page Builder and many more. Our tool works best with the official <strong>WordPress block editor</strong>, for which there are dedicated SEO blocks and which provides the best loading times.</p>
<h4>Multilingual optimization</h4>
<p>Add locally relevant keywords to your translations and define individual language settings: For example, the composition of automatic metadata and breadcrumbs can be set differently in English than in French, Spanish or German. We recommend <strong>WPML</strong>.</p>
<h4>WooCommerce & Taxonomies</h4>
<p>Set individual rules for automatic metadata optimization and indexing of your products, categories and keywords. And if you don’t want your tags or author profiles to be indexed in Google & Co., you can exclude them with one click.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>★★★★★ Performant, cleanly developed, excellently designed and easy to use (David, FastWP)</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Perfect for PageSpeed optimization</h3>
<p>DELUCKS SEO is PHP8 ready. Activate only those modules you need and combine our WordPress SEO plugin with <strong>WP Rocket</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Meta data</strong>: Optimize previews in search engines with keywords and create rules for composing meta titles. Get keyword suggestions via autosuggest for this purpose.</li>
<li><strong>Sitemaps</strong>: Create automatically updated blueprints to help search engines index your site: Classic, Image, Video and News sitemaps.</li>
<li><strong>Statistics</strong>: Integrate tracking codes of your web statistics, use automatic event tracking for Google Analytics or activate our SISTRIX API to display your rankings in WordPress.</li>
<li><strong>URLs</strong>: Use Canonical tags and enforce SSL encryption for your website, automatically clean your new URLs from irrelevant stopwords to get found faster.</li>
<li><strong>Breadcrumbs</strong>: Add navigation paths to your website via widget or shortcode to show users and search engines their position within your content and for mobile SEO.</li>
<li><strong>Links</strong> (Premium): Automatically devalue outbound links and have them open in a new browser tab to keep SEO power within your site and lose fewer users.</li>
<li><strong>Microdata</strong> (Premium): Use our Structured Data configurator to make videos, FAQs, recipes, events, jobs etc. visible in search results in the form of Rich Snippets.</li>
<li><strong>Ratings</strong> (Premium): Add our ratings feature to WordPress’ commenting function to stand out in Google search results with stars.</li>
<li><strong>Social sharing</strong> (Premium): Configure CCPA and GDPR compliant plus performance-optimized sharing buttons to make your content easier to share on social media. Customize the previews in social media.</li>
<li><strong>Text optimization</strong> (Premium): Get information on the number of headlines, text length and a checklist of terms to write your texts more relevant by comparing your competitors.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Questions, premium version or support needed? Get all information about our <a href="https://delucks.com/en/wordpress-seo-plugin/" title="https://delucks.com/en/wordpress-seo-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress SEO plugin</a>.</h4>


DELUCKS SEO

The only SEO plugin from Germany for holistic search engine optimization with ChatGPT and Google APIs.

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