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.

tropicalista

<p>This plugin display your Search Console analytics data in the WordPress dashboard and adds the verification code of <strong>Google Search Console</strong>, to your site. You can see <strong>Clicks</strong>, <strong>Posistions</strong>, <strong>CTR</strong> and <strong>Impressions</strong>.</p>
<p>A nice full-width dashboard is provided out of the box.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r-BxQ_82sdM?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Easily insert <strong>Google Search Console metatag</strong> to verify site ownership</li>
<li>WordPress widget chart (<strong>position|clicks|impressions|CTR</strong>)</li>
<li>Filter date (14|30|60 days and custom dates)</li>
<li>Beautiful full width chart on admin page (<strong>position|clicks|impressions|CTR</strong>)</li>
<li>Table with all your keywords (<strong>position|clicks|impressions|CTR</strong>)</li>
<li>Add metabox on pages/posts to show performance</li>
<li>Full report with all data</li>
<li>Filter by page</li>
<li>Filter by query</li>
<li>Filter by country</li>
<li>Filter by device</li>
<li>Full report with all sitemap</li>
<li>Full report with all site errors</li>
<li>Superfast</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>CONTRIBUTE</strong></p>
<p>Search Console is open source and you can <a href="https://github.com/Tropicalista/search-console" rel="nofollow ugc">contribute here</a>.</p>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>Search Console uses <a href="https://appsero.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Appsero</a> SDK to collect some telemetry data upon user’s confirmation. This helps us to troubleshoot problems faster & make product improvements.</p>
<p>Appsero SDK <strong>does not gather any data by default.</strong> The SDK only starts gathering basic telemetry data <strong>when a user allows it via the admin notice</strong>. We collect the data to ensure a great user experience for all our users.</p>
<p>Integrating Appsero SDK <strong>DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY</strong> start gathering data, <strong>without confirmation from users in any case.</strong></p>
<p>Learn more about how <a href="https://appsero.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Appsero collects and uses this data</a>.</p>
<h3>WHAT’S NEXT</h3>
<p>If you like this plugin, then consider checking out our other projects:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/formello" rel="ugc">Formello</a>: a form builder to collect leads, newsletter signup, contact form and more.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/popper" rel="ugc">Popper</a>: a popup builder to increase leads with exit intent.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mortgage" rel="ugc">Mortgage Calculator</a>: a mortgage calculator block for Gutenberg.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/pdf-embed" rel="ugc">Pdf Embed</a>: a simple block for Gutenberg to embed a PDF using official Adobe Embed API.</li>
</ul>


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