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.

SeoMix

Daniel Roch

SEOKEY

<p>SEOKEY’s goal is simple: <strong>to make SEO easier for everyone</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>New in SEOKEY 2.0:</strong> enhanced keyword menu and ALT Editor, OpenGraph and Twitter Card Data</p>
<h3>SEOKEY: the simplest and most effective SEO plugin</h3>
<p>SEOKEY tells you what you need to do next to boost your SEO! Discover our genuine SEO audit tool, our powerful advice for each content, our automatic SEO optimizations and our easy-to-use settings.</p>
<p>Since 2008, we have been improving our SEO expertise for all types of websites: B2C or B2B, for small websites or large international corporations. When it comes to WordPress, we made a straightforward observation: <strong>current SEO plugins are too complex, they don’t guide users in their next actions, and they have a lot of technical SEO weaknesses</strong>.</p>
<p>SEOKEY is the <strong>all-in-one plugin to rank higher in search engine, audit your content, and determine the NEXT action you should take</strong>.</p>
<p>And our SEO plugin contains everything you need to manage your SEO: meta tags, redirects, alt editor, and much more. With the <a href="https://www.seo-key.com" rel="nofollow ugc">SEOKEY PRO plugin</a>, go even further with an enhanced audit, Google bot 404 monitoring, and Search Console connection.</p>
<h3>Why SEOKEY is different?</h3>
<p>We give you all the keys to succeed in Search Engines :</p>
<ul>
<li>A <strong>global SEO audit tool</strong> for WordPress with practical SEO advice and contents analysis</li>
<li><strong>Automatic SEO technical optimizations</strong> without frustrating options</li>
<li>A complete <strong>SEO toolbox</strong> (redirections, image ALT editor, etc.)</li>
<li>A really <strong>easy-to-use interface</strong></li>
<li>All <strong>essential SEO features</strong>: Title, Meta Description, Canonicals, Open Graph and Twitter Card data, Head cleaning and much more</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress SEO audit</h3>
<h4>Global SEO audit for WordPress</h4>
<p>There is no point in getting tips on a single content if you don’t have the whole picture. With SEOKEY, you can <strong>audit all your content in one go</strong> to improve your visibility in Google and other Search Engines!</p>
<p>You can then easily consult all your SEO issues, or see at a glance which content is causing the most problems.</p>
<p>Our audit module is unique because we are the only SEO plugin to analyze 100% of your content, prioritizing URLs and issues to be resolved.</p>
<h4>Advice with real SEO data in SEOKEY PRO</h4>
<p>With PRO version, we go even further with a more detailed analysis of all contents: we give you a <strong>main directive based on real traffic data</strong>: optimize, change the keyword to target, do nothing, wait, etc.</p>
<p>SEOKEY PRO is the only SEO plugin providing a global SEO audit and contents analysis based on real trafic data!</p>
<h4>Individual SEO audit and content analysis for each content</h4>
<p>When you edit a specific content in WordPress, we also provide you with a full SEO content analysis. You will know what you ned to fix.</p>
<p>With PRO version, we also display your SEO data for each content: clics, impressions and visible keywords count</p>
<h3>Automatic SEO technical optimizations</h3>
<p>In WordPress, many SEO optimizations should be active by default. This is our belief as SEO experts since 2008. So why would we force you to check and fill in some options when they should always be active?</p>
<p>That’s why <strong>SEOKEY automatically deploys SEO improvements without any click</strong>: we clean your HTML , we disable date archives, we redirect attachment pages, we convert 404 errors on old cache files to 410 headers, and so on.</p>
<p>Need more information about it? Check here all our <a href="https://www.seo-key.com/features/optimizations/" rel="nofollow ugc">SEO optimizations</a></p>
<h3>Easy-to-use interface for better WordPress SEO</h3>
<p>Unlike other SEO plugins, SEOKEY’s interface is by far the simplest one. We’ve removed all unnecessary options, and simplified the ones that will really improve your visibility.</p>
<p>The result: you can configure and use SEOKEY much faster than with any other SEO plugin.</p>
<p>With our global audit and our individual content analysis, you’ll be able to correct all your content immediately!</p>
<h3>SEO toolbox (redirections, images ALT editor, etc.)</h3>
<p>SEOKEY provides you with all basic features needed in SEO, without installing third-party plugins or the need to upgrade to the PRO version. Our SEO plugin offers a complete WordPress SEO toolbox:</p>
<ul>
<li>easily manage your <strong>301 redirects</strong></li>
<li>an <strong>alternative text editor</strong> to modify them all in one place (and we use these new ALT texts to fix images without one within your contents)</li>
<li>100% automatic generation of your <strong>schema.org markup</strong> (Local Business, Organization or Person, Breadcrumbs, Website)</li>
<li>we create <strong>new management pages for your Post Type archives</strong> if you have any (for example, your shop product page with Woocommerce)</li>
<li>fast and reliable XML sitemap files for all Search engines (Google, Bing and the others). We physically create these files to boost crawling and indexing speed!</li>
</ul>
<h3>SEOKEY WordPress SEO Plugin: PRO version will take you even further!</h3>
<p>With SEOKEY PRO, our audit is more in-depth with a much more in-depth analysis of your content.</p>
<p>In just a few clicks, create and connect to Google’s search console to retrieve your real traffic data and automatically submit your sitemap files.</p>
<p>SEOKEY PRO also improves our advice for each content with data from your Search Console telling you exactly what you need to do!</p>
<p>With this enhanced version, we will also warn you in case of <strong>404 error</strong> detected by Google or <strong>when WordPress generates an automatic 301 redirect</strong> behind your back. With a simple clic, you can fix them!</p>
<h3>Our SEO plugin summarized ?</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>SEOKEY guides you in your SEO actions with a powerful global SEO audit and individual content analysis</strong></li>
<li><strong>SEOKEY automatically corrects many WordPress SEO defects</strong></li>
<li><strong>SEOKEY is the easiest SEO plugin for WordPress</strong></li>
<li><strong>SEOKEY has practical tools for everyday use</strong></li>
</ul>
<h3>Need more info about our WordPress SEO plugin?</h3>
<p>Check our websites:</p>
<ul>
<li>in english <a href="https://www.seo-key.com" rel="nofollow ugc">SEOKEY</a></li>
<li>in french <a href="https://www.seo-key.fr" rel="nofollow ugc">SEOKEY en français</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>WordPress SEO has never been so easy!</p>


SEOKEY – Powerful SEO plugin with Expert Insights and SEO Audit


Great plugin, simple to use, with great help, guides & infos. Audit is THE key and game-changer functionality. Great support as well.


Finally a SEO plugin for everybody!


I am very satisfied with SEOKey. The plugin is didactic and guides us step by step to optimise the content of our websites. I particularly like the tool that lets you audit your website: SEOKey gives you all the advice you need to correct what's wrong. I now recommend SEOKey to all my customers.


A very good SEO plugin


Clairement plus simple que les autres plugins utilisés précédemment. L'outil de mise en place est didactique et permet d'activer les bons paramètres en moins d'une minute.Après l'activation, un diagnostique est effectué pour savoir ce qu'il reste à améliorer "concrètement" à la main, dans le contenu (les étapes que seul un humain peut faire).Bref, je recommande.


Didactique et plus simple que les autres


I think this is the first and only plugin that really understand what your site needs, and it does with the softness of a baby's skin: you touch it, you love it!


Very light and useful


For once an SEO plugin is not a gas factory, everything is well explained, it’s a pleasure! Special mention for the very well explained audit generation.


Super easy to use 🤩


SEOKEY est une extension très efficace qui fonctionne parfaitement sur mes sites. Je ne peux que vous la recommander !


Une excellente extension SEO !

Improve SEO rankings with a powerful SEO Audit, automatic optimizations and Expert Insights. SEOKEY is the easiest and most powerful SEO plugin!

Yoast SEO: Search Index Purge vs SEOKEY – Powerful SEO plugin with Expert Insights and SEO Audit