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.

Noor Alam

<p>WordPress has a nice media library option in which you can upload images very easily. While uploading images most of us just totally ignore the alt tags. Alt tag is an important part of your image. It describes what your image is about.</p>
<p>When you publish a post/page you can directly view the image. The image might be understandable to you when you take a look at it. But for the crawler it’s not. The crawler does not understand the image. It reads the alt tag and tries to understand the image. So if your alt tag is empty or not relevant to your topic it’s pretty much useless in search engine.</p>
<p><a href="https://noorsplugin.com/wordpress-image-seo-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Image SEO</a> allows you to optimize your blog images. It automatically fills out the missing alt tags of your images.</p>
<h4>WordPress Image SEO Plugin Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Optimize your WordPress blog images for SEO.</li>
<li>Change the alt and title tags of your images automatically.</li>
<li>Improve search engine ranking by using more meaningful alt tags.</li>
<li>Efficiently manage the alt tags of all of your post images.</li>
</ul>
<h4>WordPress Image SEO Plugin Usage</h4>
<p>Once you have installed the plugin go to <strong>Settings->WP Image SEO</strong> on your WP dashboard. It will take you to the <strong>General Settings</strong> menu of the plugin</p>
<p>In the <strong>General Settings</strong> menu there are various options that you can configure.</p>
<ul>
<li>ALT attribute – It allows you to change the alt attributes</li>
<li>TITLE attribute – It allows you to change the title attributes</li>
</ul>
<p>You can either directly enter a text for the ALT and TITLE attributes or use the following tags:</p>
<ul>
<li>%name – It allows you to automatically replace the alt or title tag with the name of the image</li>
<li>%title – It allows you to automatically replace the alt or title tag with the title of the current post</li>
</ul>
<p>You need to enable the following options to change the alt and title attributes automatically:</p>
<ul>
<li>Override default WordPress image alt tag</li>
<li>Override default WordPress image title</li>
</ul>
<h4>Example</h4>
<p>If you have an image named “McLaren.jpg” in a post titled “Car Image”:</p>
<ol>
<li>Setting alt attribute to “%name %title” will produce alt=”McLaren Car Image”</li>
<li>Setting title attribute to “%name image” will produce title=”McLaren image”</li>
</ol>
<p>For detailed documentation please visit the <a href="https://noorsplugin.com/wordpress-image-seo-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Image SEO</a> plugin page</p>


WordPress Image SEO

WordPress Image SEO plugin allows you to improve the structures of your site images and make them more search engine friendly.

Yoast SEO: Search Index Purge vs WordPress Image SEO