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.

Julio Potier

Remi Corson

Vincent Dubroeucq

Aurélien Denis

Benjamin Denis

Thomas Deneulin

SEOPress

Mickaël Gris

<h3>Best SEO plugin for WordPress fully integrated with all page builders and themes!</h3>
<h3>Now with AI (GPT-5, GPT-4o Mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4, GPT-3.5-Turbo & DeepSeek AI) to automagically generate meta title, description and alternative texts for images!</h3>
<p>SEOPress is a powerful WordPress SEO plugin to optimize your SEO, boost your traffic, improve social sharing, build custom HTML and XML Sitemaps, create optimized breadcrumbs, add schemas / Google Structured data types, manage 301 redirections and so much more.</p>
<p>✔ <strong><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/page-builders-integration/" rel="nofollow ugc">Universal SEO metabox</a>: edit all your SEO from any page builder / theme builder. No more back and forth between your editor and the WordPress administration</strong><br />
✔ <strong>No advertising, no footprints, white label, in backend AND frontend</strong><br />
✔ <strong>Content analysis to help you write content optimized for search engines with unlimited target keywords</strong><br />
✔ <strong><a href="https://www.seopress.org/solutions/migrate-from/" rel="nofollow ugc">Import your post and term metadatas</a> from other SEO plugins or CSV file in 1 click</strong><br />
✔ <strong><a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-seopress" rel="nofollow ugc">Translated into 27 languages (and counting)</a></strong><br />
✔ <strong>Trusted by over 350,000 WordPress websites since 2017</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.seopress.org/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Buy SEOPress PRO: only $49 / year / 1 site</strong></a></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/4ysKFVr_nu0?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>
<p><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/" rel="nofollow ugc">Features</a> | <a href="https://www.seopress.org/solutions/migrate-from/" rel="nofollow ugc">Migrate</a> | <a href="https://www.seopress.org/wordpress-seo-plugins/pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO</a> | <a href="https://www.seopress.org/integrations/" rel="nofollow ugc">Integrations</a> | <a href="https://www.seopress.org/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">Support</a> | <a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/seopress-white-label/" rel="nofollow ugc">White Label</a> | <a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/openai/" rel="nofollow ugc">AI</a></p>
<h3>Why SEOPress is the best WordPress SEO plugin?</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/seopress-productivity/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Save time</strong></a>: you prefer to work with Excel or Google Spreadsheets? No problem, you can import / export your metadata from CSV files with SEOPress PRO in few clicks!</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Save money</strong></a>: SEOPress PRO is available for $49 / year / 1 site. Go unlimited sites for just $149 / year!</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>All in one SEO plugin</strong></a>: comes with all the features you need to optimize the SEO of your WordPress site. No need to install additional extensions to manage redirects, schemas, XML sitemaps… You reduce the risk of conflicts and maintenance costs. You don’t need a special feature? Deactivate it with one click without losing your configuration. Child’s play !</li>
<li><strong>Easy AND ready to use</strong>: you doesn’t need to know SEO or code to use SEOPress. Most of the parameters are automatically set. And thanks to our installation wizard, configuring SEOPress has never been easier. To go further, we provide many <a href="https://www.seopress.org/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">free tutorials</a> and <a href="https://www.seopress.org/support/ebooks/" rel="nofollow ugc">ebooks to learn SEO</a> in order to better understand how to position your content on search engines.</li>
</ul>
<h3>SEOPress Free Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Installation wizard</strong> to quickly setup your site</li>
<li><strong>Content analysis</strong> with unlimited keywords to help you write optimized content for search engines</li>
<li><strong>Mobile / Desktop Google Preview</strong> to see how your post will looks like in Google search results</li>
<li><strong>Facebook & X (ex-Twitter) Social Preview</strong> to see how your post will looks like on social media to increase conversions</li>
<li><strong>Titles</strong> (with <a href="https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/manage-titles-meta-descriptions/" rel="nofollow ugc">dynamic variables</a>: custom fields, terms taxonomie…)</li>
<li><strong>Meta descriptions</strong> (with dynamic variables too)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/social-media/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Open Graph and X (ex-Twitter) Cards</strong></a> to improve social media sharing (Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, X (ex-Twitter), Pinterest, WhatsApp…)</li>
<li><strong>Google Knowledge Graph</strong></li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/google-analytics/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Google Analytics</strong> and <strong>Matomo</strong></a> with downloads tracking, custom dimensions, ip anonymization, remarketing, demographics and interest reporting, cross-domain tracking…(<a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/seopress-white-label/" rel="nofollow ugc">GDPR compatibility</a>)</li>
<li><strong>Microsoft Clarity integration</strong>: to capture session recordings, get instant heatmaps and powerful Insights for Free. Know how people interact with your site to improve user experience and conversions</li>
<li><strong>Custom Canonical URL</strong></li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/manage-meta-robots/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Meta robots</strong></a> (noindex, nofollow, noimageindex, nosnippet)</li>
<li>Build your <a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/sitemaps/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>custom XML Sitemap</strong></a> to improve search indexing</li>
<li><strong>Image XML Sitemaps</strong> to improve search indexing for Google Images</li>
<li>Build your custom <strong>HTML Sitemap</strong> to enhanced navigation for visitors and improve search indexing</li>
<li>Link your social media accounts to your site</li>
<li><strong>Redirections</strong> in post, pages, custom post types</li>
<li>Remove /category/ in URLs</li>
<li>Remove /product-category/ in URLs</li>
<li>Remove ?replytocom to avoid duplicate content</li>
<li>Redirect attachment pages to post parent</li>
<li>Redirect attachment pages to their file URL</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/image-seo/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Image SEO</strong></a>: Automatically set the image title / alt / caption / description</li>
<li>Import / Export settings from site to site.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/google-indexing-api-with-seopress/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Google Indexing API and IndexNow API (Bing / Yandex)</strong></a> to quickly index its content in these search engines</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/solutions/migrate-from/" rel="nofollow ugc">Import posts and terms metadata</a> from Yoast SEO, All In One SEO, SEO Framework, Rank Math, SEO Ultimate, WP Meta SEO, Premium SEO Pack, Squirrly and many other SEO plugins</li>
<li>…</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.seopress.org/wordpress-seo-plugins/free/features/" rel="nofollow ugc">Check out all SEOPress Free features here</a></p>
<h3>SEOPress PRO: to go further with your SEO</h3>
<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/zxGCY-bJYwE?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>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/openai/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Use Artificial Intelligence (GPT-4o, GPT-4 Turbo / Vision and GPT 3.5 Turbo) to generate SEO metadata and alternative texts for image files. Bulk actions supported.</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/site-audit/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Site Audit: Detect technical issues that could harm your site’s SEO directly from your WordPress administration.</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/seo-alerts/" rel="nofollow ugc">Receive SEO alerts to prevent breaking your SEO before it’s too late</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/import-metadata-from-a-csv-file-with-seopress-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Import / export metadata</strong></a> (titles, open graph, robots…) from / to CSV file</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/sitemaps/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Video XML Sitemap</strong></a> to improve rankings in video search results. YouTube videos are automatically added.</li>
<li>Internal linking suggestions</li>
<li>Inspect URL with Google Search Console: get details about crawling, indexing, mobile compatibility, schemas and more.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/google-search-console/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Search Console integration</strong></a>: get insights from your post / page / post type list with clicks, positions, CTR and impressions.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/google-suggest/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Google Suggestions in Content Analysis</strong></a> to find the top 10 Google suggestions instantly. This is useful if you want to work with the long tail technique.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/google-structured-data-types/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Google Structured Data types</strong> (schema.org)</a>:
<ol>
<li>article</li>
<li>local business</li>
<li>service</li>
<li>how-to</li>
<li>FAQ</li>
<li>course</li>
<li>recipe</li>
<li>software application</li>
<li>video</li>
<li>event</li>
<li>product</li>
<li>job</li>
<li>simple review</li>
<li>custom schema</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Schemas</strong> with advanced conditions (AND, OR, Post types, taxonomies)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/breadcrumbs/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Breadcrumbs</strong></a> optimized with Schema.org, A11Y ready.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/google-analytics/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Google Analytics Stats in Dashboard</strong></a> to quickly see your metrics without leaving your site</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/local-seo/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Google Local Business</strong></a> to boost your local store</li>
<li><strong>Broken link checker (SEOPress BOT)</strong>: scan all your links in content to find errors (e.g. 404…)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/woocommerce-seo/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>WooCommerce</strong></a>: Product Global Identifiers type and Product Global Identifiers fields to WooCommerce metabox for product schema (barcode), disable crawling on cart page, checkout page, customer account pages, add OG Price / OG Currency for better sharing and more</li>
<li><strong>Easy Digital Downloads</strong>: add OG Price / OG Currency, remove EDD meta generator</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/breadcrumbs/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Custom Breadcrumbs</strong></a> for single post types / term taxonomy</li>
<li><strong>Google Page Speed Insights</strong> to analyse your site performances on Mobile / Desktop + your Core Web Vitals</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/google-analytics/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Google Enhanced Ecommerce for WooCommerce</strong></a>: measure purchases, singular product view details, additions to and removals from shopping carts</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/htaccess-robots-txt/" rel="nofollow ugc">Edit your <strong>robots.txt</strong></a> file from the admin (multisite / multidomain ready)</li>
<li><strong>Google News Sitemap</strong> to get your posts on Google News</li>
<li><strong>404 Monitoring</strong>: Monitor your 404 errors to improve user experience, performances and increase the crawl budget allocated by Google</li>
<li><strong>Redirect 404 to homepage/custom url automatically</strong> with custom status code (301, 302, 307, 410 or 451)</li>
<li>Email notifications on 404</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/301-redirects/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Redirect manager</strong></a>: create unlimited 301, 302, 307, 410 and 451 redirections. Regular expressions supported. Import / export redirections to CSV or htaccess file.</li>
<li>Import redirections using CSV</li>
<li>Import redirections from Redirections plugin (via a JSON file)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/htaccess-robots-txt/" rel="nofollow ugc">Edit your <strong>htaccess file</strong></a> from the admin</li>
<li>Easily customize your <strong>RSS feeds</strong></li>
<li>…</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.seopress.org/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Buy SEOPress PRO now!</strong></a></p>
<h3>WooCommerce SEO (SEOPress PRO required)</h3>
<p>We support WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads for e-commerce sites.</p>
<ul>
<li>Price and currency meta tags to improve social sharing</li>
<li>XML sitemaps for products</li>
<li>Support for WooCommerce product images and WooCommerce image galleries for the XML sitemap</li>
<li>Centralized way to set noindex meta robots tags on pages like cart, checkout…</li>
<li>Remove WooCommerce generator meta tag in the source code</li>
<li>Create manual and/or automatic “product” schemas in JSON-LD to increase visibility in Google search results</li>
<li>WooCommerce support for our breadcrumbs</li>
<li>Global dynamic tags to insert in your metas titles / descriptions</li>
<li>Product Global Identifiers type and Product Global Identifiers fields to WooCommerce metabox for product schema (barcode)</li>
<li>…</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.seopress.org/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Increase your sales now!</strong></a></p>
<h3><a href="https://www.seopress.org/features/page-builders-integration/" rel="nofollow ugc">Universal SEO metabox</a>: edit your metadata from any page builder / editor</h3>
<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/sf0ocG7vQMM?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>Elementor + SEOPress: perfect combo!</h3>
<p>We provide deep integration with Elementor page builder UI, see below:</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/oC5QZ0_TH_g?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>SEOPress Insights: Off-site SEO plugin to track your rankings and backlinks in WordPress</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Keyword rank tracker</strong>: 52 Google Search locations available</li>
<li>Track <strong>50 keywords</strong> per site daily</li>
<li>Track your <strong>competitors</strong>: who ranks first on your keywords</li>
<li>Monitor and analyze your <strong>backlinks</strong> weekly</li>
<li><strong>Google trends</strong> to find new and relevant ideas for your content marketing strategy</li>
<li>Your <strong>data accessible for life</strong>: export it to a CSV, PDF or Excel file. Sort, order, filter your data right from your WordPress.</li>
<li>Receive <strong>email and Slack alerts</strong> for your rankings to easily follow them</li>
</ul>
<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/p6v9Jd5lRIU?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>
<p><a href="https://www.seopress.org/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Buy SEOPress Insights now!</strong></a></p>
<h3>Developers will love SEOPress!</h3>
<ul>
<li>Hundreds of hooks are available to extend SEOPress. <a href="https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Browse them all here</a>!</li>
<li>Plus we have a <a href="https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/get-started-with-the-seopress-rest-api/" rel="nofollow ugc">REST API</a> to build static websites.</li>
<li>Finally, <a href="https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/seopress-wp-cli/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>WP CLI commands</strong></a> are available.</li>
</ul>


SEOPress – On-site SEO & Analytics

Keeps users informed on features and updates.

Great Communication

SEOPress es el plugin de SEO para WordPress perfecto por su buen equilibrio entre sencillez y ajustes avanzados.

El mejor plugin de SEO para todo tipo de usuarios


Tested and actually quite satisfied, but unfortunately images were not displayed anymore on my blog after installation, so had to uninstall the plugin again.



Update: Good support, helped to fix the issue which even was not caused by the plugin.


Nice, but pictures are gone


Just installed this plugin on my third site today, only took a few seconds to set up. It works well and the default settings are basically exactly what I want. Good on performance and doesn’t take over the dashboard. Well done! 🧡


It works!


Je suis passé à SEOPress il y a peu dans sa version Pro et j’en suis très satisfait. L’essentiel est là, simple et efficace. Je recommande !


SEOPress prend soin de mon SEO !

Great plugin!


The last ±10 years I used Yoast SEO (free version) for all the websites I manage (±200). Yoast is still good, but for now SEOPress is a much better solution:- More (free) features- It doesn't slow down your WP Dashboard- The Premium version is very affordable (if you need to use it)



Benjamin you did a great job the during last years, keep on the good work!


Easy to use interface and very complete


Seo press è a mio avviso il miglior plugin per la gestione della SEO su un sito web. Mi è molto utile in particolare nelle strategie per ottenere un knowledge panel di Google con la creazione di schemi personalizzati per l'organizzazione dei dati strutturati delle entità.



Ve lo consiglio per la vostra strategia SEO.


Miglior plugin per la SEO e per i knowledge panel di Google

The best SEO plugin


I never thought an SEO work can be that easy for a newbie. Thanks!


Easy-peasy setup


While it may not be the most polished user interface, it does exactly what it needs to do and has a lower footprint and higher performance than many other solutions. Also, a lot less cross-promotion and in-WordPress advertising.



The Pro version is very cost-effective, especially if you need local SEO, e-commerce, video, or other things that require premium upgrades or add-ons using other plugins.



The built-in tools allowed me to get rid of several other plugins too.


Low-footprint SEO


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SEOPress, a simple, fast and powerful all in one SEO plugin for WordPress. Rank higher in search engines, fully white label. Now with AI.

Yoast SEO: Search Index Purge vs SEOPress – On-site SEO & Analytics