Joost de Valk

Yoast

Jip Moors

Anton Timmermans

Taco Verdonschot

Omar Reiss

The purpose of this SEO plugin is to purge attachment URLs out of Google’s index as fast as possible. This helps sites 
that might have suffered from having too many thin content pages in the search index by removing them in the fastest 
way possible.
<h3>What does this plugin do?</h3>
This plugin makes all your attachment URLs return an HTTP 410 status. It then creates an XML sitemap with a recent last 
modified date, containing all those URLs. The XML sitemap with recent post modified date makes Google spider all those 
URLs again. The 410 status code makes sure Google takes them out of its search results in the fastest way possible.
With a nice trick, we also show end users the actual attachment image, so the user experience is not as poor as when 
they see an error page.
<h3>Yoast SEO required</h3>
This plugin is an extension to <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/" rel="ugc">Yoast SEO</a>. It requires it to work.
<h3>How long should you run this plugin?</h3>
After 6 months the attachment URLs should be gone from the search results. If you then remove the plugin, and keep 
Yoast SEO’s redirect setting on “Yes”, you have the best long term behavior for attachment URLs: to redirect to the 
actual attachment.
<h3>Does Google condone this?</h3>
This method has been discussed with and OK’d by Google.
<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.

JS Morisset

<h3>Complete Schema Markup and Meta Tags for WordPress</h3>
Present your content at its best for social sites and search results, no matter how URLs are shared, reshared, messaged, posted, embedded, or crawled.

The most comprehensive and accurate Schema markup plugin for WooCommerce products.
Supports over 500 different Schema types and sub-types (including Schema Event, Product Group, and the Service type for WooCommerce products).
Provides complete Schema markup and meta tags for:
<ul>
<li>Facebook / Open Graph</li>
<li>Google Knowledge Graph</li>
<li>Google Merchant Feed XML</li>
<li>Google Rich Results / Rich Snippets</li>
<li>Image and Video SEO</li>
<li>Instagram Catalog Feed XMLs</li>
<li>Meta (Facebook and Instagram) Catalog Feed XMLs</li>
<li>Mobile Web Browsers</li>
<li>oEmbed for LinkedIn, Discord, and Drupal</li>
<li>Pinterest Rich Pins</li>
<li>Schema JSON-LD Markup</li>
<li>Slack</li>
<li>WhatsApp and Messaging Apps</li>
<li>WordPress REST API</li>
<li>WordPress Sitemaps XML</li>
<li>X (Twitter) Cards</li>
</ul>

Fixes all Google Rich Results and Google Merchant errors, including:
<ul>
<li>A value for the headline field is required</li>
<li>A value for the image field is required</li>
<li>A value for the logo field is required</li>
<li>A value for the publisher field is required</li>
<li>Either “price” or “priceSpecification” should be specified (in “offers”)</li>
<li>Invalid value in field “priceSpecification”</li>
<li>The aggregateRating field is recommended</li>
<li>The brand field is recommended</li>
<li>The headline field is recommended</li>
<li>The image field is recommended</li>
<li>The review field is recommended</li>
<li>Missing field “address”</li>
<li>Missing field “aggregateRating”</li>
<li>Missing field “brand”</li>
<li>Missing field “businessDays”</li>
<li>Missing field “cutoffTime”</li>
<li>Missing field “deliveryTime”</li>
<li>Missing field “hasMerchantReturnPolicy” (in “offers”)</li>
<li>Missing field “image”</li>
<li>Missing field “priceRange”</li>
<li>Missing field “review”</li>
<li>Missing field “shippingDetails” (in “offers”)</li>
<li>Missing field “telephone”</li>
<li>No global identifier provided (e.g. gtin mpn isbn)</li>
<li>Not a known valid target type for the itemReviewed property</li>
<li>Price Mismatched value (page crawl): (price [price])</li>
</ul>
Optimized image sizes for social sites and search engines:
<ul>
<li>Commerce Manager Catalog Feed XML (Facebook and Instagram)</li>
<li>Google Merchant Feed XML</li>
<li>Open Graph (Facebook and oEmbed)</li>
<li>Pinterest Pin It</li>
<li>Schema 1:1 (Google Rich Results)</li>
<li>Schema 4:3 (Google Rich Results)</li>
<li>Schema 16:9 (Google Rich Results)</li>
<li>Schema Thumbnail</li>
<li>Video Preview Image</li>
<li>X (Twitter) Summary Card</li>
<li>X (Twitter) Summary Card Large Image</li>
</ul>
Reads additional information from active plugins, including:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/co-authors-plus/" rel="ugc">Co-Authors Plus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/" rel="ugc">Elementor Website Builder</a></li>
<li>Gravity Forms</li>
<li>Gravity View</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/" rel="ugc">Jetpack</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack-boost/" rel="ugc">Jetpack Boost</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/judgeme-product-reviews-woocommerce/" rel="ugc">Judge.me Product Reviews for WooCommerce</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-retina-2x/" rel="ugc">Perfect Images</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/perfect-woocommerce-brands/" rel="ugc">Perfect Brands for WooCommerce</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/" rel="ugc">Polylang</a></li>
<li>Product GTIN (EAN, UPC, ISBN) for WooCommerce</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/publishpress-authors" rel="ugc">PublishPress Authors</a></li>
<li>qTranslate-XT</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/rate-my-post/" rel="ugc">Rate my Post</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-job-board/" rel="ugc">Simple Job Board</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/" rel="ugc">The Events Calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/" rel="ugc">Ultimate Member</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a></li>
<li>WooCommerce Brands</li>
<li>WooCommerce Currency Switcher</li>
<li>WooCommerce UPC, EAN, and ISBN</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-job-manager/" rel="ugc">WP Job Manager</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postratings/" rel="ugc">WP-PostRatings</a></li>
<li>WP Product Review</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-recipe-maker/" rel="ugc">WP Recipe Maker</a></li>
<li>WPML</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/yith-woocommerce-brands-add-on/" rel="ugc">YITH WooCommerce Brands Add-on</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/yotpo-social-reviews-for-woocommerce/" rel="ugc">Yotpo Social Reviews for WooCommerce</a></li>
</ul>
Supports additional WooCommerce product attributes:
<ul>
<li>Product Adult Type</li>
<li>Product Age Group</li>
<li>Product Availability</li>
<li>Product Brand</li>
<li>Product Google Category ID</li>
<li>Product Color</li>
<li>Product Condition</li>
<li>Product Currency</li>
<li>Product Energy Rating</li>
<li>Product Fluid Volume</li>
<li>Product GTIN-14</li>
<li>Product GTIN-13 (EAN)</li>
<li>Product GTIN-12 (UPC)</li>
<li>Product GTIN-8</li>
<li>Product GTIN</li>
<li>Product Net Height</li>
<li>Product ISBN</li>
<li>Product Net Len. / Depth</li>
<li>Product Material</li>
<li>Product MPN</li>
<li>Product Min Advert Price</li>
<li>Product Pattern</li>
<li>Product Price</li>
<li>Product Price Type</li>
<li>Product SKU</li>
<li>Product Shipping Height</li>
<li>Product Shipping Length</li>
<li>Product Shipping Weight</li>
<li>Product Shipping Width</li>
<li>Product Size</li>
<li>Product Size Group</li>
<li>Product Size System</li>
<li>Product Target Gender</li>
<li>Product Net Weight</li>
<li>Product Net Width</li>
</ul>
Optionally improves the structured data markup of other SEO plugins:
WPSSO Core and its add-ons can also run in combination with other SEO plugins to improve their performance and structured data markup.
<ul>
<li>All in One SEO Pack</li>
<li>Rank Math SEO</li>
<li>SEOPress</li>
<li>The SEO Framework</li>
<li>WP Meta SEO</li>
<li>Yoast SEO</li>
</ul>
Premium edition can retrieve data from service APIs automatically, including:
<ul>
<li>Bitly Short URL</li>
<li>DLMY.App Short URL</li>
<li>Facebook Video Data</li>
<li>Gravatar Image Data</li>
<li>Judge.me Review Data</li>
<li>Ow.ly Short URL</li>
<li>Shopper Approved Review Data</li>
<li>Slideshare Presentation Data</li>
<li>Soundcloud Track Data</li>
<li>Stamped.io Review Data</li>
<li>TinyURL Short URL</li>
<li>Vimeo Video Data</li>
<li>Wistia Video Data</li>
<li>WP Media Library Video Block Data</li>
<li>WP Media Library Video Shortcode Data</li>
<li>Your Own URL Shortener (YOURLS) Short URL</li>
<li>YouTube Video and Playlist Data</li>
</ul>

WPSSO Core – Complete Schema Markup and Meta Tags

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