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  • Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    Yes, that is the expected behavior of the search index purge plugin. Installing this plugin will do the following two things:

      Every attachment URL will return a 410 status code.
      A static XML sitemap, containing all the attachment URLs on a given site will be created. The post modified date for each of those URLs is the activation date and time of the plugin.

    The XML sitemap with recent post modified date will make sure that Google spiders all those URLs again. The 410 status code will make sure Google takes them out of its search results in the fastest way possible.

    After six months the attachment URLs should be gone from the search results. You should then remove the search index purge plugin, and keep the redirect setting of the attachment URLs set to “Yes”.

    After removing the search index purge plugin the attachment sitemap will no longer be included in the sitemap index (as long as the redirect attachment URLs is set to “Yes”).

    Thread Starter rickkloekke

    (@rickkloekke)

    “After removing the search index purge plugin the attachment sitemap will no longer be included in the sitemap index (as long as the redirect attachment URLs is set to “Yes”).”

    Thanks!

    You’re welcome!

    Tagging this as resolved. No further questions/concerns.

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