[Plugin: Yoast SEO] noindex images
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Sorry about this but I am going to resubmit the question with the proper heading and hope I can get the info I am after.
I am using Yoast SEO and no matter what I do I can’t seem to get images off of the sitemap, GWT is saying 5 submitted. Can someone tell me where I am going wrong or lead me on the right path as I don’t want them indexed.
So what I finished up doing is this:
In Yoast I went to each individual image and under advanced I made it noindex, from what I have read this should do the trick.
Under Youast SEO > Advanced > Permalinks there is:
Redirect attachment URL’s to parent post URL.
Should I make this redirect as well? also once I have made the changes should I resubmit my sitemap or does Yoast do that straight away?
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I was wondering about the same thing. After reading about Yoast WordPress SEO, I got images removed from the sitemap by checking Not in Sitemap for Media (attachment) option under Sitemap XML > Post Types tab.
I think the option Redirect attachment URL’s to parent post URL does not really prevent images from being crawled/indexed. As long as WordPress treat the media attachment post type like real posts, that seems to be a way to prevent the media attachment posts from being accessed/indexed, thus redirecting to the posts that have that specific image attached to them.
I also wanted to make sure some images on my website were not indexed by search engines, and I was drawn to this: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35308?hl=en
So under Yoast WordPress SEO settings, I went to Tools > File Editor (this allows you to edit your robots.txt file). Then I’ve followed Google instructions, and I ended up with something like the following: see screenshot.
I believe this is the proper way to completely remove images from the search results.
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