When the bug became known at the time, the error was corrected. However, apparently without switching the button again. Why didn’t Yoast automatically return the buttons to their original position?
In Google Search Console I read now that there are more than 3800 pages. I only created 1050 of them. The rest are attachment pages.
My question now is: how do I get rid of those 2700 pages? Hundreds of them are in Google’s index. The button in Yoast is now off and the attachment (media) pages can no longer be reached in the Yoast sitemap. Yoast had made 3 sitemaps for those attachment pages. If i click upon those sitemaps, it result in an error page. What happen next with those attachment (media) pages? In short, what can I do best?
]]>We’ve been using the Yoast SEO plugin for a while, and about 7-8 months ago, we activated the option to redirect media URLs to file URL.
We also have Search Index Purge plugin activated. However, Google Search Console keeps on returning the “Submitted URL not found (404)” error for our attachment URLs. At the beginning, we though it’d take some time, but far from getting better, the number of URLs affected by this error is growing.
How can we stop this from happening?
Thanks
]]>>>> https://xxx/tani-laptop-hp/
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> 301 Moved Permanently
> ——————————————–
Status: 301 Moved Permanently
Code: 301
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 19:17:47 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: close
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.2
Set-Cookie: SERVERID97864=520158|Xq3HX|Xq3HX; path=/
X-Redirect-By: Yoast SEO
Location: https://xxx/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/tani-laptop-hp.jpg
X-IPLB-Instance: 28113
I’ve set attachment pages to NOINDEX and they are still indexing, I hope they go away!
I want to REMOVE them and NEVER have them EVER AGAIN!
But now, I do not see any way to stop them from creating or delete them out of existence.
Please advise, thanks!
]]>I’m using Jetpack’s “Related Posts” feature and have the option “Highlight related content with a heading” enabled.
This results in an empty “Related” heading showing on attachment pages (without showing any related posts – which is expected). When I disable the “Highlight” option the heading obviously disappears, but I figure this is not how it’s supposed to be. 
Thanks for looking into it
Alexander.
as my attachment pages now showing in google results, how do i stop showing in google results? ]]>
When I looked at the google console I found out that in mid March Google indexed 4,000 pages of thin content. In the past (before V7.X) these pages were redirected to the post itself and NON of the sitemaps had links to them.
Who is the clown in the Yoast team that decided to cancel this redirection that worked for years? Who is the clown who decided to include them in Sitemaps?
Everyone knows that these are pages that generated by WordPress and they are useless for search engines.
Why did you make the change? It was working fine for everyone.
Now I am left to cleanup the mess that they created and I am facing a long wait until the penalty is lifted – this is a HUGE loss for my site.
There are countless of posts in forums about this issue and I believe that lots of sites are going to get the penalty soon.
Be very very careful
Also – anyone who is facing this issue – you now must use “noindex” on these pages to tell Google to remove them. If you just redirect them they will stay in the Google index for months.
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