Hundreds of pages indexed (attachment pages help)

Turns out these are actually unattached images. Anything I can do about this?

@silverback123 As for your question regarding installing Yoast SEO and AIO SEO simultaneously, we don’t recommend that as having two plugins managing SEO settings can frequently cause a conflict with each other.

As for attachment pages and their images, the Yoast SEO plugin does offer the feature to redirect attachment pages to the image itself. To set the attachment pages to redirect to the image you would need to perform the following steps.

In WordPress go to SEO>Search Appearance>Media
Set ‘Redirect attachment URLs to the attachment itself?’ to Yes
Click ‘Save Changes’

In regards to your comment about the images being unattached, could you please clarify what you mean or give an example link?

I’ve attached all unattached images to a draft post (As this was quickest solution to getting rid of hundreds of unattached images) but now I need to get these pages deindexed ASAP. Can I use your add on plugin to do so or do I need to switch to Yoast first?

I already had redirect to attachment pages in AIO, but the problem was all of the ones that wasnt attached. Really grateful for the reply.

P.S The plugin I’m referring to is yoast-seo-search-index-purge

Can I use this on its own? If not, do I need to migrate AIO to Yoast first, and then use yoast-seo-search-index-purge? Basically I want to deindex about 500 pages ASAP as some are showing as sitelinks when my company name is searched which looks really bad.

Hi @silverback123,

No, the Search Index Purge plugin does not work without Yoast SEO. The plugin is using Yoast SEO’s sitemap index and creates a sitemap for the attachment pages (so Google re-crawls all these URLs), then sets a 410 HTTP header status to each attachment page URL, so that it gets removed from Google’s index ASAP.

That being said, if you’re going to use the Search Index Purge Plugin, you will need Yoast SEO too.

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