Still getting crawl errors and 404s with image attachments

  • Resolved richarddeepdish

    (@richarddeepdish)


    5 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,
    I was affected by the Yoast bug last year. I made sure my media settings were set to ‘yes’, installed the purge plugin, and left it to do its thing for the recommended timeframe of six months. That was in January, so nine months ago.

    Upon checking Search Console today, I noticed the problem has not been resolved.
    – I currently have 452 ‘Submitted URL has crawl issues’ errors, all of which are image attachments.
    – I also have 66 ‘Submitted URL not found (404)’, again, all of which are image attachments.
    – The total number of errors is static, although some have transferred from the crawl type of error to the 404 error, which I assume is a good thing?

    My questions: should I keep the purge plugin running? Is it actually working? Should I be worried about having 500+ errors which don’t seem to be going away?
    Many thanks in advance.

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  • Plugin Support amboutwe

    (@amboutwe)

    The aim of the?Yoast SEO: Search Index Purge?plugin is to purge attachment URLs from the search index by making all of your website’s attachment URLs return an HTTP 410 (content is gone) status. Google has approved of our method to solve this issue in the fastest way possible.

    That being said, Google Search Console may notify you of an increase in crawl?errors. This is to be expected when a large quantity of previously indexable URLs suddenly?return?410 status codes. You do not have to do anything and Google will eventually drop the attachment URLs from the search results since they don’t exist anymore.

    Plugin Support Jerlyn

    (@jerparx)

    Closed. No further questions.

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