The purpose of this SEO plugin is to purge URLs out of Google's index as fast as possible.
Activate the Yoast SEO Search Index Purge plugin through 'Plugins WordPress.
The plugin takes over Search Appearance → Media settings from Yoast SEO...
I was hoping that there was more prominent and nagging message about this better than all other messages I see on admin this one was very important and I wasn't aware of the problem only when I was checking the plugin settings so minus star but since you offered I'm giving it 4 stars thanks...
I installed the plugin the day it was released, and I began to suspect the following days that it was not working because it was indexing all the attachments again.
My suspicions were true, when I uninstalled the I received thousands of 404 errors in my search console for those attachments that were being purged from the index.
My solution. 1 ) Copy URLs from the sitemaps and paste it them in a.txt file 2 ) Unintall the 3 ) Block the attachment-id using robots txt 4 ) Every day take 1000 url and delete them from Google Search console..
Even so I appreciate the attempt to create the plugin to solve the problem with Panda that many have suffered...
Browse the code, check out SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS... 1.1.
Bugfixes * Fixes bug where Attachement sitemap has the wrong.
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