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Removing Image Attachment Pages form Google Search REsults

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  • September 21, 2015 at 4:59 pm #166268
    sportydave
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    HI, I just ran a site:malleeblue.com in Google and noticed a lot of images with attachment URLS. For example, this one land you on a page with nothing but an image of a number - not exactly high quality content.

    http://www.malleeblue.com/online-business-ideas-how-to-get-started/drawing-2/

    Is there a way in Genesis to prevent my images from being indexed by Google and displaying these attachment pages in the SERPS?

    As a general rule, when inserting an image in to a post, I don't insert it as an attachment. I would like to get these pages out of Google.

    Cheers,

    David

    Kind Regards,
    David Trounce

    http://www.malleeblue.com
    September 21, 2015 at 6:55 pm #166277
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    If you use Yoast SEO plugin, there's a checkbox to do this.

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    Victor
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    September 22, 2015 at 1:44 am #166302
    sportydave
    Participant

    Hi Victor. Thanks. I prefer not to use that plugin. If there are any other suggestions for doing this in Genesis I would be grateful.

    Kind Regards,
    David Trounce

    September 22, 2015 at 5:38 am #166321
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    Apart from using a plugin like Yoast, there is no easy way. Yoast redirects search engine bots back to the parent URL. An alternative is to add <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" /> in the header of every single attachment page. You could probably write a PHP routine to do this and add it to your functions.php, but you wouldn't get the redirect back to the parent page. The last alternative is to maybe you can find another SEO plugin you'd be willing to work with.

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    Victor
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    September 22, 2015 at 6:11 am #166326
    sportydave
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    Thanks Victor. I have decided to add an image.php file and send attachments back to the post. It seems to have worked. Will just need to see what Google does with them.

    Kind Regards,
    David Trounce

    September 29, 2015 at 7:51 pm #167011
    Tom
    Participant

    There is also this nugget from Rob Neu:

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-unattached-images/

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