Patrick Kuijpers

Hi Jesse,

Sorry to hear about the issue you are having with rending images. This does not look like behavior we expect from the Search Index Purge plugin.

In order to make this issue known to our developers, we ask that you create a GitHub issue about the issues you are having with Search Index Purge plugin.

To create a new issue, please go to our Search Index Purge plugin Github repo:
https://github.com/Yoast/search-index-purge/issues and click the big green button that says “New Issue” and fill out as much info as you can on the issue. Screenshots also always help.

Our developers will then review the issue and take it from there.

Hi,

Thank you for providing a workaround for the duplicate attachment sitemap issue. I am happy that you were able to solve the issue.

I have added this info to our original issue about this.

HI,

Sorry to hear about the issue you are having with 404’s in your attachment sitemaps. This does not look like behavior we expect from the Search Index Purge plugin.

In order to make this issue known to our developers, we ask that you create a GitHub issue about the issues you are having with Search Index Purge plugin.

To create a new issue, please go to our Search Index Purge plugin Github repo:
https://github.com/Yoast/search-index-purge/issues
and click the big green button that says “New Issue” and fill out as much info as you can on the issue. Screenshots also always help.

Our developers will then review the issue and take it from there.

Hi,

Google will still be able to crawl your images just fine. It only the actual attachment page that’s the target of the Search Index Purge plugin.

Hi,

The URLs shown in your message are not attachment pages but product category pages. Since the Search Index Purge plugin only works for actual attachment pages I will mark this as resolved.

Seeing as the page in the original post is working correctly it looks like the issue is resolved. I will, therefore, mark it as such.

Thank you for finding a duplication issue.

There is currently an issue open that sounds like the issue you are having:
https://github.com/Yoast/search-index-purge/issues/46

In Google Search Console you can set a limit to the requests Google can make per second. Normally we suggest letting Google figure this out for themselves but if it really impacts your site, you might want to set a limit.

You can set the limit by going into the Google Search Console property you want to set a limit for. Click the gear icon in the top right corner en select ‘site settings’ and then change the crawl rate settings to your liking.

Hi Michael,

The Purge plugin has a single purpose and that is the remove your attachment pages from the Google index. It has not settings to adjust.

Hi Allen,

Crawl errors in Google Search Console are expected behavior. Since, by using the Purge plugin, you are actively telling Google that these attachment URLs are a 410 and should, therefore, be removed from their index.

Once these URLs are removed from the index you can mark them as solved in Google Search Console.

Hope this helps ??

Hi Psynema,

I’m gonna go ahead and answer question 2 & 3 for you and leave your first question open for others who have more expertise on that topic.

2. If you have both a HTTP and HTTPS version running, then that’s a problem with duplicate content on your website. Google will see both of these as separate websites and therefore, will determine that there is duplicate content on both. To solve this, you can use 301 redirects to point to HTTP URLs to HTTPS. Also, make sure all canonicals point to the HTTPS version of the URL as well.

3. This all depends on what your goal is for this social networking section. If you want to rank with those pages (which doesn’t make a lot of sense) then you will have a hard time. But if you just want to add a social section to “fill out” the website and use other pages to rank with, then I do not see any issues with using BuddyPress or anything similar.