Google indexes page elements

[conversal]

Hello

We face this problem that Google indexes page elements from WordPress as single pages. How can we prevent these elements from being indexed separately and being displayed in the search results?

For example this project: www.rovana.be

When scrolling down the search results, there are a lot of elements that are indexed separately.

When clicking on the link, this is wat we see (see attachements)

Does anyone have experience with this way of indexing and how can we solve this problem?

Thanks!

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[conversal]

Hi Gianluca!

Thanks for the answer. I see that these images and attachments keep showing in Google. Is this hurting our ranking score? Will we have to redirect ALL of them to the home page? Or is it ok for us to wait and let Google recrawl the website and remove them from the index?

[gfiorelli1]

Hi!

I see that the website you link to in your question is a WordPress.

So, my question: do you have Yoast SEO installed?

If the answer is yes, then you should be aware that since April 2018 Yoast SEO changed how the default set up of the media attachment URLs of WordPress are treated by the plugin.

Since then, you must explicitly tell the plugin to not let those URLs (created by WordPress, not Yoast, to be clear) indexed.

Many other websites using Yoast are suffering this kind of issue (this is the bad of not reading the plugin updates' specifications), so that Yoast itself published this post few days ago https://yoast.com/media-attachment-urls/, which explain how to correctly set up the plugin and what to do to purge the Index of your media attachment URLs (aka deindexing them).

I hope this will help you out.