Improve your WordPress website ranking by identifying how plugins and auto-generated content affect your Google visibility. Stop accidental page bloat from hurting your search performance.

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Many WordPress sites suffer from duplicate tags and hidden auto-generated pages that confuse search engines. This guide provides a checklist to clean up your sitemap and ensure Google indexes only the content that matters. If your site has grown messy, these steps help you regain control over your technical SEO and stop wasting crawl budget on empty or redundant URLs.

I walk through the specific WordPress SEO settings that often trigger these issues without your knowledge. By auditing your tag management and plugin output, you can protect your site authority and keep your rankings stable. Following this process helps you verify that every page on your site serves a clear purpose for your visitors.

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🔧 FREE TOOLS USED IN THIS VIDEO
Google Search Console: https://search.google.com/search-console

📚 SOURCES
Google Search Central, Introduction to robots.txt: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro

Google Search Central, Canonical URLs and sitemaps: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls

Google Search Central, Prevent user-generated spam: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/prevent-abuse

WordPress 6.4, Changes to attachment pages: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/10/16/changes-to-attachment-pages/

WordPress 5.5, XML sitemaps: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/07/22/new-xml-sitemaps-functionality-in-wordpress-5-5/

Yoast, Which pages to noindex: https://yoast.com/which-pages-noindex-or-nofollow/

Yoast, Media pages setting: https://yoast.com/help/yoast-seo-settings-media-pages/

John Mueller on multiple H1 headings (Search Engine Land): https://searchengineland.com/multiple-h1s-wont-get-in-the-way-of-your-seo-google-says-322909

⏱️ CHAPTERS:
0:00 6 hidden WordPress problems
0:45 We ran all 6 checks on our own site
1:09 #1 Archive pages Google is indexing
2:06 Check your tag and author pages
2:32 #2 A page for every photo
3:28 #3 Two SEO plugins fighting
4:29 Who’s looking after your site?
4:55 #4 A copy of your site in Google
5:17 The robots.txt trap
5:47 How we build: test copies behind a password
6:12 #5 Spam in your comments
7:12 #6 A sitemap full of junk
7:57 Check your sitemap
8:22 What we found on our own site
9:02 How we set up every WordPress site
9:24 Myth: multiple H1 headings
9:51 Recap: all 6 problems
10:17 Free checklist
10:31 Done for you (video code WORDPRESS)
11:07 AI Visibility Score
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