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Zinn® SEO: where to find Clean-up, part 1 of 2

Where Clean-up is in Zinn® SEO (SEO > Clean-up): its tabs, every setting on it, its step-by-step guide and what an AI agent uses for it.

In WordPress, open SEO > Clean-up. Remove the extra links, feeds and address variations WordPress makes, so search engines spend their time on your real pages.

Tabs on this screen

  • Head and feeds — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/clean-up-your-site-for-search-engines
  • Addresses — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/clean-up-your-site-for-search-engines
  • Link previews — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/clean-up-your-site-for-search-engines
  • Robots rules — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/keep-thin-pages-out-of-search
  • RSS feeds — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/protect-your-rss-feed-from-copying
  • Comment spam — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/stop-comment-spam-without-a-captcha
  • Images — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/fill-image-alt-text-automatically
  • Conflicts — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/fix-seo-conflicts-with-your-theme-and-plugins

Settings on this screen

  • Archives off (under Pages WordPress makes for you)
  • Author feeds (under Feeds)
  • Comment feeds (under Feeds)
  • Search result feeds (under Feeds)
  • Category, tag and other archive feeds (under Feeds)
  • Content type archive feeds (under Feeds)
  • Remove the software version tags (under Links in every page head)
  • Remove the embed discovery links (under Links in every page head)
  • Remove unknown parameters from addresses (under Unwanted addresses)
  • Parameters to keep as well (under Unwanted addresses)
  • Remove the REST API links (under Links in every page head)
  • Remove the RSD link (under Links in every page head)
  • Clean search max
  • Keep crawlers out of search results pages (under Unwanted addresses)
  • Refuse spam searches (under Unwanted addresses)
  • Remove the short link (under Links in every page head)
  • Remove the Windows Live Writer link (under Links in every page head)
  • Conflict fixes
  • After each item (under Credit line)
  • Before each item (under Credit line)
  • Hold new posts back from the feed (minutes) (under More)
  • Add the featured image to each item (under More)
  • What happens to a caught comment (under Settings)
  • Fewest seconds a person needs to write a comment (under Settings)
  • Img alt
  • Fill missing alt text on your pages too (under When an image is uploaded)
  • Img caption
  • Capitals (under When an image is uploaded)
  • Give it a clean file name (under When an image is uploaded)
  • Img lang

Step by step

The guide with screenshots: https://zinnseo.com/kb/clean-up-your-site-for-search-engines

With an AI agent

An AI app connected to the site through MCP does the same with: apply-recommended-cleanup, get-cleanup, get-comment-spam, get-images, get-noindex-defaults, get-settings, list-conflicts, preview-conflict-fix.

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