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
- Remove punctuation (under When an image is uploaded)
- Img title
- Author shown (under Link previews)
- Use the sharing image (under Link previews)
- Use the SEO title (under Link previews)
- Robots def comment pages
- Robots def empty terms
- Robots def feeds
- Robots def paging
- Robots def password
- Title case (under Unwanted addresses)
- Attachment pages (under Pages WordPress makes for you)
- Url category base (under Categories)
- Always use your main address (www or not) (under One address per page)
- Url product base (under Categories)
- Remove comment-reply copies (under Pages WordPress makes for you)
- Always use one trailing slash style (under One address per page)
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.