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.