Yoast purge plugin caused crawl errors, getting more even after removing it

Yoast purge plugin caused crawl errors, getting more even after removing it - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the Yoast purge plugin caused crawl errors, getting more even after removing it error on your web browser. Problem :

I'm using the Yoast SEO plugin on my WordPress site, and when you upload media to WordPress media library, it makes a copy of the image or file and creates a file path (this is normal).

However, all of my images are getting indexed and are returning 410 'Gone' errors, though they still appear.

I removed the Search Index Purge plugin (also made by the Yoast team) and now those image file paths return a 301 redirect to the image file itself (not the URL created for each image).

However, in Google Search Console, I'm still getting crawl errors for each of these images (over 3,000 of them).

Has anyone experienced a similar issue? Is there a work around so I can keep these images from being indexed without removing them from the media library?

Solution :

I had the same problem with my site where I have a lot of images (as a photographer.) When I had the Search Index Purge plugin installed, I got many errors in GSC and "broken" images when I found them in Google Image search. I wrote to Yoast support but they did not answer.

To solve this issue, I had to delete this plugin and install RankMath.

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the redirects, wordpress, images error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!