Title: IndexSweep Author: cuyava Published: August 15, 2026 Last modified: August 15, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/indexsweep/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3648070) ![](https://ps.w.org/indexsweep/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3648070) # IndexSweep By [cuyava](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cuyava/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/indexsweep.0.1.1.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/indexsweep/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/indexsweep/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/indexsweep/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/indexsweep/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/indexsweep/) ## Description Your Google Search Console “Page indexing” report is full of URLs that were crawled but not indexed — and most of them are junk your site never meant to publish: feed URLs, parameter variants, malformed-link artifacts, leftover ad-tech and redirect- plugin endpoints. Your SEO plugin shows you index status. **IndexSweep fixes it**: * **Audit** — a configuration scan of the junk sources your site exposes right now, plus a content-link scan that finds the _sources_ of junk URLs (like malformed relative links minting ghost pages) inside your posts. * **GSC Import** — upload your Search Console export; every URL is classified against a pattern library of real-world junk, with a plain-English explanation and a recommended action. Nothing leaves your server. * **One-click fixes** — apply reversible rules: 410 Gone, X-Robots-Tag noindex, or clean-URL redirects. No .htaccess edits, no file changes. * **Full rollback** — every rule is one click to remove; every change is logged with hit counts. **Safety first.** A resolvable page can never be served a 410 — every destructive rule passes a safety check against your real permalinks, pagination, and archives before it acts. IndexSweep also respects your SEO plugin (Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO) — it never duplicates or overrides their settings. ## Screenshots [⌊Audit tab — configuration scan and content-link scan showing junk sources the site exposes.⌉⌊Audit tab — configuration scan and content-link scan showing junk sources the site exposes.⌉[ Audit tab — configuration scan and content-link scan showing junk sources the site exposes. [⌊GSC Import tab — a Search Console export classified against the pattern library, with recommended actions.⌉⌊GSC Import tab — a Search Console export classified against the pattern library, with recommended actions.⌉[ GSC Import tab — a Search Console export classified against the pattern library, with recommended actions. [⌊Rules & Log tab — one-click pattern fixes, active reversible rules with hit counts, and the change log.⌉⌊Rules & Log tab — one-click pattern fixes, active reversible rules with hit counts, and the change log.⌉[ Rules & Log tab — one-click pattern fixes, active reversible rules with hit counts, and the change log. ## Installation 1. Install and activate through the WordPress plugins screen, or upload the `indexsweep` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`. 2. Go to **Tools IndexSweep**. 3. Run the configuration audit, then export your “Page indexing” report from Google Search Console (Indexing Pages open a reason Export) and upload the CSV in the** GSC Import** tab. ## FAQ ### Will this break my site? Every fix is a reversible request-time rule with a full change log. A safety check prevents 410s on any URL that resolves to real content — posts, pages, pagination, date and term archives. Nothing edits your files. ### Do I need a Google account or API access? No. IndexSweep works entirely from the CSV export you download from Search Console yourself. No OAuth, no API keys, no Google connection. ### Does this send my data anywhere? No. CSV analysis happens entirely on your server. IndexSweep makes no external requests at all. ### What if I have Yoast / Rank Math / All in One SEO? Keep it. IndexSweep detects your SEO plugin and stays out of its way — it only handles junk-URL remediation, which SEO plugins don’t do. ### How do I undo a fix? Tools IndexSweep Rules & Log Roll back. The rule is removed immediately; the change log entry is kept for your records. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “IndexSweep” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ cuyava ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cuyava/) [Translate “IndexSweep” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/indexsweep) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/indexsweep/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/indexsweep/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/indexsweep/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/indexsweep/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.1.1 * The 410 response now uses the native WordPress error page (wp_die) instead of a custom HTML template, and the filterable message is escaped on output. * Admin styles and the select-all script are now static files loaded with wp_enqueue_style/ wp_enqueue_script (no inline style or script attributes). * Fixed: a clean-URL redirect for a malformed “//post-slug/” URL now resolves to the canonical article instead of the site home page. * The affiliate/redirect-endpoints pattern is now clearly marked advisory: its paths (/go/, /refer/, /recommends/) can also be real pages, so it is offered as a robots.txt suggestion instead of a site-wide rule that could noindex live content. * Fixed: fixing a link now unwraps only the reported anchor, even when the same link appears more than once in the post. * Fixed: array-style query parameters (?filter[]=red) survive a clean-URL redirect instead of being emptied. * Fixed: “Restore original link” is now refused after a link has already been restored, preventing a rare content-corruption case. * Safety: deep single-post pagination (/slug/100/) is now protected from the numeric- suffix redirect; the hit counter only counts requests a rule actually acts on. * Fixed: fixing or restoring a link no longer strips literal backslashes from the rest of the post (code snippets, Windows paths). * Fixed: an inapplicable rule no longer stops later rules from acting on the same request, while any rule vetoed by a safety check still shields the page from all remaining rules. * Safety: term-archive protection now works regardless of language/term filters and matches non-ASCII archive slugs in either encoded or decoded form. #### 0.1.0 * Initial release: configuration audit, content-link scan, GSC CSV analyzer with junk-pattern library, reversible fix engine (410 / noindex / clean redirect), hit counting, change log with one-click rollback. ## Meta * Version **0.1.1** * Last updated **14 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.0.4** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Tags * [crawl budget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/crawl-budget/)[noindex](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/noindex/) [redirect](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/redirect/)[Search Console](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search-console/) [seo](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/indexsweep/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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