IndexSweep
Find the junk URLs wasting your crawl budget, fix them in one click, roll back anything. The fixer for "Crawled - currently not indexed".
Use with caution
IndexSweep works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. Was last updated 2 months ago, and scores 55/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (<10 active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
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Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where IndexSweep stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| crawl budget | #28 |
| noindex | >100 |
| redirect | >100 |
| Search Console | >100 |
| seo | >100 |
About IndexSweep
From the official readme · v0.1.1Description
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.
Installation
- Install and activate through the WordPress plugins screen, or upload the
indexsweepfolder to/wp-content/plugins/. - Go to Tools → IndexSweep.
- 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.
Frequently asked questions
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.
Changelog
Initial release.
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.
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IndexSweep: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 11, 2026
Is IndexSweep free?
Yes. IndexSweep is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is IndexSweep safe to use in 2026?
IndexSweep works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. Was last updated 2 months ago, and scores 55/100 on our health check.
How many websites use IndexSweep?
IndexSweep is active on <10 WordPress websites and has been downloaded 162 times since it launched in August 2026. It was downloaded 64 times in the last 30 days.
Does IndexSweep work with WordPress 7.1?
IndexSweep is officially tested up to WordPress 7.0.7, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
What PHP version does IndexSweep need?
IndexSweep requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was IndexSweep last updated?
The latest version, 0.1.1, was released on August 15, 2026 (2 months ago).
Who makes IndexSweep?
IndexSweep is developed and maintained by cuyava.
What are the best alternatives to IndexSweep?
The most popular alternatives to IndexSweep are Link Juice Optimizer (5K+ installs), Azayem Bots Tracker (20+ installs) and Category Indexer for WooCom… (10+ installs).
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