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Images in posts showing up with their own URL.

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Published on December 23, 2017

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I did a site check on google for my website using the "site:mywebsite.com" to pull up all of my indexed pages on Google.

Along with my pages and posts, there were a plethora of indexed images shown with their very own URL all by themselves.

Here's a sampling:

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For the life of me, I am ignorant as to how this happens. These are pictures that should only be in my pages and posts. They shouldn't have their own webpage.

I did a "redirect" in my Yoast SEO permalinks setting. But, that only sends the link directly to the correct page. It doesn't stop Google from listing these pictures as separate webpages.

Any WA experts available to tell me what causes this phenomena?

Help is appreciated!

And...Merry Christmas!

Jim

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