Disabling Wordpress Attachment Posts

[bozzie311]

having issues with every media (photo) we upload creating an additional page on the blog that is being indexed in Google.

ie.

post: www.mysite.com/

creates this for the photo used: www.mysite.com/blog/category/image-name/attachment/800px/

[AdoptionHelp]

But is it actually a problem?

If you give your images good titles and alt attributes, it can get picked up in image searches and be an additional way visitors can find you.

[bozzie311]

the issue is the page generated for the image has all the exact same title info etc. and what were seeing is the attachment page in the SERP ranking right under or above the actual post with content. The user experience for the page with just the attachment/image with no content is not what we want.

[altecdesign]

have you tried to "disallow" google from crawling your images directory in your robots.txt file?  If you get a lot of traffic from google image search you would probably not want to do this, but if the current problem you posted about is your #1 priority to fix, not allowing google to crawl your image directory should fix your problem.