Best search engines plugins for WordPress
The most popular search engines plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Hide from Search leads with 3K+ active installs, ahead of Canonical Link (2K+) and Mass Ping Tool for SEO (400+). All 14 plugins tagged “search engines” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 search engines plugins
- 1.
Hide from SearchThe most installed search engines plugin, with 3K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 17 reviews, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
Canonical Link2K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 5 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
Mass Ping Tool for SEO400+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 4.
Include Sitename in Search Results100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 5.
Robots Meta Whiz100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 6.
Check Search Engine Visibility on Migration70+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
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noindex Past Events for The Events Calendar50+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 5 months ago.
- 8.
Seo Crawlytics Data Export & Delete10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 9.
Search Engine Visibility Warning10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 10.
AIFORYA Sitemap10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
All 14 plugins tagged “search engines”
Hide from Search
#4,066by Micah Wood8 months ago
Hide individual WordPress pages from search engines and/or WordPress searches, such as confirmation and download pages.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.4(17)
- Downloads
- 21/day
Canonical Link
Down in the last 7 days:3#4,762by Web Guy5 months ago
Adds the canonical link to your site.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 18/day
Mass Ping Tool for SEO
Down in the last 7 days:45#9,760by Pagup29 days ago
Mass ping tool for SEO plugin is one of the fastest ways to get indexed by Google. After pinging, Google bots, crawlers will visit your website and in …
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 3.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Include Sitename in Search Results
Down in the last 7 days:54#15,485by apasionados9 months ago
Adds the JSON-LD schema.org markup for including the Site Name in Search Results on the homepage.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Robots Meta Whiz
Up in the last 7 days:47#16,405by Marat Nepomnyashy9 years ago
Easy way to discourage search engines from indexing only specific pages / posts with custom meta tags.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Check Search Engine Visibility on Migration
Down in the last 7 days:28#18,910by Rhys Wynne11 months ago
Checks if a site it's inivisible to search engines after a migration. If so, then the plugin warns you to review this setting.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
noindex Past Events for The Events Calendar
Down in the last 7 days:22#20,904by Room 34 Creative Services, LLC5 months ago
Automatically add a "noindex" meta tag to The Events Calendar's detail pages for past events, to prevent them from appearing in search engines.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Seo Crawlytics Data Export & Delete
Down in the last 7 days:95#29,398by apasionados3 years ago
Exports all entries of Seo Crawlytics and gives you the option to delete the entries that are older than 1 month.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Search Engine Visibility Warning
Up in the last 7 days:6,547#37,228by Pau Iglesias11 years ago
Show a warning message when your blog visibility is blocked for search engines. Also, hides the de-indexing option.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
AIFORYA Sitemap
Up in the last 7 days:1,258#37,649by aiforya2 months ago
Generate an XML sitemap so search engines can crawl and index your pages, posts and categories. No API key, no account.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Privacy Notice
Down in the last 7 days:136#45,798by Joseph Hinson14 years ago
This plugin simply adds a notice in the admin bar if search engines are not enabled. This plugin helps you check yo'self before you wreck yo' …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Target Visitors
Down in the last 7 days:11,143#46,257by getincss17 years ago
Plugin shows a special message to your blog's visitors, who coming from search engines (Google, Yandex, MSN, Yahoo, Mail.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Search Exclude Categories and Tags
Up in the last 7 days:14,342#54,768by WP Academic7 years ago
License: GPLv2 or later WordPress plugin to block category and tag pages from search engines
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multisite search visibility indicator
#67,965by unforgivenhobbies24 days ago
Adds a toolbar indicator showing which sites discourage search engines. Supports WordPress Multisite with bulk management.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day