Rank MathIt is the strongest SEO plugin with much better functionality as well as results than other plugins. Some customers have purchased ourRank Math Pro pluginWe don't know how to set it up and can't read the keyword scoring criteria and how to get 100 points, so we're writing this Rank Math setup tutorial to help you out.

 

Rank Math Setup Tutorial

Every feature and setting of Rank Math Pro will be explained in detail below, feel free to leave your questions in the comments below.

Dashboard Settings

Click on the Rank Math setting inside "Dashboard", defaults to "ModulesClick on the "Advanced Mode" tab on the right corner of the page. Click "Advanced Mode" in the upper right corner of the page to switch to advanced mode, which will show more functions.

Here you can enable/disable the corresponding function. Set the enable/disable as shown below with text description below.

404 Monitor. When you open it, it will record which 404 pages visitors have accessed on this site. From the 404 record you can know what pages on this site have broken links to cause inaccessible, and then combined with '"Redirections" function to redirect 404 links to fix SEO problems.

Too many 404 pages have an adverse effect on SEO and need to be fixed. Here is a tutorial on how to fix 404 pages.

ACF: If there is an ACF plug-in installed on the open, can help plug-ins to identify the content of the ACF field text, help optimize SEO. no ACF plug-in installed on the close.

AMP:Close, if you have the AMP plugin installed, it is recommended to uninstall it.AMP has an adverse effect on conversions and Google has said it is not hopeful about AMP.

Analytics:Open, you can link Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics, directly in the background of the site to display keyword rankings and page indexing, very convenient and practical! The following tutorial explains how to link Google account and view data.

Turning on this feature will result in a larger database size, which will have a small impact on server performance (I think the impact is very small). If you usually view the data directly on the Google Analytics website or something like that, and don't need to view it in the backend of the site, turn off this feature.

bbPress & BuddyPress:If you don't have these 2 forum plugins installed keep them off, if you do have them installed turn them on.

Content AI:It is not recommended to open it. This is an extra charge function, analyzing keywords once for 2-3 dollars is very expensive, and you need to go to Rank Math's official website to buy credits before you can use it. We think Content AI is not very useful, a bit like specializing in cutting white leeks.

Image SEO:Open, very important feature. Automatically adds ALT and Title tags to images, greatly enhancing the SEO of the image and the page it is on.

Instant Indexing:Open, very important feature. Able to solve the problem of slow and non-inclusion of Google.

Link Counter:Calculates the number of inlinks and outlinks for pages, posts, products and other content for SEO scoring as well as recommendations. Opening it causes the database to bloat, if you are an expert know how to add dofollow external and internal links as per SEO requirements, close it. Otherwise newbies are advised to open it.

Local SEO:This function adds the appropriate metadata to set the site as athis localityCommercial sites, when users search in Google (Baidu does not work)this localityThere is a high likelihood that your website will be searched for when doing business.

For example, you are a flower store in XX city. After you open this function and set your store address and other information, if the residents of XX city search "XX city flower store" in Google, it will prioritize your flower store website page to the front.

It is recommended to turn it on if you have a local brick and mortar store or a local business, otherwise keep it turned off. If it's a foreign trade site it's not recommended to open it unless you have offices abroad.

News Sitemap:News sites (e.g. Sohu Portal, Baidu News, etc.) open, otherwise close.

Podcast:Podcasts, if you don't know what they are, it's optimal to always keep the default. If your site is a show, episode type, open it up to get into the Podcast search result rankings on Google, Apple, whatever. If your site is not a show, episode type site, don't open it.

Redirections:Redirection feature, must be turned on. It can redirect some wrong links to new ones and optimize the SEO effect. If you modify some pages, articles, products and other links, it will also automatically redirect the old links to the new ones, very practical.

Schema (Structured Data):Rich text structure, which must be opened, helps the page to get more rankings.

Role Manager:Turn this on to restrict Rank Math setting/viewing privileges for different role accounts on your website. If your website does not have different role accounts using Rank Math at the same time, you do not need to turn on this feature.

SEO Analysis:Open, this is an SEO analysis tool that comes with Rank Math that analyzes a website's SEO and gives optimization recommendations.

Sitemap:Site map function, you must open, help the site to generate a site map to facilitate search engine indexing pages.

Video Sitemap:Video sitemaps, which are recommended to be turned on, allow videos to be indexed by search engines to participate in rankings.

Google Web Stories:Don't open this if it's not a story type site.

WooCommerce:You must open this if you have the WooCommerce e-commerce plugin installed.

 

General Settings settings

To set up Rank Math, go to the "General Settings" tab.

Tip: If you install the Chinese package, the language displayed is not English, check the content and location of their own reference to the following tutorial settings.

Links

Refer to the following diagram for setup

Strip Category Base:When opened it removes the category names from the category URLs and has a beautifying effect on the URLs.If the old site has been indexed by the search engine do not open this function! Otherwise it will cause the category pages that have been indexed to not open.

If your website is multilingual and the URLs of the multilingual pages are translated into the corresponding languages, do not turn on this feature, it will cause the multilingual category pages to not open. If you don't know this feature very well, it is safest to keep it turned off.

Redirect Attachments:Enabled, this setting redirects URLs from attachment pages to the post they are used in. They will be redirected to the post with the URLxxx.com/post-with-imageThe

Doing so may seem trivial, but it has many SEO benefits, including assigning SEO value to the links your images and other attachments build over time. For these reasons, we recommend enabling this setting.

Redirect Orphan Attachments:Images and attachments that are not inserted into any page are called Isolated Media, and it is recommended that the website homepage address be entered here so that visitors are automatically redirected to the homepage when they access Isolated Media.

If there are some isolated media on the site that you intentionally do not put inside any page, there are other uses, you need to be able to access through the URL, then do not enter the home page address here, just leave it blank.

Nofollow External Links:Adding the Nofollow attribute to external links, turned on, can avoid distracting page weight for SEO. This feature needs to be used in conjunction with the "Nofollow Domains" feature below.

Nofollow Image File Links:Add Nofollow attribute to all links to offsite images, turn it on, good for SEO.

Nofollow Domains:This setting is used in conjunction with the "NoFollow External Links" feature listed above. Enter the external links that need to have the Nofollow attribute added here.URL prefixIt is recommended to enter the following URL. NoFollow" attribute will not be added to links that are not entered.

The main purpose here is to set nofollow for external links that are implanted by unconventional means (e.g., added through code).If it is in the page content manually inserted in the external link, directly over there to set the nofollow effect of the same, do not need to add additional domain name of the external link here.

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Nofollow Exclude Domains:Ignore, leave blank.

Open External Links in New Tab/Window:This option willtarget = "_blank"property is applied to all external links, this will open them in a new tab or window, it is recommended to enable this setting.

Affiliate Link Prefix:If you don't know what it means, just keep the default ignore. If you have some affiliate marketing URLs and use the redirect feature to redirect the onsite URL (assuming it's A) to the marketing URL (assuming it's B), by default rank math will treat that URL A as an onsite link.

Fill in the suffix of the A URL here, the corresponding URL will be treated as an outbound link, and the attribute of rel="sponsored" for these links will be added automatically (if not already added) to comply with the search engine's guidelines for affiliate links.

For example you would https://example.com/go/It is used as a basis for hiding URLs, just type /go/ in the field, one line at a time.

 

Breadcrumbs

You can use Rank Math's breadcrumb function after you enable it, and you can add Rank Math's breadcrumb function to the page by short code. Generally only product list page, product detail page, article detail page will use breadcrumb function, the theme usually comes with it, there is no need to enable Rank Math additionally.

If you don't use this feature, just leave all settings on this tab as default and don't turn it on.

 

Images

This is an image SEO optimization feature that is very important.

Attention:The image optimization feature here only applies to images inserted into content (posts, pages, products)

Add missing ALT attributes:Turning on and adding Alt Attributes to images is very important for SEO.Alt Attributes are HTML attributes that are considered "alternative" text versions of an image that are displayed on a website when the image is not available or when the visitor wants to replace the text. These attributes can be very useful when people are unable to view the image in their browser.

The importance of the Alt attribute:

1. Images that cannot be loaded: The Alt property is used to improve the visibility of a website and also to improve the user experience. If an image fails to load, the Alt can be used to understand the content of the image;
2. Visitors with visual impairmentThe : Alt attribute is a key element of the Web for people who are blind or visually impaired. It provides text that can be read by a screen reader or any other program that reads aloud what an image contains;
3. Search Engine Optimization: Sometimes search engines may not be able to access images on a website. Alternative text helps improve SEO by providing search engines with additional information about the content of the images on a web page.In addition, image search engines such as Google Images and Bing use alternative text to select the best images to respond to a search query. For example, when a user searches for a product on a search engine, it will display the best image consisting of detailed and relevant alternative text information.

Alt attribute format:Set the value of Picture Alt, it is recommended to keep it as default.%filename%, will automatically use the image name as the image ALT, which is the best option in the vast majority of cases.

Add missing TITLE attributes:This option will automatically add the Title attribute to images that do not have a title, and the title will also help search engines understand the image better. Turning it on will help SEO a little bit, but it will show the Title content of the image when you mouse over it (red box below).

We feel that turning on this feature will affect the customer experience, so we do not recommend turning it on.

Title attribute format:This option will be displayed only when the above function is enabled, and it is recommended to select the%filename%The

Add missing image caption:Turn on, Add Missing Image Captions automatically adds captions to all images. Enable this option to add captions to images.

Caption format:This option is only visible if the previous option Add Missing Image Caption is enabled. Caption Format helps to define the format to be used for new captions. The default format is set to%title% %count(title)%. You can use variables and live preview to create formats.

Add missing image description:Add missing image descriptions, turn on. This option will allow you to add descriptions to images that do not have any description set. Image descriptions help search engines understand images better.

Description format:The description format works in a similar way to the title format, the only difference being that it helps to define the format for a new description. Use variables to create the format. Again, only if you enable the previous optionAdd missing image descriptionThis option is only visible when

Change title casing:Change the case setting, visitors can't see the change, so this setting is meaningless, just keep the default.

Change alt attribute casing:Change the case setting, visitors can't see the change, so this setting is meaningless, just keep the default.

Change description casing:Change the case setting, visitors can't see the change, so this setting is meaningless, just keep the default.

Change caption casing:Change the case setting, visitors can't see the change, so this setting is meaningless, just keep the default.

Add ALT attributes for avatars:This option helps to add Alt attributes to the avatars used in the commenter's profile picture and is recommended to be turned off. Turning it on doesn't help, it's mostly a personal preference.

Replacements:This option allows you to replace characters or words in alt tags, title tags or headings. It usually doesn't do much, ignore it.

 

Webmaster Tools

This feature allows us to quickly link to some webmaster tools without installing code or anything else, which is very convenient. Let us demonstrate how to use this feature to link the site Google Search Console (Google Webmaster Tools), so that Google indexed, included in the site.

first visitGoogle Search Consolewebsite and click the Get Started Now button.

 

You will need to sign in with your Google account. Once inside, you should see a screen similar to this one. Please note that if you are not connected to any websites, your Search Console will look different.

 

As per the picture below, you first need to add the website.

 

Google Search Console offers 2 ways to verify a website. On the left is domain name resolution verification and on the right is URL verification. It is recommended to use URL verification by entering the URL of your website in the URL Prefix field and clicking Continue.

 

You should see a screen similar to the one below. Here, Google shows you all the ways to verify ownership of your website by clicking on "HTML tag".

 

The settings will be expanded, click "COPY" to copy the meta code.

 

Go back to the backend of the site, in the Webmaster Tools settings, and paste the copied meta code into the Google Search Console input box.

 

Go to the bottom of the page and click Save Changes.

 

Then go back to the Google Webmaster Tools verification page and click "VERIFY" to verify. Verification is passed on behalf of the completion of the binding, if the verification does not pass the need to refresh the background cache, and then click "VERIFY" verification, try a few more times should be verified successfully.

 

In addition to Google Webmaster Tools, this feature links to the following tools:
Bing Webmaster Tools
Baidu Webmaster Tools
Yandex Webmaster Tools
Pinterest Verification
Norton Safe Web Verification

 

Edit robots.txt

This shows the content of the robots.txt file in the root directory of the website. If the robots.txt file does not exist in the root directory, Rank Math automatically creates a virtual robots.txt file (which will not be displayed in the root directory) and writes the most basic rules to allow crawlers to crawl/include all pages.

robots.txt is a very important file inside the SEO, it tells Google and other search engine crawlers do not crawl / included in the site which within. Do not want to be crawled URL path written in, the crawler will not crawl the corresponding URL.

We should prohibit pages that do not want to participate in search engine rankings, or are of low quality, from being crawled. This will greatly reduce the workload of the crawlers and improve indexing results and site ranking results. It can also greatly reduce the Google Webmaster Tools inside the indexing about the inclusion of the error prompts. It is very helpful to optimize SEO!

If the root directory does not have a robots.txt file, we can also manually edit the robots.txt file here, which is very convenient!If it cannot be edited, follow theThis article methodologyTo solve the problem, or not if it should be a plug-in conflict, try to disable other plug-ins.

You can also create a robots.txt file manually, upload it via FTP to the FTP site root directory, and edit and modify the robots.txt content there. It will replace Rank Math's virtual robots.txt file.

 

Others

Turn on "Remove Media Data from RSS feed" and leave the rest as default.

 

WooCommerce

If the WooCommerce plugin is not installed, this tab will not be visible.

Remove base:This function removes the "shop" from the product URL and shortens the url.

When enabled: https://xxx.com/shop/product-1 becomes → https://xxx.com/product-1

Remove category base:This function removes the category URL inside the product URL.

When enabled: https://xxx.com/category/product-1 becomes → https://xxx.com/product-1

Remove parent slugs:Same function as above, except that this function is removed from the URLfatherCategory.

When enabled: https://xxx.com/category1/category2/product-1 becomes → https://xxx.com/category2/product-1

If all the above 3 functions are enabled: https://xxx.com/shop/category1/category2/product-1 becomes → https://xxx.com/product-1. It looks much better, if the new website is not yet indexed, you can consider suggesting to turn on these 3 functions.

WooCommercenot recommendedPerform the above three operations on product, product category or store URLs, as this will lead to performance problems and duplicate URLs. however, according to the study of short URLs on SEO benefits, according to their own website to decide to turn on or not, it is not recommended that small users to turn on.

2023.02.20 Update: After some of our customers' websites opened the above 3 functions, every now and then the product list page could not be opened or jumped to a certain product. After checking, it is plugin conflict or something like that which leads to link abnormality. Just modify the rank math setting and save it to recover.

If it still doesn't work reset the pseudo-static + go to the fixed link settings If it doesn't work, disable the other plugins one by one until the problem is solved. If it still doesn't work, disable other plug-ins one by one until the problem is solved. Remember to clear the cache and then refresh the front page to see the effect. White or do not enable the change URL function, the follow-up may be a whole lot of problems.

Note: The above 3 functions for deleting URLsold websiteDo not open! Turning it on will invalidate previous product URLs and create a lot of bad links. If you have translated the product url using the multilingual translation plugin, don't open these 3 features either. If there are sub-categories with the same name, opening those sub-categories with the same URLs will result in a conflict causing the category page to prompt 404.

Remove Generator Tag:It is recommended to enable increased security.WooCommerce outputs a large amount of meta information in the source code. While it can be used for diagnostic purposes, there are security risks. Here is how Meta Generator tags are displayed in the source code.

When this option is enabled, Rank Math disables the output of this meta-information in your web feed. This is actually a safety feature, so we recommend enabling it.

Remove Schema Markup on Shop Archives:It's recommended to turn it on, it's good for SEO, and Google does not recommend adding product schemas to category pages. In fact, they explicitly state that "Product offers should not be included in the Schema.org/Product tag on category pages."

The reason for this is that product schemas are intended to provide information about specific products, not product categories. When you add a product schema to a category page, you are effectively saying that all products in that category are the same, which is not true.

Select Brand:To add your brand information to the page code summary information, it is recommended that you select "Custom" and then enter your brand name in the Brand input box below.

Global Identifier:This is the product identifier, the default, don't touch it if you don't know it.

Show Global Identifier:Close. This option displays the Global Identifier on the product page. If you enable Show Global Identifier, it displays the Global Identifier on the product page.

Noindex Hidden Products:Turn on. If the WooCommerce catalog is set to hidden, search engines will not index products from the hidden catalog when this feature is turned on.

 

Edit .htaccess

This is where the .htaccess file is edited and is super easy to cause problems with the site. Don't touch it, ignore it.

 

404 Monitor

A 404 error occurs when a visitor tries to access a page that doesn't exist on the site. Turning on this feature will record which 404 pages on the site have been accessed by the visitor.

It's normal to update and delete content when the site is active, so every site will have some 404 errors.

It is normal to have 404 errors, however some 404 pages are caused by missing pages or URL changes. This can very much affect the customer experience and SEO results. So you need to record the 404 page data and use redirection and other methods to repair.

Just set it up as shown below, there's not much to tell.

Mode: At first, it is recommended to choose "Advanced", you can check the source of 404 URL. Know the source can be modified from the source of the URL, more useful than directed, efficient. If there are too many 404 links "Advanced" option will increase the burden on the server, so the site runs for a period of time after checking the internal 404 links is recommended to change to "Simple" mode.

 

Redirections

Redirection function, you can redirect the 404 page link to the normal page, fix SEO. set up as per the picture.

Debug Redirections: If enabled, the following redirection countdown box will pop up when you visit the redirected URLs, you can check which URLs will be redirected to. With the function of creating/managing URL redirections. Newbies should not enable, generally debugging, check redirection problems only use this function.

Auto Post Redirect:Must be enabled, when modifying articles, pages, products and other links will automatically redirect the old URL to the new URL, which can avoid a large number of 404 link situation, SEO is very helpful.

 

Analytics

This is the keyword ranking and indexing and other situation analysis function, you need to link to Google Webmaster and Google Analytics to get the data and then displayed in the website Analytics section. You need to link Rank Math account first, mainland website can't link Google Analytics, don't use this function.

Click the button to link accounts.

It is recommended to link to a Google account to get keyword rankings and other data. If you don't have a Google account, click Register Now to sign up for a free Rank Math account and click the yellow button "USE EMAIL & PASSWORD" to link to your Rank Math account.

After the link you need to go to Google Webmaster Tools to establish the site data (you must use the above link to the Google account login Google Webmaster Tools), to establish the data method to see the above Webmaster Tools Chapters.

After creating the site data go back to Analytics Settings and refresh the page, the following page will appear, Site select the website URL and Country select Wordwide.

Below is the link Google Analytics, if you don't have the data, you need to go to firstGoogle Analytics Official WebsiteCreate the corresponding website data. After creation, return to this page to refresh the corresponding data will appear, according to the following figure to select.

If you have previously created a Google Analytics Account, select the data as shown below and choose Create new GA4 Property there for Property.

Install analytics code:Install Google Analytics code to your website more easily with just one click. Don't use other plugins to install Google Analytics code, installing it here is enough.

Anonymize IP addresses:The IP addresses of all visitors after opening are anonymized in your Analytics data, which complies with factor regulations in some countries.

Self-Hosted Analytics JS File:Enabling self-hosted analytics JS files will host Google Analytics tracking files locally (scripts are automatically updated every 12 hours), and it speeds up your site by eliminating the need for external requests.

Exclude Logged-in users:Enable to exclude logged-in users, which will prevent internal traffic from showing up in the analysis.

AdSense:After connecting your Google account using this option, you can view all AdSense data.

Analytics Database:Set the number of days to store website analytics data.Rank Math will automatically fetch data from Google Analytics at defined intervals, or you can fetch the data manually. In most cases, the default of 90 days is sufficient.

When you connect to your website, Rank Math obviously does not get any data from the Search Console. Therefore, we recommend that you get the data manually for the first time.

Rank Math will fetch the data and the metadata should be updated once the fetch is complete.

Frontend Stats Bar:Enabling it displays analytics data for the post in the foreground, such as search traffic, search impressions, page speed, etc., so you can get a quick overview of the performance of the post without having to switch between tabs.

Email Reports:When enabled, it periodically puts theSEO Performance ReportSent to your inbox, it contains changes related to website traffic, number of displays, total keywords and average rankings.

Attention:To utilize this feature, you need to Associate your website with Google Account Services and configure your Search Console settings in the same Analytics section. In addition, PRO, Business, and Agency users should also Connecting their website to Google Analytics The

Email Frequency:Set the frequency of incoming e-mail, choose according to your personal preference.

Include Only Tracked Keywords:When this option is enabled, the Winning Keywords and Missing Keywords sections of the email report will contain only theKeywords tracked with Rank TrackerThe

 

Title & Meta Settings

Here you mainly set the SEO title of the page, Meta and other data.

Global Meta

Setting it up as pictured, this is relatively simple and singular.

 

Local SEO

Local business, since this option is available, set it up as shown below without loss.

 

Social Meta

The Social Meta section contains all settings related to social media metadata.

Set up as shown below

 

Homepage

Blank, ignore.

 

Post Formats Archive

Ignore, this is useless for 99% sites, especially foreign trade sites.

 

Authors

Enable if your site has a lot of different authors posting different articles, otherwise disable. 99% sites should disable it.

 

Misc Pages

Miscellaneous Settings, which contains all the settings for all the other pages in WordPress, such as the search page, 404 page, etc., as shown in the figure below.

 

writings

Set up the General General Settings as shown below.

Schema Type: choose Article or Blog, usually choose Article.

Schema Type: generally choose Article, Article and Blog main difference lies in the number of words and depth, Article longer words (for example, this site's articles are basically several thousand or even more than 10,000 words), Blog shorter words. article content is more comprehensive and in-depth, Blog bias shallow.

 

web page

Set up the General General Settings as shown below.

 

offerings

Set up the General General Settings as shown below.

 

Category (Articles)

Article Category Page Setup. Article category pages are generally unimportant and poorly ranked, the"Category Archives Robots Meta".Generally, select "No Index" to let search engine not to index the category page.

 

Tags (articles)

article tags should not be indexed by search engines to participate in ranking."Tags Archives Robots Meta" Select "No Index".

 

product category

This is important, set it up as shown.

 

Product Labeling

Like article tags, it shouldn't be indexed.

 

Sitemap Settings

Site map settings to set which pages appear in the site map.

General

Setting up according to the picture

 

HTML Sitemap

HTML Sitemap (site map) is the site of all the pages of the URL are listed on a page, the purpose is to facilitate access to visitors to find content. HTML Sitemap contains internal links, which helps Google better crawl the site on the page to join the index.

From the SEO point of view only helps search engine indexing, the impact on the ranking is minimal, a lot of old domestic websites used to like to do HTML sitemap. Some people are worried about opening this feature will expose all the pages, so that others can plagiarize and so on. See the wisdom, open as needed.

First, create a new page in "Page", name it HTML Sitemap, then save it. Go to Rank Math > HTML Sitemap and set it according to the following figure.Display Format select page and an input box will appear, input HTML Sitemap to search the newly created page and save it.

If you can't find the HTML Sitemap page, select shortcode instead and copy the followingshort code(math.) genusJust paste it inside the content of the new page.

For shortcode, it's best to use the Elementor edit page, add a new shortcode widget, and then paste in theshort codeinto it so that you can control the width, spacing, and so on, of the displayed content.

After making a good HTML Sitemap, we suggest adding the corresponding link in the footer, we have added a "Sitemap" link in the footer of this website, and new articles/pages/products will be automatically added to this page.

May establish the HTML Sitemap display is not very beautiful, not centered and so on, that is because the default page style is not good. You can add your own CSS to modify the appearance of the HTML Sitemap on this site. https://diiamo.cn/html-sitemap/  Also page add css to modify the style. If you do not know CSS, it is recommended to choose shortcode to use Elementor production.

Note: Only indexed content will appear on the sitemap page, content set to noindex will not be displayed.

 

Articles, Pages, Products, Product Categories

These types of pages are important and need to be involved in the rankings, add them to the sitemap.

Unify the settings according to the following figure, open Include in Sitemap, Include in HTML Sitemap, leave Image Custom Fields empty.

 

Categorization, Labeling, Product Labeling

These types of pages are not important enough to be involved in ranking, don't add them to the sitemap.

Unify the settings according to the following figure, turn off Include in Sitemap, if you want the HTML Sitemap page to show categories and so on, turn on Include in HTML Sitemap, otherwise turn it off.

 

Video Sitemap

Set up as shown below.

This concludes the Rank Math setup tutorial, if you don't understand anything, please feel free to leave a comment below. Next is the tutorial on how to use Rank Math.

 

Rank Math Tutorial

Setting it up is just the most basic step, and using it well takes SEO to the next level.

404 page fix

Every website has a 404 page, which is very normal, does not necessarily affect SEO and so on. However, some 404 pages are caused by operational errors, such as late changes to the product URL but the Google index page or the old URL, resulting in customers clicking on the link to enter the site in the search results prompted 404.

This situation should allow Google to re-index the page after updating the URL, as well as redirect the old URL to the new one in the backend of the site.

Click on the websiteTop Function BarUnder "Rank Math SEO", go to "404 Monitor" to enter the list of 404 error pages.

There are a lot of URLs are very strange 404 page is a robot scanning the site for vulnerabilities and so on, do not care. Some 404 pages if you feel abnormal should be repaired. For example, this site 404 page prompt image-compression (https://diiamo.cn/image-compression) can not be accessed!

This is a very important link and keyword, so I redirected it to ourImage Compression Tutorial ArticlesThe

 

redirects

It is usually used in combination with a 404 page to redirect some bad links on the website to normal pages to avoid bad SEO effects and user experience.

Click on the websiteTop Function Bar"Rank Math SEO" under "Redirections" > "Manage Redirections" to access the redirections page. The redirection page is located in the "Redirections" section.

Click Add New to add a redirect.

Source URLs enter the suffix of the URL that needs to be redirected (remove https://xxx.com/) and enter the destination URL at Destination URL.

 

Instant Indexing

This is the fast inclusion feature, also known as api inclusion. It can push the newly released/updated content to search engines in time, greatly improving the speed and success rate of inclusion. Applicable to Google, Bing, Yandex search, click to viewInstant Indexing TutorialThe

The following figure ↓ is the success of automatic push inclusion / update, the website background top tip information. The vast majority of the content above the Internet does not make sense, Google is now biased towards the inclusion of high-quality dry content, for the quality of the content is basically not included.

Foreign trade website/cross-border e-commerce website product homogenization content is serious, in most cases in the Google webmaster tools to submit the site map URL, there will still be a lot of product details page is not searched for, prompted by the index has not been indexed into the collection. Open Instant Indexing can help this part of the content is included.

 

SEO Analysis

Analyze the SEO profile of the website and give recommendations for optimization.

The following items affect speed and thus SEO indirectly, and actually have no direct effect on SEO. If your site is fast enough, ignore these tips.

Below is a hint that there is no ALT (Alternative Text) for the logo image, find the corresponding image in the media library and click on it to edit the image. Find the "Alternative Text" input box on the right side, and enter the name of the image into it.

Ignore that there is no direct impact on SEO.

Click to viewMore detailsThe

 

Fill in the keywords

Note: Important pages (home page, about us page, etc.) product listing pages, product detail pages, article detail pages should be filled with keywords. Click Edit Page directly (do not use Elementor to edit). The location of the keywords will be displayed at the bottom of the page.

If you are not using the Gutenberg editor to build your pages, it is recommended to switch to the classic editor, which is much easier to use and more efficient! Just install theAdvanced Editor Toolsplugin and checking the settings below in the plugin settings will switch the Gutenberg Editor to the Classic Editor.

 

If you don't know what the 3 red boxes mean, don't move them, just ignore them for best results. If you know what they mean, modify them appropriately.

First, click the "Edit Snippet" button to bring up the SEO information filling interface.

SEO Title Required, usually by copying the product/article title directly into it. Pay attention to the word count and keep it to the fifth grid from the right that lights up green.

The meta description is also required, pay attention to the number of words, to control the fifth grid on the right to light up green.

Then fill in Focus Keywords with 1 keyword.

After filling out the keywords will be scored, the following chart are scoring items. Green means up to standard, red means not up to standard need to optimize. Some of the optimization project is not directly affect SEO, just may indirectly affect, so do not do 100 points does not matter. Do more than 80 points can be.

Many people who are new to this plugin don't know what the scoring program means and how to get 100 points. there is actually a tutorial on the Rank Math website, click here to check it out!What each rating means and how to achieve 100 pointsThe

 

Disable certain keyword scoring items for Rank Math

In the page, product, article and other editing page after entering keywords will be SEO scoring, some scoring items are not very practical, you can add the following code to disable the corresponding scoring items to improve the score.

If it isChinese WebsiteAdd the following code to "Appearance" > Theme File Editor > Select Child Theme in the upper right corner > Click "functions.php" on the right side to edit the file, copy all the code below and paste it into functions.php. Save the file at the bottom.

//Disable Rank Math Some SEO Scoring Programsadd_filter('rank_math/researches/tests', function ($tests, $type) {unset($tests['lengthContent'],//Disable article length detection$tests['titleHasNumber'],// Disable the detection of whether the title contains numbers or not$tests['keywordInPermalink'],//Disable keyword detection in permalink URLs$tests['keywordDensity'],//Disable keyword density detection$tests['hasContentAI'],//Disable AI function detection                $tests['isReviewEnabled']//Disabled Product Evaluation Functional Testing);return $tests;}, 10, 2);

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Some of the above disabled scoring items are not very applicable to Chinese, some are not compatible with Chinese, so it is better to disable them. If you don't want to disable some of the above items, you can set the correspondingregimentationJust delete the code.

 

If it is a 2B English website, mainly for Google SEO, add the following code to "Appearance" > Theme File Editor > select child theme in the upper right corner > click "functions.php" edit file on the right side, copy all the code below Copy all the code below and paste it to the bottom of the functions.php file and save it.

To add more disable hooks remember to add the penultimate hook after the , Symbol.

//Disable Rank Math Some SEO Scoring Programsadd_filter('rank_math/researches/tests', function ($tests, $type) {unset($tests['titleHasNumber'],// Disable the detection of whether the title contains numbers or not$tests['hasContentAI'],//Disable AI function detection                $tests['isReviewEnabled']//Disabled Product Evaluation Functional Testing);return $tests;}, 10, 2);

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Rank Math other scoring program hooks list, more hooks or disable the method please click on theView DetailsThe

contentHasTOC	keywordInContent	linksHasInternal
contentHasShortParagraphs	keywordInSubheadings	linksHasExternals
contentHasAssets	keywordInImageAlt	linksNotAllExternals
keywordInTitle	keywordDensity	titleStartWithKeyword
keywordInMetaDescription	keywordNotUsed	titleSentiment
keywordInPermalink	lengthContent	titleHasPowerWords
keywordIn10Percent	lengthPermalink	titleHasNumber
isReviewEnabled

 

 

Export keywords meta field to source code

By default, the page source code does not display the keywords meta field, because it basically does not have any positive significance. Some customers insist on displaying the keywords meta, which may be helpful for Baidu SEO (in fact, no).

Add the following code to Appearance > Theme File Editor > select the child theme in the upper right corner > click "functions.php"Edit the file, copy all the code below and paste it into the functions.php file at the bottom and save it.

/* print  to page source code */add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/show_keywords', '__return_true');

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Frequently Asked Questions & Solutions

Please go to the Rank Math plugin purchase page on theFrequently Asked Questions & SolutionsPlates.