title, descriptions and basic SEO not implementing

#68241
  • Resolved Alison Angold

    4 years, 4 months ago

    Rank Math free

    My titles and meta description are not showing up on Google – only random excerpts from my post. As you seem to post the same replies to a lot of people in this same situation on this forum, (and replied to me the exact same on Facebook), I have already done as you have suggested regarding schema. But I don’t understand a lot of the information you have then given , especially about cache. Also the basic SEO for Rank Math – on my actual post, isn’t working. I put my keyword into my title, description, first paragraph, and H2, H3 headings, and Rank Math is giving me ‘red’ signs saying I haven’t so my SEO score is poor! I am so frustrated as I moved from Yoast to rank Math as I was told it was simple and help me rank better. Please, please help!!

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  • Michael Davis

    4 years, 4 months ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
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    We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
    Sensitive Data Section

    It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

    You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

    We really look forward to helping you.

    Alison Angold

    4 years, 4 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hello,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?

    Thank you.

    Alison Angold

    4 years, 4 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Thanks I have sent you this information, look forward to hearing from you soon as I need to get this sorted so I can forge forward with effective SEO

    Alberto

    4 years, 4 months ago

    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    I am checking it but it would be easier for us to identify the issue if you let us know if it happens on every post or just in some of them. In case it is in some of them, could you share in the Sensitive Data section the URLs of some of the affected posts?

    Looking forward to help you.

    Alison Angold

    4 years, 4 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hello,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?

    Thank you.

    Alison Angold

    4 years, 4 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Thank you for looking into this.

    The meta description, I have used is not showing up on Google on all my posts. It is just showing random excerpts from my post.

    My domain name and tag line – Beauty Taming The Beast – skincare & self-care for menopause and beyond, is showing up every time on Google too – after the random post description. I don’t want this happening.

    The basic SEO, on each post – some is being implemented on some posts, but not all. I have included the URL of my most recent post. On this post, I have followed your guidelines, however am still seeing red crosses, for most of the SEO points.

    Uzair

    4 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    Thanks for getting in touch with us.

    1. First of all, I am assuming that you have already changed the SEO Meta Title and Meta Description with the help of Rank Math:

    Add a Meta Description in Classic Editor: https://i.rankmath.com/dhECkg
    Add title and description in Gutenberg: https://i.rankmath.com/ZO21Cd

    2. Then, ensure that this is the setting in the Schema tab if Rich Snippets are enabled on your website:
    https://i.rankmath.com/pG0pcS

    To reiterate, the Schema title must show %seo_title% and the description should show %seo_description% – this will ensure your SEO title and SEO Description that you set up via Rank Math can also be used for your schema details:

    3. The next step is to check if your title/description is properly set up in the page source:
    https://i.rankmath.com/HwXR1o

    You can use this tool for the same as well: https://www.heymeta.com/

    4. If it matches your settings, then you must check if Google has seen the changes already or not.

    For that, please check when the Google cache was updated for that page:
    a. https://i.rankmath.com/9q6X0H
    b. https://i.rankmath.com/R8N0Uh

    If the cache date is from before adding the new meta description, then you just have to wait for Google to re-crawl and re-index the page with the new info. If the date is after you made the changes,then you just have to wait it out and there is no further input needed from your end.

    Do note that if everything’s fine and Google still decides to show a different meta title/description for your search keyword, there is nothing you can do as Google sometimes ignores the custom meta info altogether and show something from the page’s content that matches the search intent better.

    Here are some of the common reasons Google might not use the meta description you provided:
    – The meta description is not relevant or useful (ie, just a collection of keywords).
    – The exact same meta description is provided across a large number of pages.
    – The meta description doesn’t match what the user is searching for, but other content on the page does.

    There is a whole article dedicated to this on SearchEngineJournal:
    https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-offers-suggestions-for-avoiding-meta-description-rewrites/359884/

    Here is an example showing Google changes title depending on keyword used:
    https://i.rankmath.com/oT6VQe
    &
    https://i.rankmath.com/Mrhb0x

    The best you can do is optimize your meta tags to try and match the intent of the search/keyword.

    Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.

    RankBot

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.

    If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.

    Thank you.

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