How to get RM to ignore all EDD downloads

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  • Resolved Howard Soroka

    4 years, 2 months ago

    Rank Math free

    I am using Rank Math on an eCommerce site (built with Elementor Pro), with Easy Digital Downloads. I have a Store page which is NOT INDEXED, using EDD’s shortcode to display a list of products.

    Some of the products on the Store page have affiliate links to Apple’s iTunes Store, as in the following example:

    These links are embedded in the “full content” of each product – a custom post of type “download”.

    With Rank Math enabled, these links, when clicked, are transformed into longer links, to Google Analytics, with the original link embedded as an outbound link. This breaks the iTunes link – it simply does nothing when clicked.

    I have no need for these individual download products, or any iTunes links, to be tracked in any way, or for them to be seen by search engines.

    I am trying to figure out how to get Rank Math to STOP transforming the iTunes links into Google Analytics links, or even better, to get Rank Math to simply ignore all “downloads” altogether, site-wide.

    How can I get Rank Math to simply ignore all posts of type “download”, and never try to track them via Google Analytics or any other means?

    Thanks,

    -HS

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  • Alberto

    4 years, 2 months ago

    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    Could you share (in the Sensitive Data section) a sample of the URL that is getting transformed so we can check it and try to advise you?

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Howard Soroka

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math free

    Hi Alberto,

    It won’t help to give you access to the site, because it’s designed to be accessed from within a MacOS application via the Webkit/WebView API, which is used to embed web functionality into a MacOS app. It won’t do you any good to visit the site in a general-purpose Browser such as Safari or Chrome.

    However, you can probably help me just by explaining how I can disable Rank Math’s modification of outbound URLs originating from a specific page within my site. The page in question is not indexed, but outbound URLs from it are still getting redirected to Google Analytics – this is precisely what I need to disable.

    I have tried to find this myself, but Rank Math has many, many options, and seems to assume a level of expertise with SEO that I do not have. I am a software developer (for MacOS apps) however, and do not need to be treated as a totally naive user.

    I am only using the the following modules of Rank Math, but even when I disable all of them, RM is still redirecting outbound URLs.

    404 monitor
    SEO Analysis
    Link Counter
    Search Console
    Sitemap

    Note that the user agent for the WebView API is “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko)”. This may or may not be relevant. It is different for Safari, which is the browser I generally use.

    Any help you can offer would be most appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Howard

    Uzair

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    Rank Math doesn’t modify your outbound or inbound links and doesn’t add any tracking elements to it including Google Analytics.

    Without more details, we will have to take a guess on what might be the issue.

    1. Please disable the open in new tab option at WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > Links
    2. Disable the nofollow option from the same page.
    3. If both these don’t work, it is possible that the noopener rel tag that Rank Math adds is causing this issue. You can use the below code in your theme’s functions.php file to get rid of it:
    add_filter( 'rank_math/noopener', '__return_false' );

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    RankBot

    4 years, 1 month 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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