Despite Rank Math Pro, thousands of pages not indexed

Hello,

You can refer to these two articles where we explained the causes and resolution of the Discovered – currently not indexed, and Crawled – currently not indexed reports on Google Search Console.

1. https://rankmath.com/kb/discovered-currently-not-indexed/
2. https://rankmath.com/kb/crawled-currently-not-indexed/

Please note that only Google determines what to show in search result pages.

Likewise, ranking on Google depends on so much more than just your on-page optimization. You could search for your keyword or post title, or have the perfect article and still struggle to break the top 10 results when searching on Google, especially for highly competitive keywords.

Here are some of the factors Google considers when ranking your website.

1. Your website’s authority
2. Your content’s quality and how better it is than the other article currently ranking.
3. How competitive the keyword you are using is.
4. How many backlinks you have and if they are better than what the other websites ranking for that keyword have.
5. Your website’s crawlability.
6. Frequency of new content and content updates.
7. So much more that there is a dedicated blog post on it by Brian Dean 🙂 https://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factors

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

Hello,

The data in the SEO Analytics is generated from the SEO score of your posts and pages.

If your posts/pages already have a good SEO score but not showing on Site Analytics then please head over to your WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Status & Tools > Database Tools and click the Rebuild Index button.

Depending on the number of posts/pages on your website this process can take a few minutes to an hour to complete.

However, you mentioned you’re currently using the Rank Math PRO plugin on your website, but the account you have used to open this ticket is the Rank Math free version.

Can you please search and forward a receipt from FastSpring.com so we can locate your account and verify it?

Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.

Hello,

You need to add or set up focus keyword (s) for Rank Math to be able to run a content analysis test to assign SEO scores on your pages/posts.

However, you can refer to this guide to automate the insertion of the focus keywords: https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-automate-the-insertion-of-focus-keyword/

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

Hello,

In the same article, we provided an alternative snippet for when you only want to set the post title as a focus keyword for the posts that don’t have a focus keyword set yet.

See: https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-automate-the-insertion-of-focus-keyword/#:~:text=if%20you%20wish%20to%20set%20the%20post%20title%20as%20a%20focus%20keyword%20only%20for%20the%20posts%20that%20don%E2%80%99t%20have%20a%20focus%20keyword%20set,%20then%20use%20the%20following%20code%20instead

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

Hello,

You are meant to create the rank-math.php file at wp-content/themes/theme-name/.

Alternatively, you can use the Code Snippet plugin to implement the code on your site.

We discussed 3 methods you can use to add a Rank Math filter to your site here: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Here is the code again for your convenience:

/**
 * Function to automatically update the focus keyword with the post title, if no focus keyword is set
 */
function update_focus_keywords() {
    $posts = get_posts(array(
    'posts_per_page'	=> -1,
    'post_type'		=> 'post' // Replace post with the name of your post type
    ));
    foreach($posts as $p){
        // Checks if Rank Math keyword already exists and only updates if it doesn't have it
        $rank_math_keyword = get_post_meta( $p->ID, 'rank_math_focus_keyword', true );
	if ( ! $rank_math_keyword ){ 
            update_post_meta($p->ID,'rank_math_focus_keyword',strtolower(get_the_title($p->ID)));
        }
    }
}
add_action( 'init', 'update_focus_keywords' );

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

Hello,

In this case, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.

Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.

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.