Discrepancy between Rank Math findings and content

Hello,

We recently decided to try Rank Math after several years of using Yoast. Your toolset seems very promising but it doesn’t seem to work as we would expect. Our site — https://vendorful.ai — uses Thrive Themes on top of WordPress. According to their docs, RankMath is supported: https://help.thrivethemes.com/en/articles/4804741-how-does-rank-math-work-with-thrive-themes. And indeed, it works sometimes.

However, we regularly see a discrepancy between the suggestions and the content. For example, today, I looked at a posting with a score of 43. We lost points for, among other things:

Focus Keyword in the first 10% of the content.
Focus Keyword found in the content.
Content length.

When I looked at the content, these were actually not problems. In this case, I saved the content in the Thrive Editor and the score instantly increased to 73 and then to to a 77. I’ve discovered that this works pretty reliably. Opening the Thrive editor and re-saving the content with no changes provides a big boost. But this means that we don’t know the true scores for our posts/pages until we do this.

I then took on some of the other suggestions, including a number and a power word in the title and changing the length of the URL. After I made the changes and saved them, Rank Math still indicates that these are problems.

• Your title doesn’t contain a positive or a negative sentiment word.
• Your title doesn’t contain a power word. Add at least one.

Your SEO title doesn’t contain a number.

This is the title I’m using: Responding to RFPs: 4 Ways Vendorful’s AI Changes the Painful Game

You can see a number and the word “painful” is both a power word and a negative sentiment word. Despite that, all of the items listed above are marked as failures.

Any ideas on what’s happening here?

Thanks,
David
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