Drop in rankings

#73399
  • Resolved Yonatan
    Rank Math pro
    Content AI Starter

    Hi,
    I switched from All in one SEO to rank math about 2 months ago. I see every day that I drop in rankings on my keywords. am I doing something wrong or? It’s weird that I still see the old title on my home page on google search even though I changed it when I switched to rank math. it does not update? Please help.

    Regards
    Yonatan

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  • Hello,

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

    These are some of the issues I have noted:
    1. A number of pages such as yourdomain/shop__trashed/ lead to 404 which Google can sometimes take as a sign of poor site maintenance. To cover this, you can enable Rank math 404 monitor moule and redirect any 404 hits.
    2. Your site robots.txt seem to be missing sitemap reference. Please add this or remove any robots.txt modifcations to allow Rank math to generate the file virtually and automatically.
    3. Your pages seem to have duplicate description meta, and user defined meta name= "title". Please remove this to use Rank math meta. You can also follow this troubleshooting guide to find the plugin or them adding this to your pages: https://rankmath.com/kb/check-plugin-conflicts/

    If you haven’t, please submit your main sitemap to GSC and check if there are any errors reported on your console that may be affecting your site. It is generally hard to know what exactly caused a drop in your rankings. It could be a setting you changed, a Google core update that was released, or just that your target keywords aren’t getting searched as much.

    You can read more about it here: https://moz.com/blog/diagnosing-traffic-drops-during-a-crisis

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

    Yonatan
    Rank Math pro
    Content AI Starter

    Hello,
    Thank you for your quick answers and excellent support

    1. have already enabled Rank math 404 monitor module and redirect
    2. In the case of robots.txt modifications. got help from your support team to remove it. Can you please and see if it is true. I’m not sure when you say that. Please look at it. I do not know where to do.

    3. I installed “Health Check” as you said and checked. found nothing.

    Has difficulty finding duplicate description meta. Can you please tell me where I can find them? I looked through pages but without success.

    // Yonatan

    Alberto
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    It seems like your website is down so we can’t check it (as I show you in the screenshot I added in the Sensitive Data section). Could you check it?

    Looking forward to help you.

    Yonatan
    Rank Math pro
    Content AI Starter

    Hello,

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

    Thank you.

    Yonatan
    Rank Math pro
    Content AI Starter

    Hi Alberto,
    I checked it. It is not down. Can you Please check it. Thanks.

    // Yonatan

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Yonatan.
    Alberto
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    In your theme options you have a tab called SEO Info which when enabled, it was adding that extra meta description. I disabled it and now everything is working fine, could you check it?

    Looking forward to help you.

    Yonatan
    Rank Math pro
    Content AI Starter

    Tanks, i will check it.

    Can you Please look att if
    robots.txt modifcations to allow Rank math to generate the file virtually and automatically. MIchael Said samthing about it. Thanks.

    //Yonatan

    Hello,

    Your robots.txt had the following:

    
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /wp-admin/
    

    I removed that and left it empty to let Rank math handle the option dynamically.

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

    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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