Hello, we apologize for the issue you are facing. It seems that Rank Math is not recognizing the keyword in your excerpt box as being at the beginning of the content. This could be due to how Rank Math evaluates the placement of the focus keyword.
Rank Math checks if the focus keyword appears in the first 10% of the content, which includes the actual content of the post itself, not just the excerpt. If the keyword is only in the excerpt and not in the main content, it may not pass this test.
To ensure that Rank Math recognizes your keyword, you might want to include it directly in the first paragraph of your post content as well. This way, it will be detected by Rank Math and you should see a green tick indicating that the focus keyword is present at the beginning of your content.
If you have any further questions or need assistance, please feel free to reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further!
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further to the above message, it also did not detect the hyperlinks (internal and external links that are in the excerpt) why?
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention.
Rank Math’s SEO test focuses on the main content of your page, not the excerpt.
This is why keywords and links within the excerpt box aren’t recognized in the analysis.
To ensure they are detected, please try placing the focus keyword and any internal/external links within the main content.
Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
This does not answer my question. Do search engines detect the content in the excerpt and read them as the first paragraph in the page as I included it in the page?
Does the excerpt get indexed or it is not indexed as rank math show?
Hello,
If the template that you are using includes the excerpt at the beginning of the page, Google will be able to see the same.
Our plugin won’t parse the excerpt, even if you add it to the page via your template files.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
