Headless CMS question – How to link subdomain to real domain for SEO reports

Hello,

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

To fix the internal link issue, please add the following filter code to your theme’s functions.php file and Reset the links data from Database tools – https://rankmath.com/kb/link-counter/#reset-internal-links-data

add_filter( 'rank_math/links/link_type', function( $type, $link ) {
	$link_parts = wp_parse_url( $link );
	if ( isset( $link_parts['host'] ) && 'website.com' === $link_parts['host'] ) {
		return 'internal';
	}

	return $type;
}, 10, 2 );

This should fix the Internal/External link count on your site.

Also, when we try to Open in New Tab for External domains, it’s causing our ‘website.com’ links to open in New Tab, because everything shows as ‘wp.website.com’ in the WordPress subdomain.

I couldn’t reproduce this issue on my setup. Can you please add your site’s Admin access in the Sensitive Data section by editing the first post on this ticket?

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.

Hello,

I logged into your site and changed the filter code to following:

add_filter( 'rank_math/links/link_type', function( $type, $link ) {
	$link_parts = wp_parse_url( $link );
	if ( isset( $link_parts['host'] ) && ( 'www.gunmade.com' === $link_parts['host'] || 'gunmade.com' === $link_parts['host'] ) ) {
		return 'internal';
	}

	return $type;
}, 10, 2 );

This seemed to have fixed the issue: https://i.rankmath.com/i/O38EyL

Can you please confirm?

If you change settings in Rank Math to Open External links in New Tab, it opens the website.com links In New Tab. We would like to be categorize website.com links similar to wp.website.com 🙂

We cannot check this issue on your staging site as the domain is cloudwaysapps.com. Please add your live site admin access in the Sensitive Data Section

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

Thank you for sharing the admin access. I see the issue on your site and I could also reproduce it on my setup. Please allow us some time to test and release a fix.

For now, to fix the issue on your site, I have added the following code on line 81 in seo-by-rank-math/vendor/mythemeshop/wordpress-helpers/src/helpers/class-url.php file:

$domain = str_replace('wp.', '', $domain);

This seemed to have fixed the issue. Can you please confirm?

I hope that helps.

Hello,

It does not report domain.com links as Internal links in the Rank Math report though… Did you find a solution for that part as well?

In the post column, I see it is correctly reporting the main domain link as internal. Please check the screenshot I added in the Sensitive Data Section.

Looking forward to helping you.