Hello,
I apologize for the inconvenience you are facing with the migration from Yoast to Rank Math in your WooCommerce shop. When importing data from Yoast to Rank Math, the custom product SEO titles and product meta descriptions might not get imported correctly, resulting in Rank Math adding its own meta descriptions and using unchanged general product titles as SEO titles.
To address this issue, you can follow these steps:
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Check Product Meta Descriptions in Rank Math:
- Navigate to WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta → Products.
- Ensure that the Single Product Description field contains the correct meta description for each product. You can enter custom descriptions or use variables to auto-generate relevant descriptions.
- Click on Save Changes after adding or updating the descriptions.
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Verify SEO Titles in Rank Math:
- Check the SEO titles for each product in Rank Math to ensure they are set correctly.
- You can edit the SEO titles by navigating to the respective product editing screen and updating the SEO title in the Rank Math SEO General tab.
If the issue persists after following these steps, please provide more details or screenshots of the specific products where the custom SEO titles and meta descriptions are not being imported correctly. This will help us investigate further and provide you with a more tailored solution.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and we appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this issue for you.
Sources:
How to Migrate from Rank Math to Yoast » Rank Math
Migrating from Yoast SEO to Rank Math SEO » Rank Math
General Tab in Meta Box of Rank Math SEO Plugin
How to Show Images in the Search Results » Rank Math
How to Set Product Meta Description Using Rank Math » Rank Math
Hello,
Can you please try importing the data again in Rank Math > Status & Tools > Import & Export and see the log if there’s any error shown? Please share a screenshot of the error if you see any.
If there’s none, 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.
Hi. Below is the import log with some errores, please check it and let me know:
[20:53:37] Import started…
[20:53:37] Importing settings
[20:53:38] Ajustes importados correctamente.
[20:53:38] Importing postmeta
[20:53:38] Importados los datos meta de entrada para las entradas 1 – 100 de 4668
[20:53:38] Importing postmeta
[20:53:39] Importados los datos meta de entrada para las entradas 101 – 200 de 4668
[20:53:39] Importing postmeta
[20:53:40] Importados los datos meta de entrada para las entradas 201 – 300 de 4668
[20:53:40] Importing postmeta
[20:53:42] error
[20:53:42] Importing termmeta
[20:53:43] error
[20:53:43] Importing usermeta
[20:53:45] error
[20:53:45] Importing redirections
[20:53:47] error
[20:53:47] Importing blocks
[20:53:49] error
[20:53:49] Importing locations
[20:53:50] error
[20:53:50] Importing news
[20:53:52] error
[20:53:52] Importing video
[20:53:53] error
[20:53:53] Starting SEO score recalculation
[20:53:56] error
[20:53:56] Import finished.
To import custom product SEO titles and meta descriptions from Yoast to RankMath:
1. Export your SEO data from Yoast in a compatible format (e.g., CSV).
2. Ensure the format aligns with RankMath’s import requirements.
3. Access RankMath’s import feature and follow the prompts to upload your file.
4. Review the imported data to ensure accuracy and make adjustments if necessary.
5. Save changes and monitor SEO performance in RankMath’s interface.
Hello,
Please share access to your website with us so we can help investigate this issue. Please follow the steps we shared above. You can also share access to a staging copy of your website with the same issue.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Jeremy and Great, before I continue with login credentials, can you please confirm if the import of SEO titles and meta descriptions is supported? I don’t see the option here: https://imgur.com/a/1jROX37
Hello,
Yes, importing the data from other plugins is available in the Free version of our plugin but we can see that the import fails after 300 posts/pages on your website, judging by the log you shared previously.
Please make sure that you have at least the following server resources so that the import has a greater chance to complete:
PHP Memory Limit: 512M
Max input time: 150
PHP time limit: 120
PHP max input variables: 1000
Hope this helps solve your issues.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
We were able to import successfully the entire data from Yoast SEO into Rank Math and if you check the example product you shared, or any other which had data in Yoast SEO, you’ll see the same data in our plugin.
We left the Rank Math plugin active and deactivated Yoast SEO so you are only using one SEO plugin at the moment.
The data from Yoast SEO is all still available in the database so if you want to activate it again, you won’t lose anything from that plugin.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
Thank you very much, it is working now
Hello,
We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
