Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.
Targeting more than one post/page for the same focus keyword is not ideal or recommended. You can also check the link below for more information:
https://ahrefs.com/blog/keyword-cannibalization/
Optimizing two different pages/posts with the same keyword means your content won’t be so unique to the different pages. Here is a deeper description of this test: https://rankmath.com/kb/score-100-in-tests/#focus-keyword-uniqueness-primary-focus-keyword-only
I hope that helps.
Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime if you need further assistance with anything else.
Thanks for replying team
Actually, the same page is open in “/” or without “/”
eg:-
https://www.theholidaystory.com/metcalfe-town-hall-kolkata/
https://www.theholidaystory.com/metcalfe-town-hall-kolkata
Hello,
Please consider adding the redirection with the / so that the slash issue will be fixed. You can do that with the Rank Math redirection module or also with .htaccess rule.
You can learn more about here:
https://rankmath.com/kb/setting-up-redirections/
Hope that helps. Thank you and please don’t hesitate to contact us if you need further assistance.
Hi Ankit
Thanks for the reply. I go through the video but was unable to find the process that suits me. Can you please guide me on what exactly to do?
How to fix it for all pages?
Thanks,
Ruma
Hello,
Please try this regex redirect to force all your URLs to have the trailing slash (/) in Rank Math > Redirections:
Source: /(.*)
Type: Regex
Target: https://www.theholidaystory.com/$1/
I hope that helps.
Thank you.
Hello,
Could you please check if you already have any rules defined in your .htaccess? If there is any, please kindly remove it and test again.
Do let us know how it goes.
We are looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
The temporarylogin link and htaccess file in the sensitive data field.
Hello,
Please kindly add the below code in your .htaccess file to force URL to add slash at the end of the URL:
# Force trailing slash
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [L,R=301]
Since we don’t have FTP details of your server, You would need to add those values.
I hope that helps. Thank you, and looking forward to your update.
Hello,
I tried to login into your website to check the added htaccess rules, but it seems like the login link is already expired.
Please extend the expiry of the login link so that we can further investigate the issue.
Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Oh!..It’s extended, Kindly login.
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.
