Migration from Yoast to your Plugin

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback, and we sincerely apologize for the challenges you’ve encountered during your migration from Yoast SEO to Rank Math.

We understand the frustration caused by the loss of focus keywords across numerous posts, pages, and products. While Rank Math does not delete any data from Yoast during migration, it’s possible that certain data may not have been imported correctly.

To address this issue:

1. Re-import Data: You can re-import your Yoast SEO data into Rank Math by navigating to Rank Math > Status & Tools > Import & Export. Under the “Other Plugins” section, select “Yoast SEO” and click “Import”. This process should restore your SEO titles, descriptions, and focus keywords.

2. Recalculate SEO Scores: After importing, some posts may display an “N/A” SEO score. This is because Rank Math needs to analyze the content to generate scores. To initiate this, go to Rank Math > Status & Tools > Database Tools and use the “Update SEO Scores” option.

For more details, you can check this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/yoast-seo-migration/

3. Concerning the Content AI issue, kindly confirm you are using the latest version of our plugin, then follow this guide to ensure your Content AI credits are loaded in your website’s WP dashboard: https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-restore-missing-content-ai-credits/

Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.

Hello,

Please share the website URL in question so we can check the validity of the sitemap.

Looking forward to hearing back from you.

Hello,

We apologise for the delay in getting back to you.

Your subsitemaps seem to be returning 503 status codes. 5xx codes are usually server-related.

Please check the PHP values of your site by going to WordPress dashboard > Tools > Site Health > Info tab > Server. These values affect the performance of your site and they should be set atleast to the following recommendations:

PHP Memory Limit: 512M
Max input time: 150
PHP time limit: 120
PHP max input variables: 1000

If any of these values are lower than the recommended ones, please contact your hosting provider and ask them to increase them for you.

Also, follow the steps below for further troubleshooting:

1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article: https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

If the issue persists then try disabling the transient cache for the sitemap. This will make sure that your XML sitemap always reflects the latest changes on your site. Kindly add this code snippet to your site:

/** 
 * Filter if XML sitemap transient cache is enabled.
 *
 * @param boolean $unsigned Enable cache or not, defaults to true
 */
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');

If you’re not sure how to add this code, you can follow this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/.

After you add the code, please clear any cache on your site or server and check your XML sitemap again. If you’re still facing issues with the sitemap, please let us know – we are happy to investigate further.

Hello,

We apologise for the experience you have had.

While this issue has not been reported by other users, and we can not reproduce it on our various local setups here, we would like an opportunity to investigate the issue on your site.

If you want us to, you can 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/

If you are uncomfortable with sharing your live site’s access, you can create a staging site instead and replicate the issue there. Then share its access with us.

You may also follow this article to create the staging website: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-staging-environment-for-a-wordpress-site/

We really look forward to hearing back from you.

Hello,

We’re sorry to hear that and respect your decision. We regret that your experience didn’t meet expectations, and we’re continuously working to improve and appreciate all feedback, even if it’s critical.

Should you reconsider in the future, we’re here to help.