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Thanks for the support, I do not see ✅ Done-for-you Rank Math PRO setup – Premium Care has you covered. at this time in the account since I am unable to check the video sitemap option in Rank Math. I have also listed a few challenges and appreciate your help.
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2. I am using elementor on wordpress and both seem to be syncing the SEO, although I am unable to save or update the wordpress interface Rankmath and the seo scores seem to fluctuate, not record the SItename in keywords.
image.pnghere is another one to see the difference, this is before the above, all keywords were green and I was on page 1 for the same. and the day later it’s not reading the same.
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while on the wordpress dashboard it says 96 and has focus keyword but not recording it. Both are below.
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Finally, There is a noindex and nofollow tag in the header that is blocking crawlers to read and also marking me down on SEO.image.png
I am still trying to figure out if Rankmath is the solution. Everyone ranking on page 1 are using Yoast and I ranked in page 1 on 3th place for performx performance marketing, now I am not. Below is the snippet were the Site Name hasnt updated a yet it came through, it got rid of the dash.
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How can there be such high fluctuations and also please let me know whats I am not doing. Also some Social Cards are mssing it reports. I am happy to get the edition of your product provided I know it works as good.
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Hello,
We apologize for the issues you are facing with your Rank Math setup and the fluctuations in your SEO performance. Thank you for providing detailed information about your challenges.
Addressing Your Concerns:
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Multiple robots.txt Files: It’s important to ensure that there is only one active robots.txt file. You can manage this directly within Rank Math by navigating to Rank Math SEO → General Settings → robots.txt. Make sure there are no conflicting rules that might be blocking search engines from crawling your site.
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Sitemap Issues: If you are unable to check the video sitemap option, please ensure that the Sitemap module is enabled in Rank Math. You can verify this by going to Rank Math SEO → Dashboard and checking the Modules section. If it’s enabled, you can configure your sitemaps under Rank Math SEO → Sitemap Settings. For more guidance, refer to our article on configuring Sitemaps in Rank Math.
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SEO Score Fluctuations: Fluctuations in SEO scores can be caused by various factors, including changes in search engine algorithms, competition, and on-page SEO factors. Ensure that your focus keywords are correctly set in the Rank Math metabox and that you are following best practices for SEO.
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Noindex and Nofollow Tags: If there are noindex and nofollow tags in your header that are blocking crawlers, you will need to remove these tags. You can do this by checking the settings in the Rank Math metabox for each page or post and ensuring that they are set to index.
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Social Cards Missing: For social cards, ensure that you have configured the Open Graph settings in Rank Math. You can find these settings under Rank Math SEO → Social Meta. Make sure to fill out the necessary fields for Facebook and Twitter.
Professional Setup Service
If you would like a comprehensive review and setup of your Rank Math plugin to ensure everything is configured correctly according to the latest SEO standards, we recommend our Rank Math professional setup service. This service requires a PRO subscription and is designed for users who want to ensure their plugin setup is fully optimized.
Please reply to this ticket with any specific URLs or additional details about your site so that a human agent can assist you further with these issues. We appreciate your patience and look forward to helping you resolve these challenges!
Sources:
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
Analyzing Your Site’s SEO with Rank Math’s SEO Analysis ToolThis is an automated reply from Rank Math Support Bot. Your ticket has been assigned to a human agent and we will get back to you shortly.
Thank you for your prompt reply. I am not using the pro version at this time and understand the upsell here and I agree to upgrade, however I need to know Rankmath can do what it takes to be on top. Now as an agency this will go on multiple of my clients and I need to be sure.
So to arrive at a win-win for both of us, I would request you to leverage your expertise of your offerings and prove that this works as good and you have a me subscribed.
Here are some of the competition that I am referencing so that you can check it yourself.
Performx.co.in (Not using any seo plugin, he is using wix and their seo)
Performx.co (Look at it and tell me if he should)
performxwithharsh.com (Using Yoast)Now I have used multiple SEO checker tools and in all places I have a better score but not ranking, for performx or performx performance marketing or performance marketing agency. I mean I am on the 8th page guys.
Hello,
It looks like you’re trying to share screenshot images. Please share your images using this tool instead: https://imgur.com/upload
Please follow this guide to help you resolve the focus keyword not saving: https://rankmath.com/kb/meta-data-not-saving/
As for your pages marked as
noindex, please share some of the affected pages here so we can check further.Last but not least, for your ranking issue, please note that ranking on Google depends on so much more than just your on-page optimization. You could have the perfect article and still struggle to break the top 10 in SERPs. Here are some of the factors Google considers when ranking you:
1. Your website’s authority
2. Your content’s quality and how better it is than the other article currently ranking.
3. How competitive the keyword is.
4. How many backlinks you have and if they are better than what the other guys ranking for that keyword have.
5. Your website’s crawlability.
6. Frequency of new content and content updates.
7. So much more that there is a dedicated blog post on it by Brian Dean 🙂 https://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factorsLastly, Google brings a new algorithmic update several times a month and the chances are great that your website got hit by that.
We have a full guide on that: https://rankmath.com/blog/google-algorithm-update-recovery/
And if you are using Rank Math PRO, you can even see if the drop in traffic co-relates to an algorithm update. Here’s how:
https://rankmath.com/kb/google-algorithm-updates/
Looking forward to helping you on this one.
Hi Jeremy,
I have shared a detailed overview through the link that your shared for screenshots, I have snipped my previous email so as you have the scenario and it helps understand this. Now I understand there are multiple reasons and I may be best and still not ranking but here are the findings that indicate there is something that may be not reading right.
Image 1(rankmath1) – I am using elementor on wordpress and both seem to be syncing the SEO or may be not, although I am unable to save or update the wordpress interface Rankmath and the seo scores seem to fluctuate, not record the Sitename in keywords.
If you notice in the image (rankmath1) i have edited the snippet to ‘performx’ without the hyphen now and removed the ‘full stack’ but it doesn’t record that in the image (rankmath8). when
Image 2(rankmath2) – The circle are all keywords that appeared green and I was ranking for page one as in image8(rankmath8), then all turned yellow and suddenly Im not, again an elementor and rankamth sync issue. So when checked in the elementor page, its shows the 96 but its not allowing me to rank for all the keywords in image rankamth2. (may be thats why it turned from green to yellow)
Image 3- Is the where the rankmath on elementor shows 96 but doesnt take the keywords from image2(rankmath2)
Image 6 – (rankmath6) – sitemap blocked by robot.txt, not sure if google can crawl all pages, as don’t see sitelinks for pages and cards for Instagram, Twitter Facebook or Linkedin or the video.
Image8 – (rankmath8) – Is the google search result coinciding with the keyword changes made on image on image2(rankmath2), however if you may notice the hyphen of performx (PERFORM-X) and full stack still appear (which was edited to bring performance marketing closer for serach snippets) and yet I am ranking, hence I am ranking for the new changes but snippet served is older, so there is a mixup.
So i did an extensive competitive research and identified more and Images 9 Image 10 and Image 11 will help indicate that I,
Image9 – (rankmath9) – the competition – (performx.co.in) meta content, along with 2 others.
Image10- On Page Analysis – 72 points with 17 task (5 medium priority and 12 low priority)
Image11 – On Page Analysis – 78 Points with 11 tasks (5 medium priority and 6 low priority).Now here is another that supports the same however something is blocking for the seo to work to its full.
Image 1- rankmath12 – Google Page Speed Insights – 100 on page and technical.This Link you shared does not work – {“data”:{“error”:”Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later.”},”success”:false,”status”:500}
So i have shared a google folder – here is the link – https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bCf-7D4nQSFAxt_LaTWp7PKCRIaHoFoc?usp=sharing
(It contains the images and Text to read, Only people with the link can access this.)I have tried to bring as much intelligence to help solve this, hoping you would do due diligence in investigating this, You can also call me if its expedites the process, I am available 24/7 on +91-9916213270 India Cell, or +1-747-666-5009 US. Looking out for your reply.
Thank you.
Hello,
1. 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/
2 & 8. Rank Math’s keyword scoring may differ if you check from the classic or block editor, as it may not read all content built with Elementor. For more accurate results, please open the page in Elementor and check the SEO analysis there.
Also, secondary keywords can change from green to yellow because each keyword has its own optimization tests that need to be met individually.
3. We need to check the issue on your website once you provide your WP admin login.
6. This is not an issue as XML Sitemaps are designed to be crawled by search engines, not indexed. The
X-Robots-Tag: noindexdirective ensures that the sitemap itself does not appear in search results, but this does not prevent Google from crawling its contents and indexing the pages listed within it.There’s no need to worry, as this is the expected behavior for sitemaps.
Please avoid submitting your XML sitemaps to Google Search Console’s URL Inspection tool as that tool is meant for HTML pages.
You can properly submit your sitemap to your Google Search Console account by following this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/
However, if you still wish to remove the noindex tag from your sitemap for any specific reason, you can use the filter in your site:
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/http_headers', function( $headers ) { if ( '/sitemap_index.xml' !== $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ) { return $headers; } unset( $headers['X-Robots-Tag'] ); return $headers; } );Here’s how you can add filter/hook to your WordPress site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/9, 10, and 11. Can you please share the details of your issue from the screenshot? Please share all the failed test from the SEO audit software you’re using.
12. Your site’s performance and SEO scores look excellent, and there’s no indication from this report of anything blocking SEO. If you’re still noticing ranking issues, they may be related to factors outside of on-page and technical SEO, such as competition, content quality, or backlinks.
Looking forward to helping you on this one.
Hi Jeremy, Appreciate your help with this, This conversation is now available on serp, this showed up in the search results for performx performance marketing. how do we delete this from appearing including sensitive data and links thats been shared.
Image 13 – SERP results that show this conversation and I appear below that, so there is an improvement I suppose.
From the previous message, the image 9, 10 and 11.
9 – Competitor Analysis to find no meta description and ranking, unreal.
10 – Competitor Gaps and scope for improvement. (17 errors)
11 – My competitor analysis against the competition (11 errors)
12 – SEO score on google page speed insight, (without elementor)Image 14 – With elementor on Mobile Seo score
Image 15 – with elementor on desktop seo scoreIt drops 8 points (reference Image 12)
Now further investigating has revealed it a fight for caching on server, Elementor has come up with Object cache and you guys are working with WP rocket and I am on litespeed server. Litespeed has their own caching option. Why after disabling elementor and flushing cache it appears at as in image 12.
I have been cross checking on browsers and plugin compatibility and there seem to be no issue on any other browser other than google so I am starting to understand this differently. because they are placing my GMB page on the page for both Performx and performx performance marketing, it should also ideally place me besides in the search results.
Now when i initially constructed my seo, I was marked down by google AI for cloaking, and appealed to have it investigated by a human and they found me not cloaking but the seo was on dot so it appeared to be cloaking. I had broke it to not appear on 1 (too much attention). Now rank math has me 100/100.
Its elementor and i need to check if i can be solved without making to many changes further changes to track back. In the meantime can you keep this conversation off the SERP.
PS: I have added the new images (13,14,15) in the same folder. and need a bit more information such as how long do you need this link active.
Hi Jeremy,
Just checking to see if you need the link activated for FTP access.
Hello,
This is a public forum, and all Sensitive Data information is only visible to you and us, the support team.
You seem to be sharing images again but the Google Drive folder URL you shared is currently private and we can’t access its content. Please make it publicly visible or share your screenshots/images using this tool: https://imgur.com/upload
Once we have access to your images, we should be able to accurately address all questions.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hi Jeremy, I’d much appreciate if you have this support ticket taken down from serp as requested earlier, also your reply is come after a week and I am not comfortable leaving open access to sensitive data shared in the drive. (hence i deactivated it)
The new link is included in the sensitive area.
Also do you need access to FTP and if so for how long should this activation be?
Now i understand you must be swamped but request your reply a bit sooner if possible.
Its been another 3 days to look up the shared data and expecting a reply, man this is awfully longtime to help understand the issue let alone solving this, also after requesting you multiple times this is still showing up in search engine results, I do not consent to Rankmath using data that should be for internal troubleshooting towards building content. Moreover the performance has deteriorated from bad to worst. Is this going to work?
Hello,
Sorry for the delay.
Since you’re currently using our free support, all tickets created here are public and visible to search engines. That’s why you’re seeing this thread appear in search results. If you’d prefer your support conversation to remain private, upgrading to a Rank Math PRO plan will allow you to open private tickets that are not indexed by search engines. Alternatively, if we unapprove or delete this ticket, we will no longer have access to it, which means we won’t be able to continue assisting you through this thread.
For us to properly troubleshoot the issues you’re experiencing, we’ll need access to your website. Please share your WordPress admin login and FTP credentials in the Sensitive Data section of this ticket. Only you and our support staff can see the information placed there—it will not be publicly visible. You can use this plugin to safely generate a temporary login URL:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/We do understand how important this is for you, and we’ll make sure to prioritize reviewing your setup as soon as we receive access.
Looking forward to your update so we can proceed further.
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