New Member Need Help

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  • Resolved Dean Wilson
    Rank Math free

    I am new to Rank math and so far loving it. My problem is my Seo Score which is shown when I make a new post. I can get the score in a range from 50-80, which varies for different posts. My question is will it be ok like that? Does it have to be at 80 or above to be picked up by search engines.

    Also I put my focus keywords from the title and H1 line and sometimes it is low score.
    Thanks
    Dean

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  • Todd
    Rank Math free

    Hi Dean,

    Thanks for getting in touch with us.

    That is perfectly fine. Not every post can be in the top 20 percentage and that is okay.

    The score is there only for your reference anyway and doesn’t affect your actual rankings. Treat it only as a to-do list, nothing more. Don’t try to live by it and don’t follow the tests religiously.

    So, a post score 100 can still struggle to break the top 10 spots while another one that hasn’t even set a focus keyword can rank at #1.

    Please note that ranking on Google depends on so much more than just your on-page optimization, which is what the SEO Score helps you achieve. 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-factors

    I would recommend that you keep at it and work on acquiring more links to break into the top SERPs.

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Thank you so very much!

    May I ask one more question, then I promise to leave you alone?

    I have successfully created my xml sitemap with Rank Math and submitted it to Google (Got a can’t fetch error). Do I need to add it somewhere on my wordpress site or did the plugin do that?

    Thanks
    Dean

    Hi Dean,

    Thanks for the follow up.

    You don’t need to worry about this, you have already followed the rights steps and the couldnt fetch error should resolve itself in the next couple of days.

    This is normally caused by a long processing queue.

    I hope this info helps. Thank you.

    Thanks

    Todd
    Rank Math free

    Hi Dean,

    We are so glad to be of help. We are always here if you need us in the future.

    Hey, if it isn’t too much to ask for – would you mind leaving us a review here?

    https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post

    It only takes a couple of minutes but helps us tremendously.

    It would mean so much to us.

    Thank you.

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