not showing well in Divi - Support

Resolved Stephen Vaughan
3 years, 8 months ago

Rank Math free

Morning,

I have been using Rank Math SEO for about eight months and have used it on several sites. Yesterday I was looking at the settings in Divi Theme options and I noticed the SEO tab so I had a look.

https://ibb.co/HHkmHb4

I noticed that nothing was enabled so I decided to double check by inspecting the <head> tag. I noticed that there was no <meta name=”keywords”> tag. I could see a lot of other meta relating to what I had set up in Rank Math SEO. I went back to the SEO settings and set Enable meta keywords on Homepage. I did notice that the attached pop up description said the following?

“By default the theme does not add keywords to your header. Most search engines don’t use keywords to rank your site anymore, but some people define them anyway just in case. If you want to add meta keywords to your header then enable this option and fill in the custom keywords field below.”

Is this whole keyword/phrase thing a waste of time then?

Any way I pressed ahead and checked again and now could see that I now had a meta tag for keywords but it was empty so in the Homepage meta keywords field I entered the same ones I had entered through Rank Math.Now I could see these in the keywords meta tag.

You can check on my site: https://www.vaughanprint.com/

Continuing on the Single Post Page SEO I Enable custom keywords.

https://ibb.co/mq31Fxf

Initially I saw in the Custom field Name to be used for keywords the slug seo_keywords and presumed that it would do the trick but nothing, not even the keywords meta tag?

So I removed the seo_keywords slug and this time I could see the following. <meta name=”keywords” content=”Array”>

You can reference this page on my site: https://www.vaughanprint.com/view-buy-stephen-vaughan-prints-galleries/

Clicking on the attached tool tip for Enable custom keywords I see the following:

“If you would like to add meta keywords to your post you can do so using custom fields. This option must be enabled for keywords to be displayed on post pages. You can add your meta keywords using custom fields based off the custom field name you define below.”

So I need some sort of slug from Rank Math, if such a thing exists.

I got onto Divi about this and their answer on the content=”Array” was.

“You’re getting the tag content=”Array” because there is no content and there is nothing to display, although this should not do any harm on your SEO score of your website!”

Not convinced by this I questioned wether my SEO efforts were a waste of time considering that there was content on my about page and I had entered keywords through Rank Math. The next reply from another Elegant Themes support person was interesting. They posted a screenshot showing all the Rank Math goodness in the <head> tag but without any keyword meta tag and said:

“Also, you can tell if the SEO is working when the site has increases traffic or in conversions.”

Not too sure that I am happy with that.

Is there some Rank Math slug I should enter into the Custom field Name to be used for keywords field?

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Michael Davis
3 years, 8 months ago

Rank Math pro
Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

If I understood you correctly I assume you wish to show the keywords added into rank math in the keywords meta.

You can disable the option to add meta keywords through divi and add the following filter to the functions.php file:
```
/**
 * Add <meta name="keywords" content="focus keywords">.
 */
add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/show_keywords', '__return_true');
```
Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
Stephen Vaughan
3 years, 8 months ago

Rank Math free

Thanks Micael,

That worked a treat and now I can see my keywords meta tag. I will apply this to the sites where I am using Rank Math SEO.

Instead of adding it to the functions.php file in my child theme I added it to a plugin I made for functions that are not specifically tied to the theme. I checked as well, if I temporarily disable Rank Math, for troubleshooting purposes, the function has no adverse effects on the site, which is good to know.

Last question, up until now, without the function, have I been missing out on the benefit of the all the keyword entries?

Alberto
3 years, 8 months ago

Rank Math business

Hello,

No, since Google does not honor Meta Keywords for quite a long now so we never added them to the plugin.

You can read more about that here:
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.

Stephen Vaughan
3 years, 8 months ago

Rank Math free

Thanks Alberto,

You are absolutely right and I was completely wrong on this. Due to the fog of time I had completely forgotten that the keyword meta tag was unnecessary. Seeing the setting in Divi just confused me and I was conflating the need to use keywords with the need for the keyword meta tag.

Michael Davis
3 years, 8 months ago

Rank Math pro

Hello,

We are glad the info was helpful.

Is your issue now resolved?

If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.

RankBot
3 years, 8 months ago

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.

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