Hello,
Thank you for contacting the support and sorry for not following up quickly and any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
We’ve checked your page on Google with the site: operator and we can see that Google is showing to correct meta description but indeed it has changed the meta title of your page. Please check the screenshot in the sensitive data section for your reference.
Nowadays, Google does that very commonly. Even when everything is fine, Google may choose to display a different meta title for your search query result. Google may skip the custom meta data you have set and instead display something from the pageās content that better matches the search intent.
You can follow this URL for details on this issue:
https://rankmath.com/kb/different-meta-title-and-description/
Hereās an article you can also check for reference:
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-changes-more-than-61-percent-of-title-tags/435618/
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
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Thank you.
Hi Rakibuzzaman Siam,
thank you for your reply.
1) I didn’t know about that, anyway I tried to follow some advice from your links and I noticed that in SCHEMA section in the description field, in all my pages there is some text that I never inserted. Maybe it has been automatically copied by Rank Math from snippet but it’s also old, not updated… so maybe Google read that one instead my update text written in snippet?
http://www.mywebservices.it/screenshot-schema.png
Now I’ve already delete that text in some pages leaving just the default %seo_description% that i think will show just the update one from snippet. But I’ve seen that all my pages have this text in Schema section so I’m asking you if there is an automatic way (maybe with a script?) to cancel all these texts just from description field in SCHEMA section because I have more than 200 pages and I cannot do it manually.
2) Another problem is about redirections:
all redirections work well but just for a specific folder seems that plugin doesn’t work and I don’t know why.
http://www.mywebservices.it/Screenshot_redirects.png
As you can see for folder “mangiareinliguria” redirect doens’t work showing a 404 page Not found. And in addition to that, Rank Math shows 404 instead redirect on home page as I set in general setting for 404 results… strange…
I insert my codes in sensitive data so you can check better, in redirection section you can see these links in the first place, order from above.
All the other redirections you can see that are working perfecly.
Please let me know,
Thank you!
Hello,
1. No, we don’t have any feature to automatically modify the description field in the schema. The default is always the %seo_description% that is taken from your SEO snippet.
To forcibly apply that on all your posts, you can make use of our filter to extend the schema. Please use this code:
add_filter( "rank_math/snippet/rich_snippet_article_entity", function ( $entity ) {
if ( isset( $entity['description'] ) ) {
$entity['description'] = RankMath\Helper::replace_vars("%seo_description%");
return $entity;
}
return $entity;
});
You may refer to this guide on how to add filters to your website: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/
2. The issue here is that URLs under /mangiareinliguria/ is throwing server 404 error instead of 404 coming from your theme, meaning, Rank Math is not able to reach that URL hence, the redirection is not working.
Looking forward to helping you with this one.
Hi Jeremy,
for 2) do you have any suggest to resolve this problem?
I just changed the nome of “mangiareinliguria” category in “mangiare-in-liguria” so I don’t know where come from this server problem. I need just a way to set a redirect to the new URL articles because in Google Search Console are all marked as Not found (404) pages. Please let me know if you can help me, thanx!
Hello,
Thank you for getting back to us.
We’re sorry to hear that you’re still having trouble with the redirections for the “/mangiareinliguria/” page. As we mentioned before, the problem is not with Rank Math but with your server configuration.
It seems that the URLs under this category are not recognized by WordPress, and instead, they are returning server 404 errors. This means that your server is blocking or interfering with the redirection process. This might be because the /mangiareinliguria/ category has the same name as your domain name, and your server thinks it’s a special or reserved folder.
To fix this, you can try to use your .htaccess file to manually redirect this category and its subdirectories. You can edit your .htaccess file from Rank Math > General Settings > Edit .htaccess. Here are two options you can try:
- If you want to redirect /mangiareinliguria and all its subdirectories to your homepage, you can use this code:
# To redirect /mangiareinliguria and all its subdirectories
Redirect 301 /mangiareinliguria https://www.mangiareinliguria.it
- If you want to redirect only /mangiareinliguria and not its subdirectories, you can use this code:
# To redirect /mangiareinliguria only and not any of its subdirectories
RedirectMatch 301 ^/mangiareinliguria$ https://www.mangiareinliguria.it
Please note that these codes are only examples, and you might need to adjust them according to your site structure and preferences.
If these codes don’t work for you, then you might need to contact your hosting provider or developers for further assistance. They might be able to help you with server-side redirection or other solutions.
We hope this helps you solve the issues. If you have any other questions or need more help, please let us know.
Thank you for choosing Rank Math!
Hi there,
We’re delighted to hear that this issue has been resolved. We appreciate your kind words and your support.
I’m closing this ticket now but if you ever have another question or need any help in the future, please don’t hesitate to create a new forum topic. We’ll be more than happy to assist you again.
Thank you for choosing Rank Math and have a wonderful day!
Cheers
