Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
The order of the configuration inside the robots meta attribute shouldn’t cause any issue as the search engine should still be able to read that no matter the order so there’s nothing to worry about.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Thank you, for myself my Daily hits have been drastically reduced since switching to Rank Math, via major search engines, hence my concern.
Is there any way to reverse this order ?
Hello,
We apologize for that.
There are a few things you have to keep in mind when using any SEO plugin, not just Rank Math.
1. An SEO plugin alone cannot bring down or bring up the traffic in a day (or even a few days) unless incorrect Meta Tags are used by setting up the plugin improperly. That’s why we have a detailed tutorial on that:
https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-setup/
2. All the SEO plugins add Meta tags for the search engines which can be checked by viewing the source of a page. For instance, here:
view-source:https://rankmath.com/
Other popular plugins generate similar tags:
https://i.rankmath.com/n94KyH
And with the Rank Math plugin, additional tags are added to a page so search engines can understand the content on a website better.
3. 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/
FINAL STATEMENT
– If your website is doing good on SERP, Rank Math is your best bet to improve the rankings further.
– If your website is not doing good on search engines, Rank Math is the best option to move into.
– We are pretty open in communication and how we are dealing with things. One can check here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/rankmathseopluginwordpress/
and
https://rankmath.com/support/
Hope that helps and let me know if you need my assistance with anything at all.
Thank you for the information and I do appreciate the complexities of SEO and some of the advantages of Rank Math introduce.
For myself, the robots meta attribute order is only used by Rank Math, all other SEO use Index, Follow ?
A problem is for myself to decide whether to stick with Rank Math as the order does seem not logical from a code perspective / Search Engine crawl ?
Alas my problem, not yours
will mark thread as resolved
Hello,
We are super happy that we could address your concern.
If you have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
