SEO not wanted on certain pages: and some issues

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.

1. Could you please share the link so we can check it as well? If you wanted to share screenshots, you can upload using this tool and add the link here.

2. Yes, you can ignore the tests from the Rank Math analyzer for those kinds of pages. Please stay advised that these tests are just guidelines, and one does not need to follow them religiously.

3. Are you referring to that test in the SEO Analyzer? If you have already added the focus keyword, head over to Rank Math > Status & Tools > Database Tools > and click the Clear SEO Analysis and Remove Transients buttons to flush the SEO Analysis cache

Once done, clear your website and any server-level caching on your site before doing the Sitewide analysis again.

Let us know how this goes.

Thank you.

Hello,

Thank you for getting back to us.

1. This test is calling to your attention the fact that some images on the pages do not have ALT tags, which are recommended for search engine optimization If you’re not interested in optimizing this page for search engines, you can just ignore this test and the scores that Rank Math gives you. They are only suggestions, not rules. As long as this page is in your sitemap, it should be crawled by search engines without any problem.

2. If the form you’re referring to here is a post type, then you can turn off SEO controls from Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Post Types > Forms > Add SEO Controls. But if the form you’re referring to is not a post type, then you can just ignore the SEO suggestions that Rank Math gives you for those pages.

3. This is what the Rank Math meta box looks like: https://i.rankmath.com/i/fFpsxP. The focus keyword is meant to go in the field marked ‘Focus Keyword’. If you don’t see the meta box on your editor, it might be because you’ve hidden it in your screen options. You can find out how to enable it here: https://rankmath.com/kb/why-rank-math-meta-box-is-not-showing/#why-meta-box-not-showing-classic-editor. Learn more about the meta box here and how to troubleshoot the meta box not showing here.

We hope this helps you understand the issue better. If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to ask us.

Thank you for choosing Rank Math as your SEO plugin.

Hello,

Thank you for getting back to us. We apologize for the confusion. We’d love to help you get these concerns resolved as soon as possible. To do that, we’ll need to take a look at your website and settings.

Please follow these steps:

• Edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress and FTP logins in the Sensitive Data section. This is a secure section that only our support staff can access.
  
• Make sure you take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
• If you prefer, you can use this 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 also use this plugin to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any): https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

We appreciate your cooperation and patience. Thank you for choosing Rank Math.

Hello,

We understand the situation about logging in to your live site.

However, disabling the plugin would not be much help in these cases.

1. For the Image ALT Attribute issues, those images indeed do not have the ALT in the source code. Please refer to this screencast on how to check them (notice the 3rd image where the ALT attribute is properly showing): https://i.rankmath.com/v/x7fUHY

If you have already added the ALT to your media gallery, then you can get in touch with your theme provider to help you add the ALT to the images on your homepage.

2. Please note that the SEO Analyzer includes all the posts and pages on your site that are set to index. So if those pages/forms are indexed, the Analyzer tool will treat them the same as your posts.

So, you can safely ignore the tests to them as you mentioned that they don’t hold much SEO value. That will also not affect your posts since they have their own.

3. It is difficult to check this without logging in to your site. However, you can click the words 5 Pages or 6 Pages or 1 Post in your screenshot, and it will display all the pages/posts that don’t have focus keywords.

Alternatively, you can create a staging site with the same issue so we can investigate the issue further by sharing its login.

Here is a guide that could be really useful for you on how to create a staging site: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-staging-environment-for-a-wordpress-site/

Let us know how this goes.

Thank you.

Hello,

1.) Sure, do let us know how that goes. Checking your homepage again, I can confirm the portrait photo has alt text in them except for the Paypal image. After addressing that, you can try to test it in the SEO Analyzer again.

2.) We are glad that we could address your concern here.

3.) Please note that the SEO title and the actual post title are different and to pass the test, you need to mention the focus keyword in the actual post title. See the screenshot below where you can see the focus keyword and the post title isn’t matching:

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