SEO Score

#83469
  • Resolved Ronald Callender

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hello Support,

    I’m having difficulty with Rank Math SEO.

    In preparing a post for publication. Rank Math says I don’t have the Focus Keyword at the beginning. “Focus Keyword doesn’t appear at the beginning of your content.”

    But I have it in the first paragraph, second sentence.

    As a result, my SEO score is less than what it should be.

    I have the Focus Keyword in the piece six times not counting the title of the article, but only gotten credit for three occurrences. “Keyword Density is 0.37 which is low, the Focus Keyword and combination appears 3 times.”

    Why is this happening?

    I welcome you helping me fix these issues. Thanks.

    Can Rank Math help me with internal links, and is there an easy explanation for how to do it? Thanks.

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  • Alberto

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math business

    Hello,

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

    Could you share (in the Sensitive Data section) the affected URL and also the focus keyword you are using for?

    About the internal linking, the Internal linking suggestion tool will show the first 5 pillar post in that category. Moreover, you shouldn’t mark multiple posts as pillar posts as that beats the whole purpose of pillar posts. Every post in a category cannot be a pillar post.

    You have to mark any post that you want to build links to, as a Pillar Post in the SEO meta box:
    https://i.mythemeshop.com/IhzGQN

    After that, when writing a new post, it will show your Pillar post from the same category you are using for the current post.
    https://i.mythemeshop.com/6atIwG

    This is used to build internal links to your most important content – it is not to be used any other way.

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Ronald Callender

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hello,
    Thanks for your response and for informing me as to how to go about getting internal links.

    Here’s the URL for the post in question: https://propheticwriter.org/pastor-john-macarthur-knowingly-displeased-god/.

    My Focus Keyword phrase is “Pastor John”.

    This is not a Rank Math issue, but if if you know the answer, I welcome knowing.

    All the images are fine, except the “?” image. In the draft mode it’s 800 X 450, but once published, it’s very small. What could be causing the change? Thanks for any ideas.

    Michael Davis

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hello,

    Are you using any page builder on your site? If you are please let us know which one.

    If not, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
    Sensitive Data Section

    It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below 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 use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

    If you are using any image compression plugin, it might be the cause for the change in the image size. Please check and let us know.

    We really look forward to helping you.

    Ronald Callender

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hello,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?

    Thank you.

    Ronald Callender

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hello,

    I forgot to mention that I’m not using a page builder. It’s not a premium theme. Thanks.

    Uzair

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    We removed the content and pasted it again.

    That seems to have fixed the issue.

    We also copy/pasted the content to our test install and all the tests ran fine.

    It looks like you have some redundant span tags in your content and that is why Rank Math cannot detect some of the content wrapped in these useless span tags:

    Please use the correct text format so Rank Math can read this content.

    Ronald Callender

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hello,

    Much thanks for saving the day for me. I do appreciate it.

    How can I detect and remove “span tags”? Is there a plugin or must I do it manually? Thanks again for all your help.

    Uzair

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    If you copy/pasted this content from a Word document, that is how it got added.

    You can use the erase icon to remove the formatting:

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

    RankBot

    4 years, 2 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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