Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention.
Please note that ranking on Google does not only depend on your Table of Contents. It depends on so much more than just your on-page optimization. You could have the perfect article and still struggle to break the top 10 in SERPs. Here are some of the factors Google considers when ranking you:
1. Your website’s authority
2. Your content’s quality and how better it is than the other article currently ranking.
3. How competitive the keyword is.
4. How many backlinks you have and if they are better than what the other guys ranking for that keyword have.
5. Your website’s crawlability.
6. Frequency of new content and content updates.
7. So much more that there is a dedicated blog post on it by Brian Dean:
https://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factors
I would recommend that you keep at it and work on acquiring more links to break into the top SERPs.
I hope that helps. Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime if you need further assistance with anything else.
I appreciate the support and recommendations. But I would appreciate an answer to my question.
Thanks
Bill
Hello,
Table of Contents Plus plugin will not be detected by Rank Math by default, you have to tell Rank Math to detect this plugin since it is not automatically detected by adding the following code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file:
add_filter( 'rank_math/researches/toc_plugins', function( $toc_plugins ) {
$toc_plugins['table-of-contents-plus/toc.php'] = 'Table of Contents Plus';
return $toc_plugins;
});
I hope this helps. Looking forward to helping you.
Hello,
We are glad we have addressed your concerns.
If you have any other concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime by creating a new ticket to assist you further with anything else.
Thank you.
