Hello,
Thanks for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Rank Math only looks for an exact match of focus keywords that’s why it won’t consider the transliteration of your focus keyword.
Please note that the SEO score and guidelines are just for your reference and you do not have to follow them religiously.
You can also refer to the following article for more info about focus keyword: https://rankmath.com/kb/what-is-a-focus-keyword/
Hope this helps. Let us know if you need any further assistance.
Hello, is there a way to hook into that comparison?
Most of us using a language with non-Latin alphabet use a plugin or a custom function to do the uri transliteration, it would be great if there was a way we could interject it.
I understand that it does not really matter in the end but also understand we deal with non-techie editors who would have a hard time understanding why the post score appears lower than it could be, since the keyword “is” there.
Hello,
Thanks for your reply.
As mentioned by my colleague, Rank Math looks for the exact match of the keywords, and the translated version of the keywords cannot be matched/identified.
However, if you wish, you may disable some of the tests that your editors might face issues with. Please refer to this tutorial guide for more details: https://rankmath.com/kb/disable-seo-content-tests/
You can add the snippets in the above tutorial in your theme’s functions.php file to disable the test.
Hope this helps and please feel free to reach out if you need any further assistance.
Thank you.
Thank you, that is a solution I hadn’t thought of.
The specific test is not covered on that KB page but I guess the key would be [‘keywordInUrl’]
Hello,
The filter code for Permalink test is:
add_filter( 'rank_math/researches/tests', function( $tests, $type ) {
unset(
$tests['keywordInPermalink'],
);
return $tests;
}, 10, 2 );
https://rankmath.com/kb/disable-seo-content-tests/#7-disable-the-keyword-in-permalink-test
I hope this helps. Looking forward to helping you.
Oops, it might be time for me to get glasses hehehe, thank you!
Hello,
We are glad we could address your concern. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
If you do 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.
