Hello,
Thank you for reaching out with your question about choosing the primary category for your gaming posts. Based on your description of having the main category “Games” and the subcategory “Action,” it is recommended to choose the main category “Games” as the primary category for your gaming posts.
By selecting the main category “Games” as the primary category, you can ensure that your posts are correctly organized and categorized within your website’s structure. This selection will also help with breadcrumbs, permalinks, and schema markup.
To set the primary category in Rank Math, you can follow these steps:
- Open the Post/Page/Product in your WordPress dashboard.
- Choose both the “Games” and “Action” categories from the list of available categories.
- Set the “Games” category as the primary category by selecting the Category radio button in the Classic Editor or choosing it from the drop-down list in the Block Editor.
If you have any further questions or need assistance, please feel free to ask. Thank you for using Rank Math!
Sources:
How to Choose a Primary Category » Rank Math
How to Optimize a Category Page » Rank Math
How to NoIndex All Posts in a Category » Rank Math
Bulk Editing Options in the Rank Math SEO Plugin
I’m not convinced by Rankbot’s suggestion. I had tried it previously, but the Action subcategory does not appear in the breadcrumbs, but only the Games category.
Hello,
Thank you for your query and we are so sorry about the trouble this must have caused.
Please clear your website after you have chosen the preferred primary category and check the breadcrumbs again.
If the issue persists, please share the affected URL here so we can take a closer look.
Looking forward to helping you.
Maybe we didn’t understand each other: I think everything works well, but if I choose the Games category as primary, only the category appears in the breadcrumbs and not the subcategory.
So I was asking if:
– I select only the subcategory
– I select category, subcategory and choose the subcategory as the primary term.
For SEO, which is better?
https://imgur.com/a/aSxJEWv
Hello,
The second option is better. You should choose the subcategory as the Primary Category to include both the main and the subcategory in the breadcrumbs.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
My competitors use the category or subcategory in the URL. They often have /game/ or /actin/ and the name of the game. Instead I have the domain/gamename/.
One of the strongest opponents has strange paths: the initials P, T and C. I understand what they refer to, but it’s strange that I can’t get good results. On the contrary! Impressions have dropped to 0 for a month!
my problem is probably the structure of the site, but I’ve been confused for 4 years about how WordPress works in this regard. I’ve read guides, but I don’t understand anything.
Hello,
Unfortunately, we cannot give guidance on how to work with WordPress as that falls outside the scope of our support.
We can only assist with the Rank Math issues and small SEO directions but beyond that, our team cannot provide any insights.
We already mentioned before that you are in a very competitive niche and as such the SEO of your website needs to be absolutely on point to stand a chance of “battling” with the big websites in your niche. The structure of the website is part of that but that’s not the only thing. There are a lot of other on-page and off-page SEO optimizations that need to be done.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions about our plugin.
Thank you.
If only what you say were true: You don’t lose keywords down to 0 due to a change in Google or because there is a lot of competitiveness from competitors.
Hello,
Google’s algorithm updates can cause a huge drop in your site’s performance. Also, since your niche is very competitive, if you are not up to the mark to compete against the big players, it is normal to slowly lose all ranking keywords. You should improve your site’s overall SEO, including backlinks and domain authority. If you are not sure, we highly recommend hiring an SEO professional to audit your site and improve its performance.
To confirm if your site is affected by Google’s algorithm update and recover from it, you can follow this guide: https://rankmath.com/blog/google-algorithm-update-recovery/
Please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
I’ve removed Cloudflare. I not hve lost “slowly” keywords. I’ve another troubles.
Hello,
You seemed to have marked this ticket as resolved.
Do you still need our assistance with anything else or we can go ahead to close the ticket?
We really look forward to helping you.
Yes, I purposely marked it as closed, because I don’t think you can help me further. I have a probable conflict problem and it all started with the migration to the current hosting to have Cloudflare.
Previous hosting removed its services if I used Cloudflare. So it’s likely that I have conflicts with Cloudflare, since I still have the registrar from the previous hosting. Or, the new hosting has problems with Cloudflare. I contacted both hosting several times, but never resolved anything and wrote every day!
Since my SEO isn’t terrible, I’m convinced it’s a Cloudflare conflict, even though both hosts said they were compatible. Cloudflare is working, but there will be errors that do not appear to them and are fundamental for the SERP.
Why do I say my SEO isn’t terrible? I have many competitors, but I don’t consider most of them as strong as me. Not only that, but 9 times out of 10 Google removes pages and images because they are of low value. But it adds many pages and images but they are of low quality and have nothing to do with the game. Not only that, but it is impossible not to rank even when the results are few. I could understand: I did a bad job, I will always be last. But is not so! The pages were almost always removed!
Hello,
Thank you for sharing your insights. Since you’ve experienced discrepancies after migrating to your current hosting with Cloudflare, it’s wise to investigate further. We recommend reaching out to Cloudflare support for assistance in resolving any compatibility conflicts.
Regarding your SEO, it’s positive to hear that you believe your site holds strong potential. However, addressing technical issues like the Cloudflare conflict will likely enhance your overall performance. If you need further assistance or guidance, don’t hesitate to let us know.
Looking forward to helping you.
I left Cloudflare, because no one was able to help or they didn’t respond. not even hosting. After much anger, I removed Cloudflare 3 hours ago. If the results are much better than before, the problem was Cloudflare itself. Otherwise I will publish games with 0 Keyword difficulty, so as to have some traffic, backlinks and low competition for these keywords.
Hello,
That is fine. You can monitor this and see if there are changes.
Let us know if you have further questions for us.
We are here to help.
Thank you.
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.
