My score goes down instead of going higher

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  • Resolved Anonymous
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    I have a free edition of Rank Math and was thinking of buying it because of the more complete Schema, but the first few pages I optimized went wrong and had glitches.

    On one page, I started with a score of 66/100. It was telling me that my KW was in at the beginning (10%), and it gave me the green light for H2 and H3 with Kw, although it told me that I didn’t have enough Kw.

    I started to optimize by following the suggestions. Now the report tells me that I have no Kw in my content or in H2 and H3, and my score went down to 55/100. It gave me more errors once I optimized it.

    Am I doing something wrong, or is there a glitch in your plugin? I need help to optimize my website and was counting on Rank Math to help me. I used to use the Yoast plugin.

    Carole

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  • 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.

    Could you please share the affected URL (if already published) so we can check? Also, are you using a page builder on your site? If so, please share the name of the builder as well.

    On the other hand, please confirm if the changes are getting saved once you update/publish as it could also affect the scores when the page is reloaded.

    Let us know how this goes.

    Thank you.

    Anonymous
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    Hi Reinelle,

    There are two URLs that were affected. Actually, the only two pages I have optimized with RankMath.

    https://drugaddiction.ca/canada-drug-rehab-center-help/bc-treatment-centers/ (65/100)
    https://drugaddiction.ca/canada-drug-rehab-center-help/ontario-drug-treatment-center/ (55/100)

    The first one I mentioned seems ok today. It detects the changes I made. The second one doesn’t. It still says that my kw is at 0.00, whereas I have 5 Kw in H2 and H3 and in the content.

    I use Elementor as a page builder, and yes, I save the changes.

    This is the analysis for the second page:
    Focus Keyword doesn’t appear at the beginning of your content.
    Focus Keyword doesn’t appear in the content.
    Focus Keyword not found in subheading(s) like H2, H3, H4, etc..
    Add an image with your Focus Keyword as alt text.
    Keyword Density is 0.00 which is low, the Focus Keyword and combination appears 0 times.
    URL is 85 characters long. Consider shortening it.
    No outbound links were found. Link out to external resources.
    We found 0 outbound links in your content and all of them are nofollow

    Thank you, and looking forward to your reply.
    Carole

    Hello,

    Could you please share the keyword you have used on the 2nd URL?

    Meanwhile, please note that Rank Math looks for the exact match of the focus keyword you have set and the ones you have used in your headings/content.

    Looking forward to helping you.

    Thank you.

    Anonymous
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    Of course. The kw is:
    “Affordable Private Rehabs in Ontario”

    Hello,

    We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.

    Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
    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/

    Looking forward to helping you.

    Thank you.

    Anonymous
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    I also noticed that the plugin didn’t generate a sitemap and google flagged it.

    Hello,

    We checked your sitemap and we can see that it is working properly except wpbdp_listing-sitemap.xml which is returning 404.

    In this case, please follow the steps below and see if that works for you:

    1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
    https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

    2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

    3. If the above steps don’t seem to work, kindly apply the following filter to your site.

    add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');
    

    Here’s how you can add filter/hook to your WordPress site:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

    Once done, clear your website cache and resubmit the /sitemap_index.xml in the Search Console.

    Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.

    Thank you.

    Anonymous
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    Hello,

    I have sent you my login information so you can take a look at my settings, etc. I have not heard from you about the first issue I contacted you about.

    It seems that RankMath doesn’t see all the changes I make to the webpage I optimize. I don’t know if there is an incompatibility with other plugins or if my settings are wrong. Today I optimized a page, and it doesn’t see that I changed the alt tag to the image, nor does it see that on the two external links, I put one nofollow link and the other one is follow.

    Hello,

    Please share the website login information in the sensitive data section of this ticket so we can check and investigate the issue further.

    Sensitive Data Section

    It is completely secure, and only our support staff has access to that section.

    Also, please share the URL of the page you have optimized so we can check it as well.

    Looking forward to helping you.

    Thank you.

    Anonymous
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    Hello,

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

    Thank you.

    Hello,

    Since you are using Elementor, you should check the score and SEO tests inside Elementor’s editor as the complete content is rendered there and the analysis and SEO score you see inside is the accurate one:

    The page builders use shortcodes to add the content and they are rendered only in their editor or front end. When you check the default editor, not all the elements load there and that’s why you see a different score.

    Once you edit the page in Elementor and update it, the correct score will also be updated in the list view.

    Hope that helps. Let us know if you need any other assistance.

    Anonymous
    Rank Math free

    Thank you, that works, although it’s still telling me that all my external links are nofollow even though some are not. But that’s fine.
    Thank you for your help.

    Hello,

    We are super happy that this resolved your issue. 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.

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