Varying word order in long-tail keywords

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  • Resolved Anonymous

    2 years, 2 months ago

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    I have been very happily using RankMath on my site for some time now.

    I am also using Divi, and RankMath is well-integrated which saves me having to Edit the post outside Divi just to see the SEO settings. That’s great.

    But now I am trying to optimize my posts for long-tail keywords and struggling because RankMath seems to require every mention of the keyword to be exactly the same, in the same order without any extra words.

    This makes optimizing a blog post challenging since I need to use the keyword phrase in ways that do not flow naturally in English.

    For example, I am writing a blog post now on relationship decision-making with tarot. I had thought to use a focus keyword like “relationship decisions tarot” which is a search someone might actually search on. But if I use “make relationship decisions with tarot” or “tarot for making relationship decisions” RankMath doesn’t seem to catch that as using the keyword at all in any part of the post.

    Trying to match exactly especially even a few times throughout the post makes the text very awkward.

    Even though I really want to use RankMath, I have tested other plugins. All-In-One SEO seems to work similarly to RankMath, but Yoast SEO seems to allow greater latitude with word order.

    I believe Google itself is also lenient with word order.

    Is there any way to set RankMath to be more lenient with word order?

    Thanks so much

    William

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  • Reinelle

    2 years, 2 months ago

    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.

    Our plugin checks for the exact match of the keyword/keyphrase that you use, but Google is smart enough to detect all the keywords and combinations used in your content and rank your page accordingly.

    Also, we don’t inject the keyword in your code as Google no longer uses the keywords meta tag.

    The focus keyword that you enter in the meta box is only used to analyze your content and provide you with suggestions to optimize your content.

    Please note that these tests are only there for your reference to help you in optimizing your pages/post content. If you feel any of them doesn’t apply to your page, please feel free to ignore them.

    Hope that helps.

    Thank you.

    Anonymous

    2 years, 2 months ago

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    Thank you, Reinelle.

    First a question, how much lenience does Google allow? Am I allowed to switch the order and put other words in between?

    E.g. “Decision making with tarot” to “You can use tarot to make decisions?”

    Either way, it would be awesome if Rankmath tested for this. I really try to tick all the boxes with your tests and it is frustrating to have to ignore some of them. Just saying.

    Thanks so much
    William

    Jeremy

    2 years, 2 months ago

    Hello,

    Yes, Google may treat those words as the same.

    However, in our plugin, the content needs to contain the exact focus keyword you have entered. Unlike Yoast or other SEO plugins which are forgiving when it comes to matching the keywords with more than 1 word or word with apostrophes in their tests, Rank Math needs to have an exact match.

    At the moment, we don’t have immediate plans on changing this behavior but if this is something we can change in the future, we will be sure to let you know.

    Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.

    RankBot

    2 years, 1 month 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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