can you check my plugins and settings just upgraded

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that this issue might have caused.

We apologize for the late reply, this ticket was stuck in the draft section so it did not reflect on the queue for us to respond to it.

We checked the index status of the pages you reference using the site: operator and found that three of them are already indexed by Google.

Please note that only Google determines what to show in search result pages.

Likewise, ranking on Google depends on so much more than just your on-page optimization. You could search for your keyword or post title, or have the perfect article and still struggle to break the top 10 results when searching on Google, especially for highly competitive keywords.

Here are some of the factors Google considers when ranking your website.

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 you are using is.
4. How many backlinks you have and if they are better than what the other websites 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

Since we already confirmed that your site is indexed correctly on Google, we recommend that you keep at it and work on breaking into the top SERPs. Here are a few resources you will find useful while devising an SEO strategy.

1. Carry out Keyword Research: https://mythemeshop.com/blog/keyword-research/
2. Identify Keyword Intent: https://www.semrush.com/blog/how-to-identify-intent-in-search/
3. Write Awesome Content: https://neilpatel.com/blog/ingredients-of-great-content/
4. Carry out On-Page SEO: https://mythemeshop.com/blog/how-to-do-seo-optimizing-your-site-for-google/
5. Carry out Off-Page SEO: https://mythemeshop.com/blog/how-to-do-seo-off-page-optimization/
6. Build Backlinks: https://www.rankxl.com/outreach-link-building/

We hope this helps.

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

We’re deeply sorry for the delay.

Can you please share some affected post URLs here so we can check closely from our end?

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

We have fixed the issue with the News Sitemap settings on your site. It is working fine now, and you can select the categories and tags to exclude from the news sitemap. Your news sitemap is also working fine and has all the posts that were published in the last 2 days.

The posts you have shared are already indexed in the SERPs, and if you can’t find them for a specific keyword, it means Google is not ranking them for that. There are a lot of factors that affect the ranking as mentioned by colleague in his reply.

The settings of the plugin are correctly configured on the site. Please note that an SEO plugin only adds the meta tags to your site. Unless you have configured it incorrectly, there is no way it can prevent Google from indexing your site. We never prevent or put limitations on the indexing of the posts in the free version.

Indexing and ranking depends on a lot of factors. An SEO plugin can’t guarantee that your site will be indexed and ranked by Google. Your site should have quality content that Google considers helpful for the SERPs. You should also have a good backlink profile and domain authority to compete with the top-ranking sites in your niche. You should work on improving the overall SEO of the site, and our plugin will take care of the on-page SEO.

If you are still not satisfied with our plugin, feel it is limiting the ranking opportunity of your site, and want to switch over to Yoast, let us know and we will issue a refund.

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

When you search for a title, Google will still consider it as a keyword and rank all the related posts that might have a different title but have content on the same topic. You are trying to compete with the sites like Facebook, Google, Yahoo News, BBC, The Sun, etc. Your site should have a very high DA and a strong backlink profile to rank among them.

To confirm that the page is indexed and available in the SERPs, use What Are The New Alcohol Ban Rules in Ibiza and Majorca in2town.co.uk in Google Search, and your post will appear at the top:

Please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Hello,

We have refunded your order, as requested in your other ticket. Since you no longer have access to the PRO forum – we have also moved the two tickets to the FREE forum so you can continue to access them.

Regarding the News Sitemap, please note that the News Sitemap is a PRO feature – so you would no longer have access to it and we’ll also no longer be able to provide support for PRO features including News Sitemaps.

However, from your screenshot, we can see that you are adding the excluded categories in the wrong way. You’re not supposed to exclude the terms using the [] method you’re using. You can exclude terms by selecting the terms like this:

We hope this helps clarify the issue. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.