Hello, I’m sorry to hear about the issue you’re facing with the visibility of focus keywords in the HTML source code of your posts.
It seems that you have used a Rank Math filter to increase the focus keywords limit beyond the standard 5 keywords allowed in the free version. However, it’s important to note that the focus keywords are used internally by Rank Math to optimize your on-page SEO and are not communicated to Google or affect your external SEO efforts.
As for the visibility of focus keywords in the HTML source code, this is likely due to how Rank Math handles the display of focus keywords. Other websites may not be using Rank Math or may have different settings configured, which could explain why their focus keywords are not visible in the view source code.
To address this issue, I recommend reaching out to our support team by assigning this ticket to a human agent using the available buttons. Our team will be able to provide further assistance and guidance on how to handle the visibility of focus keywords in the HTML source code of your posts.
Thank you for bringing this concern to our attention, and we appreciate your understanding as we work to resolve this issue for you.
Sources:
Bulk Editing Options in the Rank Math SEO Plugin
Analyzing Your Site’s SEO with Rank Math’s SEO Analysis Tool
How to Add Keywords to WordPress » Rank Math
General Tab in Meta Box of Rank Math SEO Plugin
Hello,
Rank Math does not add the keywords in your page’s source code unless you have added the filter from our guide here:
https://rankmath.com/kb/keywords-meta-tag/
Could you please share the affected URL so we can check as well? You can add it in the sensitive data section
It is completely secure, and only our support staff has access to that section.
Looking forward to helping you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
Thank you for your patience and for explaining the issue.
The keywords appearing in the schema are included since the Article schema is applied to your post:
https://rankmath.com/kb/article-schema/#keywords
They are added in a Schema that will describe the content to the search engines so they can easily present your posts, leading to more relevant and informative search results for users.
However, if you want to remove or hide them, you can use this filter on your site:
add_filter( "rank_math/snippet/rich_snippet_article_entity", function( $entity ) {
unset($entity['keywords']);
return $entity;
});
Here’s a guide to adding the code to the website:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/
Hope that helps.
Thanks for the solution,
I have added the filter and keywords tag disappeard from view source.
Is it normal to appear the keywords tag appearing blog post’s view html source code? generally which is something hidden from view source code right. So most of the blogs they dont show their keywords in the view source code.
I have few questions below
1. Is it okay to hide the keywords meta tag in view source code?
2. Does it impact negatively my website in ranking?
3. Does the schema which I have chosen for my blog , like Article schema in this case not the right one?
4. Is it create any problem for my website when google index it for ranking?
Hello,
We are glad to hear that the provided filter resolved the issue for you. Let us address your questions:
Questions 1 & 2. It is okay to hide the keywords meta tag in the view source code. In modern SEO, search engines like Google don’t rely on meta keywords for ranking. The meta-keyword tag is not used by Google Search, and it has no effect on indexing and ranking at all. Google and other search engines focus on a wide range of factors, and meta keywords are not a major ranking signal.
Questions 3 & 4. Using Article schema is appropriate for blog posts. The keywords appearing in the Article schema help search engines better understand the content of your post. It doesn’t necessarily create a problem, but it’s good practice to have relevant schema data.
We hope this helps. Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns.
Thank you.
Thank you for answering my questions and solving my problem.
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.
