Hello,
Thank you for your query and we are so sorry about the trouble this must have caused.
You can follow this tutorial on how completely uninstall Rank Math from your website: https://rankmath.com/kb/uninstall/
As for your SEO perfomance/ranking issues, please note that ranking on Google depends on so much more than just your on-page optimization. You could have the perfect content and still struggle to break the top 10 in SERPs. Here are some of the factors Google considers when ranking you:
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 is.
4. How many backlinks you have and if they are better than what the other guys ranking for that keyword have.
5. Your website’s crawlability.
6. Frequency of new content and content updates.
You may refer to our article as well: https://rankmath.com/kb/does-installing-rank-math-guarantee-rankings/
Another thing to note is that Google brings a new algorithmic update several times a month and the chances are great that your website got hit by that. You may refer to our Google update page here: https://rankmath.com/kb/google-algorithm-updates/
We have a full guide on that: https://rankmath.com/blog/google-algorithm-update-recovery/
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Ok, thank you for all of this information, but this would be a real great coincidence. It all started with your software opening a second console log account for the same domain I already had one and establishing a second sitemap unasked!!! These are all actions to get penalized by google!!!
Besides what you describe in your document, are the any on page changes to pages made, that are not reversed by the uninstallation, or off page changes (e.g. the great idea of opening a 2nd search console account) or whatever?
Hello,
Our plugin will only create a Google Search Console property if you don’t have a URL prefix property for the correct variation of the website and only when you connect the website to your Google Account using our plugin.
That helps people make sure that the correct property is set up and that the sitemap is submitted automatically.
That has absolutely no impact on the SEO of the website as you can have as many properties as you want for a single website.
If you don’t want to use the one we created you can simply delete it and continue relying on the old one you had, after uninstalling the plugin.
Also, if you follow the steps in the tutorial we shared, all the data from the plugin will be removed from the website so you can switch to a solution that better suits your needs.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
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.
