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dashboard as you can see these are all
the functions that you have on the free
version of rank math and depending on
what you toggle on these features will
appear in the settings for example if
you click on the general settings
take note that these are the available
settings we have after going through the
setup wizard and if we go back to the
dashboard
and we maybe toggle this image seo
settings on let's go back to the general
settings
you will see this images tab here where
you can configure all the settings for
images before we toggle the image seo on
there wasn't an images tab now let's go
through each of these settings here for
analytics i will leave this towards the
end of the video let's start with the
Links Configuration
general settings and links strip
category base for newer sites if this is
not turned on i would recommend to just
leave it as it is this is an
irreversible action what it basically
means is by default if your article is
categorized under a certain category the
url will look like this you have your
domain name the category for which your
article is categorized and then your
article name if you toggle this on it
will remove this category in between now
if you turn this on and you suddenly
decide to turn it back off you are going
to have tons of 404s if you have
hundreds or thousands of articles so if
this is not turned on i'll leave it as
it is but if it's already turned on on
your site don't turn it off to my
knowledge it doesn't matter if you turn
it on or turn it off it has no impact on
seo whatsoever now a lot of these
options we have already touched based on
them in the setup wizard so we're gonna
leave them as it is
Breadcrumbs Configuration
as for the breadcrumbs it is essentially
a trail of page links that leads to the
page you are on for example something
like this you're on this page but these
are all the previous pages that will
lead to this page it is generally a good
seo practice to have it but a
complicated part is some teams already
have this functionality and if it's
already turned on then on rank math you
shouldn't turn it on to cause conflict
and some teams are not compatible with
breadcrumbs and turning this on it might
break the site so i will not be talking
about this if you really want to turn
this on then make sure that you save a
backup copy of your site before turning
Image SEO Configuration
this on next let's go to the image seo
we have just turned on i would recommend
turning this on you know sometimes when
we add an image to an article we forgot
to add an alt text here and what it does
is it tells google what your image is
about have you ever used google to
search for images having an alt text
allows you to rank for keywords in the
image search and it boosts general seo
as well so all images should have an alt
attribute if you forgot to add one rank
math will take care of it for you if you
toggle this on and as for the missing
title attribute i think this is kind of
redundant because nowadays when you add
an image to your site it comes with a
title next we have the webmaster tools
Webmaster Tools - Connecting Rank Math to Search Console
this is a useful tool for you to connect
your site to google search console and
rankmath has made it easy for us we
don't have to go through the dns method
or adding codes to your hit tag if you
don't know where to get this
verification code of your search console
just click on this
copy this entire code go back to rank
math and paste the entire code in and as
you save this
we are basically done now the only thing
is to go back to the webmaster central
and verify
and we are done it's that simple
you can go through the process for
others as well if you want faster
rankings of your article on these search
engines i'll leave it up to you to go
through the process now the robots.txt
Robots.txt
i'll recommend that you leave this as it
is generally this will tell google
crawlers whether they should or should
not cross certain parts of your site
messing with this might cause your
ranking so don't do it as for others we
Others - RSS
don't really need to add anything to
this i don't even know if anybody uses
rss anymore on their sites we have
social media channels like tik tok
pinterest facebook instagram to get our
daily feeds so it will be more effective
if you post your articles on those
channels rather than have them on your
site generally rss is just a medium for
you to notify your site visitors as
something new has been published on your
site it used to be very popular back in
the day but nowadays i don't see anybody
using rss anymore they usually go to
social media sites to get updates so
i'll rather you update your followers
through social media channels or email
marketing than rss feeds so we'll skip
this we'll talk about woocommerce in a
HTAccess
while now as for htss we will not make
any changes to this because if you mess
around with the codes it may break your
website so i will not do anything to
this let's go to 404 monitor again
404 Monitor Configuration
nothing much to adjust 404 monitor as
i've mentioned it will notify you when
you have pages that were previously
indexed on search engines but those
pages don't exist anymore so i'll not do
anything to this let's go to
Redirection Configuration - Selecting Redirection Type
redirections now redirection is usually
used when you delete a page or change
the permalink structure and for such
cases we'll leave it as 301 permanent
move now let me explain a little more
about these options for 302 i recommend
not to use it as it is vague if you need
a temporary redirect where you still
need the original url later on for
example if you are building a page that
is still under construction you will
want to use 307 instead of 302 when the
page is completed you will remove the
307. if ever your content is removed do
not use 410 just use 301 instead because
it is most recognizable and if ever you
are unlucky that your content needs to
be taken down by court order then you
will need to use 451 let's hope we never
use this so by default we'll keep it as
301 but if you visit the redirections
tab and you edit any link
you can amend the redirection type
so we are basically done with the
general settings now let's go to titles
Titles & Meta
and meta as for the global meta we want
Global Meta Configuration
the robot's meta to be indexed so all of
our content and stuff will be indexed by
search engines the advanced robots meta
we want to keep it as it is negative one
basically tells google that you can use
all the content on the article to be
used as a snippet or they can use all
the content in the video as a preview so
there are no restrictions however if you
in fact change this number you are
restricting google crawlers so generally
we want to leave this as negative one
this is done on the setup wizard and as
for the separator character this is by
preference just take a look at the
symbol here as i change the separators
you basically change the look of it on
search results personally i like this
and if you want to capitalize the first
character of all title tags you can do
so by toggling this on i choose to leave
it to give me more flexibility
and if you want to add a fallback image
to be displayed on facebook in case you
forgot to add a featured image you can
do so here and this is self-explanatory
Local SEO Configuration
alright let's go to local seo as you
know these are the information we have
done on the setup wizard but this is
especially important for local
businesses and there are more settings
here if you toggle this on
let's go back to the page and refresh
and you'll see there are a lot more
details you can add you can add your
email address your business address your
business type which was set in the setup
wizard you can add the opening hours
design on the time format
your phone number price range set your
about page contact page google maps if
you don't know the api key just click on
this link to get it and if you know the
coordinates of your business location
you can add it here so these are all the
information you can give to google so
that they can display something like
this on their search results in case
people are searching for your business
they will know the opening hours and how
to contact you these are important
information for your customers so please
don't neglect this for local businesses
but for my case this is a blog so i
won't be needing this let me toggle this
off
and let's hit
refresh and all those settings are gone
Social Meta Configuration
as for the social meta this is for you
to connect your facebook and twitter you
can add your facebook page url here for
my case this is the facebook page i'll
leave all this as it is but feel free to
go through the links to get the user id
the app id and the secret id all this
will give you a very nice facebook post
display instead of the ugly looking ones
like this
and then as for twitter you can add just
the username and that's it i don't have
a twitter account for this site so i'll
leave it as it is now let's go to the
Optimizing Home Page for SEO
home page
essentially it is telling you to go to
the settings and under reading they want
you to define your home page and if you
want to optimize this page for seo you
need to go to that particular page
for my case it is this home page let's
edit this
and you want to optimize this page for
seo so currently on the search result it
will look like this doesn't look really
nice let's edit snippets and over here i
don't really care if the title is
showing so let me remove this and let me
remove this as well
and as for this separator let me cut
this off and let me paste it here and
then let me add something like the
tagline
so something like this now it'll look
much better on search engine now this
site name you can basically find it on
the settings and general which is over
here
this code is actually drawing
information from this view so if i
change the site title
this will change as well just take note
of that and as for the description let
me type something in
so something like this
let's close this off and then as for the
focus keyword
let's just optimize for the brand name
you see over here it is recommending us
to add echo tarot in the meta
description so let's do that i've typed
in some text so i'll place it here this
is too long let us do something about
this
and done
let us close this off and we see a
little green tick here
as for this
let us do something like this
and we are basically done we are all
good let's update this
and we have basically optimized the home
page for seo now let's get back to the
rank map dashboard and under titles and
meta let's continue on with the authors
Author Archive Configuration
now if your site only has one author
which is yourself then you want to
disable this but if your site has more
than one writer you need to enable this
and to avoid duplicate content you
should put a note index on auto archives
which rank mav has already done so by
default
now we have gone through all this and
this is how it looks like on search
results for the author archive you can
leave it as it is or you can change it
to something like
articles written by the author name
which is symbolized by this and you can
change this to something like this
articles written by author name of the
site name and then we have the page
which is this and that's basically it
let's save changes and let's go to the
Misc Pages
miscellaneous pages this is where you
customize the date archives
the 404 page just like how you will
customize the author archives this is
how the 404 looks like it really depends
on how you would want to display your
photo for i'll leave all this as it is
but you definitely want to toggle this
on in case you have any paid content on
the site you don't want those pages to
be indexed on search engines you want to
keep them private and then we're going
to save changes
Post Types - Posts
now the post types i think the default
settings from rankmath is good enough
but if you want to further customize it
for example if you want to add a current
year so that if you go to google for
example you have this 2021 in the seo
title but if you take a look at this
this is written in 2019 so you can
basically display the current year in
the search results and the reason
bloggers do this is because it gives the
impression that this article is current
this is debatable i see some big sites
doing this if you want to do this as
well on a single post title you can add
for example open and close brackets and
within that
let's search for
current year
this is the code let's cut this and
paste this inside the bracket now the
title is too long so let me bring this
forward so you can see how it looks like
so it's something like this
but i want to put it right before the
separator now if you do this all your
posts will now have this current year on
the search results but if you don't want
to do that for all of your posts you
should remove this and you'll do the
manual customization here for example
this so let's continue i'll leave all
this as it is to give my articles more
flexibility if i want to change the seo
title and description i will go straight
to the specific post and page to edit
the snippet instead of doing them here
now this schema type is done on the
setup wizard and the rest are quite
standard i'm sure you know what this is
already and as for the custom fields
we'll talk more about this in the
woocommerce section because we'll be
switching to another site as a reference
now there are a lot of seo strategies to
tackle this you have probably hear a lot
of people talking about this and there
is really no right or wrong answer the
key is really to write the best content
have the best headline that attracts the
right audience and that's the general
rule of time for seo now as for the
Post Types - Pages
pages
it is going to be the same as well
typically i wouldn't add the year to
pages because usually they are static
Post Types - Attachments
and as for the attachments we have
basically set this in the seo wizard and
Post Types - Elements
for the elements i use elements as
design templates so i do not want this
to be indexed so that's basically the
settings i will need and for the
products they are basically the same all
these are quite standard and we have
discussed about customizing this now
Post Categories SEO Configuration
let's talk about categories i want to
make sure that categories are not
indexed because it might cause google to
view it as duplicate content so if you
do not have this turned on you want to
do so and you want to select no index
the same goes for text
i want to put a no index to text and
let's save changes and we are basically
done with the titles and meta now let us
Adding Sitemap to Google Search Console
add sitemaps sitemap is a guide for
google robots to navigate through your
site to easily find all the pages and
posts and rankmath has created the
sitemap for you and this is the link you
need to copy this and then you need to
go to google search console and you need
to go to sitemaps and paste in the link
you need to remove all this
and let's submit
and great it is successful search
console will tell you if the status is
successful and it will show you how many
pages of posts they have indexed and
there we go we are 95 done with the
optimization the rest of the five
percent comes from the customization of
your single post articles and all these
we have basically covered them earlier
WooCommerce & ACF Configuration
now let's talk about woocommerce and
this acf now we are on my other side
where i use it to do woocommerce
tutorials you see i've created a single
product template like this where all
this information are drawn from these
custom fields and these custom fields
basically came from a plugin called
advanced custom fields by delicious
brains and i've created this view group
where all these custom fields will be
displayed on products under the knife
category you'll see all these fields
right here in the single product page it
sounds complicated but it's actually
quite simple if you are curious how i
created this single product template you
can watch this video at the top right
corner i've left the link in the
description as well
so basically if you toggle this
woocommerce feature on what it does is
on the single product page as you scroll
all the way to the bottom you will see
this section where it says rank math seo
and this is where you optimize this
single product for search engines so for
example the focus keyword will be the
name of the knife and now we have a
score of 54. now here's the interesting
thing as you can see here content should
be 600 words to 2500 words which means
currently all this content that i've
written over here in the custom fields
are not taken into account and rank math
so what we need to do is to go back to
the rank map dashboard and over at this
acf feature we need to turn this on and
immediately after that if we go back to
the single product page and we refresh
now as we scroll down all the way to
where the rank math is
you will see now it has detected 74
words and these came from the custom
fields
and before we activated the acf feature
rankmap did not pick up any content
because the product description as well
as the product shop description are
basically left blank so that's all we
need to know about acf and woocommerce
in rankmath if you have activated the
Product Post Type Configuration
woocommerce feature you'll have this
product post time here or you can
customize the single product title
and as you know the more customized this
is the more restriction it's going to be
on your individual products so it's
really up to you whether you want to
spend time customizing this i feel that
time will be better spent if you
optimize for seo on the product page
itself rather than here but this is just
for you to know you have all these
options to customize for your product
post type and the other settings that
Product Categories & Tags Configuration
are available when you have activated
the woocommerce feature as this product
categories that work similar to the post
categories and tags you can make the
product categories no index and you can
do the same with product tags and that's
what you basically need to know and now
Connecting Rank Math to Google Analytics
there is one last thing we need to do
which is to connect your website to
google analytics now we are back on the
eco tarot website and i've opened up my
google analytics and now let us connect
through the usual way by clicking on
this button and let's select the google
analytics account
you want to check all these boxes and
let's continue
and now the thing is as you can see the
analytics is not sync if they are in
sync it will have a green dot here
instead of red so if we go to the
general settings and we select analytics
we can see over here under the account
we can select ecotaro and under the
property we have no other options it's
supposed to show
the property here so how do we solve
this this is a very common issue if you
don't set up the property that allows
universal data
so let's go to admin
and let's create a new property
let us give this property a name
as for me i live in singapore so i'll
rather have the data served to me in my
time zone currency i'll leave it as us
dollars and you need to open this
advanced options up and over here you
can see universal analytics property
let's toggle this on
now over here
you want to put in your website url and
make sure you select this as well as
checking this box
and let's click next
select an industry
for me i'll select home and garden and
the business size or select small but
you can select whatever that suits your
business and then i'll check whatever
that applies to my business
increase my conversion
measure content monetization this as
well as this now let's create the
property
and here we go we are done let's go back
to our site and let's refresh this
let us go back to analytics
now let's select an account and we have
the new property here let's select this
and let's select all website data
and let's save changes and once that's
done you can see this little dot has
turned green and that's what you need to
do to connect to google analytics all
you need is just the universal analytics
data if you have an existing property
create a new one it doesn't hurt now
overall ranked math is a very powerful
seo tool that will help your site
optimize for major search engines it
provides you with a ton of features that
no other seo plugins provide and the
best thing about this is that it is free
now ranked math has a pro version that
costs 59 per year and you can install it
on unlimited websites
and it offers you a lot more
functionalities
now if you decide to upgrade to the pro
version i hope you can use this link
i've left the link in the description as
well and full disclaimer i do make a
small commission if you use the link to
make a purchase and don't worry it will
not cost you anything more if you get
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