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Rank Math SEO — A FREE powerful and lightweight SEO plugin for WordPress
😻Rank Math is a FREE WordPress SEO plugin to help you supercharge your website
📈Google Search Console Integration
✅Built-in SEO & Content Audit
⚠️404 Error & Redirection Manager
⭐Native support for Rich Snippets
🎁and much more...
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Krishna De
@bhanuahluwalia Your plugin looks amazing. However as I am not an authority on website development and SEO I am a little nervous about making the change to you from Yoast.
I see you have the option to import across settings from Yoast, but I wondered if it was possible to use both plugins at the same time specifically to be able to use Schema and social preview urls?
The reason I ask is that I attend an ongoing blogging workshop for things like site optimisation and I think it is highly unlikely that the person that leads that programme will move from Y to RM in the short term - I will be telling them about you however.
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@krishnade Hi Krishna, we'd really appreciate it if you do share Rank Math with them. Unfortunately it would be difficult for us to recommend to use two plugins for the same purpose at the same time as it could produce unexpected results. I hope you decide to make the jump to Rank Math soon! :)
@krishnade Krishna Also, TBH, those social previews are just the cosmetic touches and helps understand how a post would look on the social media sites.
The real difference lies within. I would request you to please run through this page:
https://rankmath.com/yoast-alter...
It will give you a better idea and clarity on why one should be choosing the Rank Math plugin.
@bhanuahluwalia Thanks - I have mentioned it to them and they tell me it is on their list of things to test and "Still a little too new to recommend. Letting them work the rest of the bugs out right now."
So it does not look like they will be recommending it in their classes or in their articles or to their clients any time soon.
And yes I have looked at the comparison before I commented here - but I am sure you can appreciate that for some of us who are not technical in terms of coding and correcting things that we need the SEO experts in our networks to be able to embrace what many will see as a big change sothat we can follow their lead in the workshops that they teach!
Let's hope some of the big influencers in search and key SEO industry websites pick up your launch and put your plugin to the test which then will help influence other SEO experts!
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
@krishnade Definitely. I can understand your concern.
I sincerely appreciate that you even considered us. Please remember that whenever you guys want to make a move, we're just an email away and would be more than happy to assist in making the move and helping you guys.
Have a great weekend and happy Women's day ♡
Looks good.
I've been looking for an alternative to Yoast for some time but never found one that I was really confident about. The thing I hate about Yoast is that it's sometimes too clunky and individual fine settings aren't available. The wizard is supposed to make things easy but it doesn't give you access to fine settings. While that is OK, as an advanced SEO user, it is frustrating. To top that, they had those recent blunders that make me wary of using such a product. I've tried Ultimate SEO and All in SEO as well, which are good. But over the years, they've undergone ownership changes and that shows in the product.
This looks like a product developed by someone/a team passionate about SEO and glad that you addressed the speed part, head on. Speed is one of the biggest factors affecting WP sites these days and I'm a sucker for anything that can save me another second.
Loved the way features are laid out. I hope it works great. (yet to test).
- Why isn't there an About us page on your site? I was trying to see who's behind this and couldn't find anything (of course, I can see it here, but still). Yoast, had Joost De Valk behind it and he added credibility to the product. (Even though the team broke our hearts with those recent hiccups). I'm super wary of who I'm giving access to my website through plugins, so it'd be helpful if you could add more transparency there. (I searched you on Twitter but couldn't find anything)
- What is the price?
I couldn't find any mention of the price on the website, although it was mentioned "Free" and at some place, hinted that "right now all features are free". Do you intend to put a price later? Is there any cost now? Does the free version have any limitations?
- Can you add the option to add GA code too through this plugin, cos there's already another plugin I have to add to enable it. And since you have GS console integrated, it probably would make sense to shed additional weight from other SEO related plugins and roll it all into one. (not sure if this feature is currently available)
Thanks and looking forward to using it.
@manikarthik Hi Mani, thanks for the kind words. We've worked very hard to get Rank Math to where it is now and aren't stopping anytime soon! I can't wait for you to try it out and start using it on all of your websites 😎
For the About Us page, the new website was laid out quite recently and we will soon be putting up an About Us page in the coming weeks. Thank you for reminding that.
I'm not active on Twitter or any social media website for that matter. I do have the accounts but I don't use them. Sorry if that is an inconvenience.
Though, I can always be reached directly via my email address, bhanu.a@rankmath.com
We do not have any premium plan for the plugin. All the features inside the plugin are completely free and we will not be charging for them ever.
We might introduce a premium version of the plugin down the line but that will not limit or strip any feature we are offering for free in the plugin.
Will definitely see how we can incorporate the Google Analytics in the plugin. We are adding only those features in the plugin which we battle-tested and working really fast. Do not want to end up doing everything but achieving perfection in nothing. I hope you understand.
I personally prefer Analytify for anything related to Google Analytics.
Please let me know if you have any further questions. I'll be more than happy to assist.
@manikarthik Updated my comment above. Sorry for not replying to everything in my previous reply.
Finally we have some good competitor to Yoast. They did so many blunders recently.
Will try on few sites and update back here.
@evivz Thank you for trying the plugin and we look forward to hearing back from you. I'm hopeful you will like the plugin a lot, like we do when using it on our websites.
Hi Ajay (@parttimesnob ),
Thanks for your interest in Rank Math - I really urge you to check it out. It firstly isn’t unheard of for other top SEO plugins to have some serious performance issues but there are a ton of things on top of that.
One of the main ones being the types of markup that Rank Math supports but Yoast simply doesn’t. Yoast’s only implementation of proper schema markup has been for a ‘how-to’ block which is often referred to as an ‘FAQ’ element. On the other hand, Rank Math has everything from reviews, recipes, articles, books, courses, events, music and more. Also, the on-page tests we do actually make sense compared to what other plugins run. I could go on for quite a while but that would make this answer longer than it already is 😅
The reason this matter is because the overall theme with SEO last & this year, specific to Google, was probably around how much emphasis Google has put towards structured data and schema.
We have a detailed comparison between the two which you can check here:
https://rankmath.com/yoast-alter...
Please let me know if you have any further questions and I will be more than happy to assist. 🙏
P.S. I love GMass BTW and the way you personally take care of every customer. I remember you replying yourself when I once faced an issue, that was heroic. 😍
Hey fellow Product Hunters! 👋
Firstly, thanks @kensavage for hunting our plugin.
My name is Bhanu Ahluwalia - I'm one of the founders of the Rank Math SEO 📈 plugin for WordPress. We've been building Rank Math for almost 4 years now and it originally launched as a private beta just a few months ago. We've gotten tons of feedback, and over 20,000 installs since, and think we're finally ready to introduce Rank Math to the world.
At its core, Rank Math is an SEO plugin for WordPress but it's actually much more than that. It does everything you'd expect from a fully-fledged search engine optimization plugin and more. We created Rank Math with the intention of designing it to be a fully-functional SEO suite that lives right inside your WordPress dashboard.
THE PROBLEM ❓
Existing search engine optimization plugins for WordPress are either bloated, lack essential features or cost a lot of money. After dealing with this problem ourselves for years, we decided it was time for someone to step in and pick up from where the others dropped the ball.
THE SOLUTION ✅
We built Rank Math. A WordPress Search Engine Optimization plugin that has everything you need to optimize your website - with new features released on a fast development timeline and support that you can actually rely on.
Rank Math already goes above and beyond other top rated SEO plugins - most of which cost money, are loaded with annoying upsells and bloated code.
THE ROADMAP 🎯
We have been and continue to work day and night to perfect and improve Rank Math so you'll be pleased to hear we have some exciting new features lined up that will be rolling out in the months and weeks to come.
WE NEED YOU 🙏
I can't wait to hear what you have to say about Rank Math. Learn more on our website and install the plugin (which we actually use on our own website) on all of your websites today.
Let us know if you have any feedback or questions in the comments - we'll be joining the conversation! ❤️
@kensavage @bhanuahluwalia I absolutely love Rank Math! Thank you for creating Rank Math, I can't wait for everything that's planned 💪🏼
@alexjpanagis Thank you so much for appreciating the hard work we have put in the plugin. Definitely, we are working on making our Roadmap public in the coming weeks so everyone's informed of the upcoming features and the plans.
@kensavage @bhanuahluwalia Rank math is a great plugin not only rich in SEO but many other features that a website wants.
@bhanuahluwalia - congrats. this plugin looks great and i will give it a go. just wondering how you plan on making money on this plugin.
@kensavage @bhanuahluwalia RankMath is a complete package. Love every bit of it. Appreciate the awesome support team as well.
One of the best plugin to compete with Yoast.
Pros:- Easy to Use UI/UX - Webmaster integration - Rich Snippet - Schema Support Inbuilt - Free
Cons:Nothing much for Now will update post long use.
Hi @evivz
Thank you for using the plugin and for leaving your feedback.
We are trying to become the most useful SEO plugin, WordPress has ever seen. We always had to code separate plugins in the past for our web properties to keep up with the constant Google changes and needs, and that's why we built Rank Math.
I hope you will like it as much as we love it when improving it every day. 🙏
Not a big fan of Yoast. I was looking for alternatives. This one looks perfect. When will be it available on WP store?
@gijo_varghese It is available on the WordPress plugin repository here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/se...
It all looks very good, I am scared it will mess up all my super setups! Should I install it? I have a few pretty complex sites...
Compatibility issues?
Messing Up With Custom Code?
@marco_diversi Hey Marco, Rank Math is running on over 20,000 websites at the moment (and growing fast). We're confident it'll run smoothly on your website and in the small chance that it doesn't, our dedicated support team is at your disposal 24/7 :)
@bhanuahluwalia will it have conflicts with Yoast SEO? It looks like is going to mess up all the settings on it! should you deactivate yoast to use this?
@bhanuahluwalia @marco_diversi hi Marcos, don’t worry about that, RankMath comes with an importer that lets you grab all your Yoast Settings and keep them when moving to RankMath. I used yoast on all my sites for years, every single one of them has been moved (without any issue) to RankMath.
@marco_diversi Hi Marco, as @matqv Mat suggested, we have a nice importer in the plugin which we have tested on a website which had over 200k posts on it.
You can test the live interactive demo on this page:
https://rankmath.com/yoast-alter...
Hope that helps.
and thank you @matqv Mat for jumping in to help. Appreciate it ♡
Rank Math has all the standard features and packs some new features as mentioned above. Which makes it powerful and the support is very good. On top of all of this its free and the product owner confirmed that the current features will remain free for life. No brainer really. I've reviewed the Plugin extensively in my blog: https://www.suganthan.no/blog/ra...
Pros:Lightweight, unique features (Schema, AMP, 404+Redirection monitor, Role manager, Deep Google search console integration)
Cons:Limited documentation, SEO Analysis is a little over engineered.
Thank you so much @suganthanmn for leaving your valuable feedback. Sure, we will work on improving the documentation and the analysis in the coming weeks. 🙏
Great SEO plugin! :) Kudos @bhanuahluwalia and the team to for building this. It's an amazing plugin, fully featured and extremely useful.
Quick question - does your sitemap engine includes .pdfs and href langs into it?
On the websites where I installed the plugin I dont have those... and couldn't confirm. But I'd bet they would be great features for all SEO peeps and website owners around.
@nikola_kozuljevic Hi Nikola - glad to hear that you like the plugin!
No, we do not include PDFs and href tags.
PDFs and other files are not included since those are attachments to posts/pages, and are not a separate post/page/custom post type. But, if the page which has files like a PDF, for example, they are indexable so Google will crawl and index them.
Href lang tags are added to the posts and thus not needed in the Sitemaps. We show the default URL and Google or other search engines can get translated URLs from the original post checking the Href lang tags.
Hope that helps!
@bhanuahluwalia Hey Bhanu, yup helped a lot.
So maybe there's a feature for expansion - to allow user to identify which .pdfs to include into the sitemap? Not sure how you build sitemap now, but it seems through db. Adding another reference for custom content to db and then to sitemap may come in handy. (If that makes any sense from your perspective).
Great plugin nevertheless! Kudos again.
@nikola_kozuljevic Hi Nikola, of course - this is something that will be taken into consideration. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment, we're always looking to make Rank Math even more 💪 ...
I use this tool for different sites incl. WooCommerce. I was never this fast to set up the complete SEO stuff as with this powerful tool.
Pros:Great tool, easy to handle!
Cons:A bit better documentation
Hi Michael, thanks for recommending Rank Math on PH! You'll be so glad to hear that we're already working on expanding and improving our documentation 🚀
One of the best SEO plugin with useful features! Loving your marketing strategy, giving Yoast great competition.
More features for free, without the distractions and annoyances of some of the other choices. Mostly though, the features are great, the UI is great, and it's just a refreshing change from others I've used in the past.
Pros:Clear and understandable onboarding and setup process
Cons:I think Rank Math is the better alternative
Hi @donnacavalier
Glad you liked the plugin and the interface. We have tried our best to keep the plugin as clean as possible and your appreciation means a lot to us. 🙏
I have been using it for 9-10 months now and tbh, I feel this falls somewhere between Yoast & Yoast Premium. Great work indeed
I ran a simple online SEO checker and it came back with a warning. The tools Rank Math SEO uses are all going to get you ranked down in Google for attempting to game. Most of these reviews and comments sound so fake too...
Pros:None
Cons:This WILL backfire!
Hey Bernard, we're sad to hear that you feel this way about Rank Math. Feel free to let me know if you have any specific concerns and share what you've found with us. None of the reviews you'll find here are fake - people just really love Rank Math!! Let us know if you have any other questions...
RankMath changed the way I do SEO Math
Pros:Great UI Responsive support Great Community FREE :P
Cons:Nothing
Hey Arnab @arnab_mohapatra That's a nice way to put it. I really liked it!
and than you for sharing your feedback by leaving a review with everyone else. 🙏
Glad this product got here on ProductHunt.
I have been using this plugin on several of my websites and it’s literally Yoast Killer.
The team has been dedicated in improving it even further. And this definitely will be one of the best plugins for WordPress in terms a complete all in one seo suite in a single plugin.
P.S. I ditched Yoast SEO Premium, It’s local seo and video seo and woocommerce plugin. And adopted to this!
@aby hey bro! Thank you so much for leaving your valuable feedback. It means a lot to us 🙏
Would one need to remove Yoast sitemap from Google webmaster and re-submit the new one? Also, does it replace the redirection plugins and migrate the previously redirected links as well?
Pros:A lightweight and single solution to boost SEO and both internal/external linking.
Cons:Sitemap strategy is not clear.
Hi Meenakshi - thanks for your kind words! We are in the process of working on improving our documentation (and introducing a blog) so that we can start covering all these frequently asked questions to clear up any general SEO questions people have. 🖖
Great Product and more features in the pipeline for 2019 - happy so far.
Pros:- Lightweight compared to Yoast SEO plugin - Free - Easy to setup - Offers a redirection module
Cons:- News Sitemaps - Sitemaps default to just 200 pages (easy to change) - Noindexing Tags and Categories is both or none.
Hi Chris @chrisldyson
Thank you so much for sharing your feedback. Means a lot.
News Sitemap is in our roadmap and will be introduced in the coming months.
We defaulted the number of posts to 200 in each sitemap because of the shared servers; they could run out of memory if a bigger number is entered by default, like 2,000 or more.
Sorry for the confusion between the tags & categories indexing options. They are completely separate and can be accessed by following this URL:
/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rank-math-options-titles
http://i.mythemeshop.com/1jQVDR
Thank you again for all your help by sharing your invaluable feedback. 🙏
I am using this plugin for 10 months. Really superb. This plugin did simplify SEO work in my blogs. It doesn't show any effect on my blog loading time. Thank you developers
Pros:Simple and easy to configure Unique features
Cons:Advanced solutions in Site Analysis
Thank you so much @satish_ithamsetty Satish for sharing your experience with the PH community. Appreciate it. 🙏
