Is RankMath Better Than Yoast? - Rank Math SEO Plugin Setup (Optimal Settings)

[@darrelwilson]

Hey everyone! I Created an updated 2021 Version Here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJzSqWmHhbB-gsU

[@alfredoperez4195]

Darrel Wilson thank you Darrel. Your tutorials are amazing man. I was able to upgrade and build my website using your tutorials, and we’re constantly improving it. vacationfreedomgroup.com If you have time check it out.

[@FIghtShark]

Finally made this vid brotha. Keep up the awesome content!

[@DeRen179]

Cool plugin thanks for the video! P.S. you should not set to open links in new tab because it is considered a security issue.

[@UniversalDesignz]

Hi Darrel how would you compare it to SEOpress pro?

[@tangodigitalsystems]

I am already running rankmath on 3 websites.. thank you Darrel and nice haircut!

[@aaronh.7733]

I partnered with yoast. And have selled this Plugin to a lot of my clients. But I am seriously considering to switch. I will try it with my site and give y'all my experience. Thank you!

[@christiaantjahhh]

And? What do you think about it?

[@wptutorials6447]

@@christiaantjahhh gud

[@babsomotden]

How is it now?

[@wptutorials6447]

@@babsomotden ?

[@babsomotden]

@@wptutorials6447 i mean what was the result? Is it better than Yoast or they are just similar? Or what is your experience so far? Hope you got that?

[@biblebites6808]

I watched this video several days ago and didn't understand (I'm a new student for SEO). So after I watched a few other SEO videos, I came back to this video and I totally understood what you were saying. I do have Elementor and purchased Rank Math Pro. Now I understand how they got married and the pages are now ready to have baby posts! Thanks!

[@DieterVanWalle]

Hi Darrel, great tutorial ... I’ve decided to go for Rank Math and used your suggestions for the configuration ... it looks great so far

[@overwhelmedholly7645]

I made the switch from Yoast! Thanks for the walk through...huge help!!

[@darrelwilson]

good luck with your website! im making the switch too

[@rumighazali8984]

did you use export import in yoast to migrate? i just finished my yiast setup, but i just saw this at the same time

[@Naskeleng]

Thanks a lot for this, Darrel. I'll check it out over the next couple of days and come back with my experience. Huge 👍 for the heads up!

[@darrelwilson]

im making the switch too!

[@richardtocher]

Thanks for this video. I was adding rank math to my site. I saw this just in time! Good work!!

[@dannythegem09]

Excellent Videos Darrel...very clear and precise, as a novice you have given me a lot of confidence for my first web build....keep it up my friend...Thank You

[@hilarymutia]

I really love your tutorials bruh.. keep it up ~

[@darrelwilson]

thanks bruh

[@mondowp]

Super cool tutorial Darrel, thanks!

[@dxnreishi6331]

Thanks a lot Darrel. You solved my Issue. May God bless you.

[@RonyMattar]

Hey Darrel! Thank you for this video, I switched to RankMath and still testing it but I like it so far.

[@BoraBora_Sasha]

After 5 months how is an experience of it!

[@mjain671]

Kudos to you mann! Keep up the goodwork .love from India

[@pgutierrez89]

Hey Darrel, AWESOME review. 2 questions: 1. Are you using RankMath for your OWN website? 2. Is it worth to test RankMath vs Yoast in 2 websites to check SEO results? (similar to your hosting competitions). Thanks man!

[@darrelwilson]

i installed the plugin and am completely switching to rankmath tomorrow when i wake up. Its hard to compare the plugins, it would be so many different factors that de-rank you like competition etc

[@pgutierrez89]

@@darrelwilson Perfect! Please let us know the SEO results (organic traffic) in a few weeks using RankMath! Have a great day.

[@krisglinski1116]

@@pgutierrez89 As of 13th November 2019 Darrel is still using Yoast :)

[@SparticusIIX]

Thanks for this video. Just one thing, at 27:28 the Format Archive Descriptions has changed options on the dropdown menu. Can you tell us what you go with here?

[@mikahlactpo]

i was hoping to find out the same thing!

[@sukhvindersingh7123]

Thanks, dear, I was searching for a descriptive video fro rank math.

[@darrelwilson]

you are welcome mrotha!

[@JimKll]

RankMath is way better than YOAST SEO. I just switched today. Best decision ever!!!

[@jblaketv1357]

Hey Darrel, Thanks for the walk through.

[@dc_eksplo]

I am using SEOPress and I'd like to see your opinion about it. Maybe a comparaison tutorial :RankMath VS SEOPress 😊

[@mikejhonson524]

Rank Math is a powerful seo plugin than others

[@heiditlps4000]

Nice tutorial and in depth. Although the video is lengthy I found the information useful and not with a lot of built in "fluff" that some do to maximize the viewing time.

[@Integro19]

Thank you very much, just a great tutorial over here :)

[@darrelwilson]

Hey thanks again

[@andrewpiper7372]

Great Video Darryl! I couldn't help but notice you have a weird green glow? Did you grow up near a powerplant or do your greenscreen settings need tweeking?

[@kieranproven4874]

Darrel, my man 🙌 Awesome info.

[@rafi_45]

Thank you sir for the tutorial. Help me understand RM better.

[@wildanshohwah]

Hi Darrel, thanks a lot for all of your great stuff. I have a question. I'm Indonesian and should I change price range with my country's currency? So it will be Rp instead of $

[@zishansadath281]

Big thanks for the tutorial Darrel..!! 🤗Very helpful, for a fact the owners of the plug-in are trying to get the customer base... element of surprise will come in a few months about it's pro version😁.

[@eddier.6749]

Great tutorial as always, thank you. I have a question. When you deal with a lot of customers, how do you do the google authentication stuff and google console, etc. Because you either have to get into their google account, or having them do it on which will take a lot of time (most clients are not tech savvy). What do you suggest?

[@thedailyscrumnews]

Thank you for making this video. It really helped.

[@perezlazo]

Excellent explanation from Rank Math SEO, was perfect for me. Thanks you...a lot

[@darrelwilson]

Glad it helped!

[@rayjh6938]

Nice tutorial, thanks for your time and effort in bringing this to our attention and keeping us updated with what's going on etc. Always informative and we'll explained. Good job ! A little concerning that reading the other comments about Google rejecting this plug in ????

[@darrelwilson]

it did at once point, but rankmath cleared it up with google

[@rayjh6938]

@@darrelwilson thanks Darrel, will download and explore it.

[@francocagnazzo6134]

Hi Darrel at minute 36:45 I got lost. I have : product category product tag product color product size product brand Do they all have to be no index to avoid duplicate content? Congratulations for your job

[@GeorginaGrogan_]

Extremely helpful - thanks!

[@darrelwilson]

Thanks again

[@no1location]

Thank you for the great contend Darrel

[@darrelwilson]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@ankur_lad]

22:20 Custom redirection: " Haha! You Stuck here and You Are Loser!!" LOL

[@pry-5-phos733]

Thank you man! Very helpful

[@youtubersampingan]

already switch from 5 months ago, best seo plug in in my opinion

[@RahulSharma-vm1fz]

Darrel, thank you so much for this video as always such great help from The Guru. Can I ask can this plugin be used with the Divi builder? As Divi do recommend to use Yoast. Does anyone else have advice on this question? Many Thanks, Regards, Rahul.

[@alyssadugas221]

Hi! Just to clarify at 30:00...you say to leave “Noindex paginated pages” and “Noindex archive subpages” to off...but it says “set this to ON to prevent page 2 and further to show up in the search results.” If you leave these “off” that means they will be indexed? It looks like you’re turning Noindex off, but shouldn’t you want noindex on?

[@asyadanbihaber1309]

i was also thinking same question!

[@Fibonacci108]

Hey Darrel, you mentioned you were going to cover home page set up in this tutorial but unfortunately didn't. Any advice you can offer?

[@lutzdahmen1442]

Rank Math has a Dashboard demo over here demo.rankmath.com/wp-admin/ Click posts or Pages, Click edit on a post or page Click the orange button up in the right corner and all the settings for the page or post youré on will display To edit the url click the heading text and editing possibility will disaplay.

[@angelagayehorn6362]

I was about to ask the same thing. :)

[@nurudeentijani4855]

thanks for the tutorial :)

[@SandpointTv]

awesome video! was wondering if i should use the article settings instead of video settings. my site is primarily videos hosted on wordpress- not youtube.....thoughts?

[@SeanJamesBakes]

Awesome video! Would you recommend removing monsterinsights? Also for the Woocommerce categories Ive used Elementor to add descriptions will it be ok to leave no-index off for this page or am i risking duplicate content? Thanks again

[@FactorChill]

Hi Sean.. did you remove monsterinsights? I would also like to know seeing the RankMath includes Google analytics

[@sashasol_mtl]

So why are you still using Yoast on your blog, Darrel?

[@jasonbeard]

They do have plans for a Pro version as been mentioned in the groups. My problem with this is just like when plugin BOOKED removed features from the core that people where already using and made them extra paid optiions, remember you also mentioned that in one of yr vids about best booking plugins. I'm sticking with SEOPress Pro $39 for UNLIMITED SITES as it's probably the next best thing from Yoast!

[@darrelwilson]

no pro version yet, its coming tho rankmath.com/roadmap/

[@charleenewman6587]

Darrel this an awesome plugin. One thing I have All in One installed and setup, can I import my information into RankMath?

[@alexjpanagis]

Hey Charlee, you'll be pleased to hear that Rank Math actually already does have a one-click importer for All in One SEO Pack as well so it would be easy to migrate over :)

[@aralifehacks5922]

Hi Darrel you missed the setup of homepage

[@sounakchatterjee2694]

Nice Detailed video Darrel. Great Resource! I'm in confusion though between RankMath vs SEOPress Pro. Any Suggestions on that? I would appreciate your help.

[@darrelwilson]

ill have to make another video on this!

[@anthonyeze5816]

Great Video thanks man

[@enricomingiacchi202]

Very useful, thanks!

[@chicagomusicguide]

Thank you very much for putting together the best tutorial for a plugin I just discovered today. I have liked and subscribed to your channel not too. Thanks again Darrel!

[@darrelwilson]

thanks again!

[@Leonardo-ih9iy]

Hi Darrel, great video; I did the settup step by step of RankMath with this video. Please make a addtional video with optimization the website, means which errors and warnings in the RankMath-SEO Analysis section, should be fixed? Hint: please make a little pause after a topic is finished :-) Thanks a lot Leonardo

[@darrelwilson]

im going to be making an additional follow up soon!

[@hannanbaig7888]

@@darrelwilson Eagerly waiting for it

[@aj27jc]

Hi... I managed to do everything but I still can't find my site on google search

[@NickPowellPhotography]

Looks absolutely amazing!!!! Goodbye Yoast. 👍😊

[@JourneyLife]

How does it compare to All In One SEO? I never liked Yoast!

[@PigsDream]

Whenever I try to save a setting it brings up a blank page only saying: The link you followed has expired. Please try again.

[@kanikaguglani4487]

Hi Darrel, I have installed rank math by watching your video. Many of the features are wonderful and reduced our efforts too to jump into analytics etc. I just want to confirm that I was using Yoast previously and many other plugins for the optimization like a3 lazy load, auto-optimize, Compress JPEG & PNG images, Smush, Speed Booster Pack, WP 404 Auto Redirect to Similar Post, and Yoast SEO. Now do I need to remove all these plugins or will they work simultaneously? I hope to hear from you soon! Thanks!

[@no1location]

Hi, if plugin are no more in used, will affect your loading time. Anyway more plugins means, there might be longer loading time longer loading time

[@HullioGQ]

Thanks for this video, Darrel! How does this compare to SEOPress?

[@darrelwilson]

ill have to do another video on it

[@HullioGQ]

@@darrelwilson Thanks! That will be great.

[@asadshaikh7118]

You dint mention about the homepage settings that part i quite important and im having problem with that as my homepage is a static page. Nyc and informative video

[@paololopes4690]

Hello Mr Wilson, First I have to thank you for the amazing content you share on your videos, you are by far my number one go to for tutorials. In fact, the first website I created was thanks to you. Yes, now it needs a revamp, but that is another story. Anyway, the reason I am contacting you is because I am using "All in One Seo plugin" on my latest affiliate website, however, I have been hearing that RankMath is much better. My question is: Can I simply deactivate the "All in One SEO" and install the RankMath with no issues? Thanks again, Paolo

[@CanadianHeather]

It will import your settings so long as you activate the setting when you are setting it up.

[@BrainyJulius]

Hey, I love your videos. Which software or tools do you use please?

[@darrelwilson]

For my website? Or recording,?

[@BrainyJulius]

@@darrelwilson Recording

[@darrelwilson]

Julius Musembi I used screenflow and Final Cut Pro to edit

[@BrainyJulius]

@@darrelwilson Thank you sir.

[@topnetworkersgroup]

hmmmmmmmm Super interested already in the first 5 minutes ::::: does this video discuss what happens if I transfer from Yoast to Rankmath? For pages that already have 'meta data' in them, will it keep it or do I have to retype it all?? Would love to know

[@topnetworkersgroup]

and at 5:30 he answered; dope - they thought of that too

[@olgawillemsen5238]

Hi Darrel, and thanks for your videos! RankMath introduced Pro versions and certain functions are not any longer available in the free version like analytics. Will you make a new video with your comments and advice?

[@eddier.6749]

Hi Darrel, cannot get the authorization code from the search console. Apparently a lot of people are having this problem

[@MartynWielemaker]

Hi Darrel, very nice video, thank you for this! I'm using Yoast for 5 years now, I'm seriously considering making the switch to RM. Does it affect my ranking in Google?

[@darrelwilson]

i wish i could give you an answer, but i just dont know :(

[@RightWAYLive]

Hi, great content but I want to know about, Rank math request access to my Analytics and AdSense data and I don’t get why - how does rank math use my data? I didn’t find info about it. can you help me out, thanks in advance

[@BdelaCAS]

for local SEO section, i didn't get any of those fields for when i wrote organization, just url and logo and name

[@MicrotechKnivesOfficial]

Im not seeing opengraph on RankMath?

[@darrelwilson]

I’m not sure what that is, keep in mind this plug-in updates variously so if your options are not exactly the same don’t panic

[@RogueWolfCreations]

thanks for this :)

[@darrelwilson]

thanks again!

[@francis-md]

Then it does not make sense to have Site Kit plugin from google once Rank Math is in place?

[@WIThEMaN2]

Hi, great vid thanks! But when you have multiple clients, how do you manage the rank math accounts? Do you ask all of their google accounts to link to google or do you use your own? How does this work with google my busness? I'm sure you always need to ask the clients google account right?

[@daveedajane]

Thanks For Sharing I am going to make the change

[@tamiltechplaza9209]

Don't change anything because your site more effects your current SEO

[@mukonank783]

😭😭 when I google search my site it appears on the fifth page

[@IsabelleRo]

Hello Darryl, now they have launch Rank Math Pro. Do you still think that the free version of Rank math is better than the free version of Yoast ? I have still to learn about this and of course I will start with the free version. I just wonder what you think now after there pro release ?

[@darrelwilson]

hey isabelle, ill look into this. I just moved into my new apartment and looking for an office! but i will take a look at the new pro version and do a review on it as soon as i can

[@IsabelleRo]

@@darrelwilson OK, cool, thanks. Good luck in your new apartment :)

[@thepuldarshana9056]

when i install rank math, search console option is not showing . why is that ?

[@TheAntipreneur]

I don't have several of the grey menu options you have shown. Including SEO analysis??

[@TheAntipreneur]

26:58 says you will cover how to setup your homepage - did I miss that coming back around?

[@darrelwilson]

i do this at the end, but i only do the post. The page and post work the same way. ( but for pages you dont need to worrk about the score too much )

[@TheAntipreneur]

@@darrelwilson thank you

[@tentwelvedesign]

The schema section so this plugin is telling me we don't need the Schema pro plugin no longer?

[@foodonfocus6146]

Hey great video! We were just wondering how to optimize homepage or any page content using divi builder and rank math as when we click the divi builder it shows an error where it says add a post content module or edit using theme builder. Please let us know if you know some work arounds! Highly appreciated.

[@ProgrammingwithPeter]

Important thing on "Remove Stopwords from Permalinks" just noticed the message below, it says that it's going to affect only "auto-generated" content so if you need "and" you just need to put the slug yourself. It might be good for someone else, not sure how good is for SEO purposes to remove the stop words. Also for "Misc Pages" the correct placeholder should be "%search_query% " NOT "%searchphrase%"

As for the image section, the alt tag fine, but then doing the missing title, do all pic then get a design or graphical edit? as the title is normally below the pics..?

[@etfetf7007]

Hello Darrel please how do you insert yourself in your presentations?

[@darrelwilson]

i have a video on this, search how to make a youtube video in my channel, its there!

[@thebibleproof]

41:56 Darrel, Try adding WPX to your list. I have had their managed hosting SSD Cloud, for the past 3 ½ years, without any issues; their live support is amazing when I want to get under the hood. They claim to be the fastest and do detailed comparisons like you have here. They handle Divi 4 like a dream. Check it out.

[@darrelwilson]

ahh i would but i actually left them out. I saw their website and maybe i should of included them, maybe ill have a dedicated video on them

[@AhmedBinary]

welcome back 👍

[@jhomarreiperas1688]

So Darrel, which of the two is a much better and a must-use plugin?

[@darrelwilson]

you can use either or, its up to you

[@jhomarreiperas1688]

@@darrelwilson I'm trying Rank Math right now ...

[@rameshnaidu8368]

Hey Buddy I love ❤️ your videos, I have a small doubt, when I select images for WordPress site few are smaller few are bigger than needed so kindly help to select the images for hero section, header and remaining, if possible make a video it will be helpful to so many people, thank you.

[@AazibGilani]

Hey Darrel, Big thanks for the video. Just one question though. I am seeing the autogenerated excerpt in google instead of the SEO description that I placed in the plugin. I have %excerpt% in my settings and followed step by step what you said. Is there something I'm missing or can you guide me on this? Thanks

[@taxaction1]

I use theseoframework plugin. Would you say this is lighter? The features of Rank Math are impressive especially if they work. Users were at 20k when I last checked. They must be doing something right.

[@darrelwilson]

yup, now at 100k. The features are hard to ignore and it does what yoast does. So it wouldnt be bad to make the switch

[@thepuldarshana9056]

can you please do new long video on this SEO plugin for 2021 ?

[@darrelwilson]

i will create a new video

[@thepuldarshana9056]

@@darrelwilson thanks from all of us

[@mardatillah1535]

I have used the plugin, it's easy and very light, without having to add other add-ons, recommendations

[@GunjFashion]

i am using yoast already will it affect my website seo if i remove it and add rankmath?

[@darrelwilson]

only use one, migrate the setttings in the startup wizard

[@GunjFashion]

@@darrelwilson thank u applied..hope not effect in future..u making amazing content..waiting for flatsome new one..

[@glennhaughton7493]

If I switch to Rank Math, should I get rid of Yoast first? Or can I just leave it in and just use Math....

[@Omario8o]

Hi Darrel, Thanks again for this great step by step RankMath tutorial. i have a question if you can help me out please. my generated XML Sitemap contains only 3 URLs While my website contains 10 pages, i don't know what is going wrong but i'm unable to figure it out.. if you can answer me about that issue i'm having here.. Appreciated bro

[@kimberlyvanborkulo6569]

Hi Darrel- I'm watching your video- I've installed it and it seems to be categorizing each page as an article! Do you have any suggestions?

[@KennethMacMillen]

Hey Darrel, I just found that my website was hacked and the RankMath Plugin was the culprit. It was redirecting all the links on the site to a completely different website. Have you heard anything about this before? Ps. I really appreciate your content man. KenMac

[@khairulhafizabukasim3235]

seriously ?

[@KennethMacMillen]

Khairul hafiz Abu kasim Yep. Got rid of the plug-in and the redirection went away. Not that I will not use/try it again. I have it on many site with no problems.

[@Mohitsharma-vlogs]

I made a website in october so how much time it will take for rank ? I am using rank math too....

[@shaziaagha29]

I have moved from YOAST to Rank Math but when I pressed site analysis the following error is showing. API Error: cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 30001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received. Please advise how to resolve this. Thank you

[@O_Luis_Nunes]

Hi, I followed this video and set up the sotfware. But now I don't get the rank math below the content. I can't see it anywhere. Can you help me? By the way, you make awesome videos.

[@angangiri8207]

Hi Darrel, in my WordPress dashboard, the Search Console option under RankMath is not appearing, I mean to say the option r8 above SEO analysis under RankMath... What should I do?

[@mrthugcc1599]

When i am Using Rank math plugin and after creating a post the feature image is unavailable at the time of sharing on whatsapp and Telegram..Please help me out!!