Hi guys my name is Ferdy, and in this video,
I'm going to explain everything I know about
an amazing plug-in called RankMath.
It's better than Yoast SEO, and it's all about
optimizing your website for the Google results.
Let me show you what we will cover in this
tutorial.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to download
the free plug-in RankMath.
We will configure the plug-in.
Get a Google search console account so we
get more information on how good we are found
on the internet, through which words and terms
we are found on the Internet, what the behavior
is of people on our website.
We will configure our monitor or 404 pages.
And if you think what are 404 pages, do not
worry my friends.
I will explain in this tutorial what it is.
I will walk you through all these steps.
We will optimize our search result, titles,
URL and text below the titles -- the area
people will see when they search for something
on Google, and we will even configure it in
such a way that all the posts and pages and
products on your website automatically will
be optimized for Google.
But you can optimize all your post pages and
products even more with RankMath.
You get handy tips to optimize your website
even further.
So you will be found better, get more visitors
to turn them into clients, make more money,
and be a blessing to the people around you.
Thanks to this amazing plug-in and to this
tutorial.
We will do even more and you will find out
about it in this tutorial.
If you want to know more about a certain subject
within this tutorial, you can go to the timestamps
in the description.
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Let's get started.
So the first thing we want to do is get RankMath.
It's totally free.
You can get it over here.
I go to a new tab and I type ferdykorp.com/RankMath.
Then I hit enter.
A WordPress SEO plugin for e-commerce stores
but also for a lot more for normal web sites,
for niche websites.
If you scroll down, you see what rank math
can do for you, and then we can add stars,
we can add information about a company, our
domain name over here an image of our logo
or an image of ourselves.
It can look so much better using Rich Snippets
which is a free option within RankMath and
which cost money at Yoast.
So there are a lot of Pro features for free.
People seem to love it and here you can see
more about all the amazing things RankMath
can do for you.
I will show you what you can do in this tutorial.
So I click on download over here.
So it's downloading over here, then I go to
my website.
I go to the backend.
If you're not logged in, you can go to your
WordPress website forward slash after the
domain name /wp-admin, and then you can log
in.
Then I want to go to plugins > add new > upload
plug-in and then I drag this over here.
I click on Install Now, and I close this.
Then we activate the plug-in, and then we
need to connect a free account.
How can we do that?
We can click over here and we can sign up
with our Facebook account, Google account,
or an email address.
I will use an email address.
My name is Ferdy, my email address is this
one and I click on register.
Awesome, now I go back over here and I click
on activate RankMath.
That's it.
I click on OK and now I'm logged in.
What we can do now?
First, RankMath will check if your website
is compatible and it is, you can see it over
here, which PHP version you have and all that
stuff.
When everything is fine, you click on start
wizard.
If you YoastSEO already or other plugins,
RankMath can import all that data for you.
If you want to know how to change a website
from YoastSEO to RankMath, you can click over
here.
Right now, I will skip this.
So I click on skip - don't import now and
then we go to step 2, your website.
So this is my website Photography | Film | Web
design -- Ferdy Korp Media and here we need
to fill in some information.
What kind of website is it?
Is it the webshop or is it a personal blog,
community blog, news site, small business
site.
Well, I think this one is a small business
site.
I'm sure it is.
And what kind of business type is it?
I make websites.
So website.
Then here the company name, so let me say
Ferdy Korp media, and this is what will appear
in Google.
So if I go and search for Google search console,
you see information over here in Google search
console which is a website and then some text
over here, and when you say over here, your
company name is Ferdy Korp Media, it will
appear over here.
Then logo for Google.
You can upload the logo -- this is my logo.
If you click over here you can search through
your library or upload new files from your
computer.
Well, mine is there already and then there's
a default social share image.
I want to upload one or get one from my library.
So I scroll down -- so 200x200 will be fine
for me.
Use this file and it says over here the recommended
image size is 1200x630 but I choose a square
one.
Then I click on save and continue, and then
we go to the next step.
We need to use search console and it will
help you to get a lot of important information
from your website that will help you to make
your website even better and be found better
in Google.
So in order to get it, I click on get Authorization
code and I need to log in to my Google account.
So I use this one, Ferdy Korp for instance.
If you don't have a Google account, you can
get a Gmail account and they have a Google
account and you can link those.
So I scroll down and I click on allow.
Please copy this code, switch to your application,
and paste it here.
So I copy this, I paste the code and I was
authorized, and now I can go to search console
and choose my profile, but it will probably
not be there yet.
As you see, what do I need to do?
I need to go to Google search console, start
here, make sure it is my Ferdy Korp account
and I want to add a new domain.
I can do it in two ways.
I want to use the domain way.
So I say over here, https://elementorcity.com
-- and this can be a little tricky because
we are going to use DNS verification.
But I will show you step by step.
I can remove this and I click on continue.
So what I need to do?
I need to copy this code, then I need to go
to my provider, which is Siteground, you can
go to your domain hosting, login and if you
don't know how this works, then can open a
chat session or send an email to them and
ask them if they can do it for you.
So I'm over here, I go to websites here at
Siteground.
I go to site tools, then, I go to domain DNS
zone editor, domain name server, and then
I need to go to TXT, as you see over here.
Copy the txt record below to the DNS configuration.
So here I am.
I paste the value and I click on create.
So it's now created, it is over here.
Now I need to wait probably and I can click
on verify.
Ownership verified -- that's how it works.
Click on done.
Now, if I click over here I can go to elementorcity
-- awesome.
What I want to do now, I go back to the setup
wizard and I refresh all the sites.
Now, I search for elementorcity, there it
is.
If this does not work for you, or you're confused,
then open a chat session with your web hosting
provider and they should be able to walk you
through the steps.
I click on save and continue and then we go
to sitemaps.
Sitemaps are really important.
Sitemap is actually a file - an XML file -that
you've sent to Google or to Bing or to a different
search engine and it contains all the important
information of your website.
So it becomes easier for Google and all those
other search engines to crawl your website
and get all the important information.
So do I want to use sitemaps -- yes.
Click on 'on'.
Do I want to include images -- yes.
And if you have posts, pages, products, or
even more things, I will check them all because
you want to be found on all those pages, and
post and products pages.
Public Taxonomies -- I want to include them
all.
So I click on select, so I can be found on
any page in my website.
If I turn off posts, I will not be found on
my posts in my WordPress website and I want
to be found on everything.
I click on save and continue; awesome.
Then we want to optimize our website, SEO
tweaks, Noindex Empty category, and tag archives.
If you want to create a new category for your
blog posts, for instance, affiliate marketing,
because you want to create affiliate marketing
related blog posts in the future, but you
have no blog posts yet related to the category
-- affiliate marketing.
Then you decide over here, if you turn this
on, when a category is empty, for instance,
affiliate marketing category in your blog
post, it contains no blog posts with that
category, it will not be shown in the index.
I turn it down because it is better for the
Google search results.
Nofollow on external links.
I turn this off because if I link to an external
website, I want Google to follow it because
when you link to other websites and other
websites link to you, it can also be good
for your search results.
So I want to turn this off and open external
links in a new tab.
I like that.
So if I click over here on a link, it will
open in a new tab instead of a new window.
I prefer that, so I click on save and continue.
Awesome.
Our website score at this moment is 82 and
I want to enable auto-update of this plugin.
So when there's an update, it will automatically
be updated.
And then I scroll down and I want to go to
the Advanced Options.
So I click over here.
When you have more active users on your website,
you will see an extra option over here, something
like this -- the role manager.
There you can say, all the administrators
have access to those features within RankMath.
In that way, you can give administrators,
editors, and authors certain roles when they
are logged in into your website.
I don't have that because I have only one
user in my website.
So I go to the 404 + Redirection options.
So what you can do over here at 404 and Redirections,
you can turn them on.
Here at 404 monitor, if I turn this on, it
means that when somebody goes to a page that
does not exist, for instance, elementorcity.com/123456...,
that means they go to a page that does not
exist.
And I want to know when people go to a page
like that, because then there's an error in
my website and I can get rid of that error.
What else I can do, I can create a redirection.
If I turn this on I can decide in these settings
that when somebody goes to page that does
not exist, then I can redirect them immediately
to the home page or to a 404 page, or to a
specific page I have created for people that
go to page that does not exist.
I can say on the page, "Hey, I'm sorry you're
here.
At the page that does not exist anymore.
Click here to go to the home page or to donate
a thousand dollars to my PayPal account."
So it's up to you what you can do.
I will turn them on and I click on save and
continue.
So at schema mark up, you can give more information
to Google and other search engines, so they
can make your search result look better.
If I go to Google, and I search for PlayStation
4 Pro, I skip all the ads, and for instance,
over here at coolblue -- dutch website, you
see the rating, you see reviews, you see the
price and more information, and that is something
you can do over here at schema mark up.
Not all those settings, but a lot of those
settings.
So let's take a look at that.
I want to turn this on.
Schema type for posts -- a post is an article
but maybe, all your blog posts are about books.
Then you can say, I want it to be a book.
Or a course, event, music; maybe you have
a website where you show people how to make
beautiful meals.
Maybe you have a website about cooking.
Well all the blog posts are maybe about recipes
then you can check this, or in my case, if
I go to ferdykorpershoek.com, all my blog
posts are videos.
So I can say "video."
I will leave it at article over here and then
article type, it is a blog post.
So for pages, I can also say none, or just
an article and then I select article over
here.
Schema type for products, so I leave it as
it is, and the more post types you have like
posts, pages, houses -- whatever, the more
options you see over here, and you can give
every post type or article type a certain
category.
So that's okay with me.
I click on save and continue.
Now, it says here, welcome to RankMath.
So you see over here a few options and they
can be turned on, active or inactive -- turned
off.
I don't use Advanced Custom Fields, so it's
turned off.
I don't use bbPress; I don't use AMP.
I want to use Link Counter, and if I see something
I want to use, the role manager for instance,
I can turn it on and then I can adjust the
settings over here.
So let me go to that.
Here I can say the administrator should have
access to everything, and editor -- you know
what -- I want to give editors also access
to this area of RankMath.
And authors and contributors, all that stuff,
I don't want to give them any access.
When I'm happy I click on update, or when
I have the settings I have in mind.
So I go back to the dashboard and I'm happy
with this.
Here we can take a look at import and export,
settings.
So if I like those settings, I can export
them to a different website, but before we
do that, I prefer to go to all the other configurations.
So here at the RankMath, I go to general settings,
I close this, this, and this and then we talk
about links.
So here are some link settings.
Let's start with the upper one -- strip category
base.
If you turn it on, what it will do, it will
make your domain like example.com/category/my-category,
become example.com/my-category.
So this area will be left out.
So if I go to my website.
I go to the blog page, I go to this blog post
and then I go to category - Self-Improvement.
This area will be left out.
When I go to a blog page, it looks like this
-- the domain and then the link and I decided
to do that here at the dashboard.
Then the settings of WordPress.
Permalinks, I use the post name over here,
and I turn this off.
I leave it as it is, because I like people
to see the category.
You can turn it on.
If you turn it on, you can not turn it off
anymore.
You can, but if you do so you can get 404
errors because then the links will not work
anymore.
Because then there's a chance that Google
links to an old page.
So it's up to you if you turn it on.
If you really want to know, why I should do
this, you can click over here, and there it
will be explained.
Redirect attachments -- I turn it on.
It means when you find an attachment through
Google, through a search result, you will
go to the post where they appear in.
So I turn it on.
Redirect orphan attachments -- I redirect
them to my website but with https.
Remove stop words from permalinks - no.
That means when there's a blog post like Ferdy
and Anna are getting their second child, it's
not the case, yet but maybe when you watch
this video, we have two or three or 15 children
already... no, not 15, but it will remove
the "AND's", and the "THE's" and the "A's".
I don't like it.
I want my permalink which appears over here
to be just exactly as it is.
So if I go to the blog again, "as a man thinks
in his heart, so is he," and this will be
removed and a few short stop words.
I don't that.
So I turn that off.
No follow - we discussed this already when
we were doing the wizard.
So I leave this off; I leave this off, and
I turn this on.
I save the changes and then we can go to the
images, and here are two options.
Missing alt attributes.
I love this.
It will save you a lot of time.
I turn this on.
What will happen?
When you add a new image on your website,
it will automatically fill in the alt attribute.
Normally, I have to do this manually, then
I copy the file name and I need to remove
the dashes, but here I can choose how it should
be named without me doing anything about it.
So what I can do, I can click here on the
drop down and I can say, I want to have counter,
or I want to attach the file name.
Well, I like, personally, to use a file name.
So if the file name of my image is called
"sunrise," it will appear automatically in
the alt attribute.
When you have this in the alt attribute, you
will be found better by that in Google.
The same goes over here; missing title attributes,
I want to do exactly the same.
So I remove this and then I search for a file
name.
I save the changes.
So now when I upload an image, it will automatically
have the file name in the alt text and in
the title attribute.
The great thing is, if you want to know more
about all these settings, you can click on
learn more and there's an amazing knowledge
base over here, with all the information with
gif files, with explanation, really great.
So let's go to breadcrumbs and I can tell
you, you can leave this as it is, otherwise,
you need to paste this somewhere in the PHP
code.
It's too complicated, you don't need it, so
let's go to webmaster tools.
Google search console.
If it's not verified yet, click over here,
copy this code, paste it, here and that's
it.
The same you can do with bing webmaster tools,
Baidu webmaster tools, Alexa -- I personally
use Google search console and you can use
Bing.
Those are two biggest ones.
I never use those.
I click on Save Changes, and then edit robots.txt,
leave it as it is.
You don't have to do anything over here.
Same over here; leave it as it is and then
if you have a WooCommerce website, you can
click on WooCommerce.
Then we have remove base, and it's doing the
same as with links.
It makes the link shorter, so products > accessories
> action figures and then this one will be
changed into this one.
So I like to keep it shorter.
Keep in mind, you cannot undo it.
Otherwise, you can get 404 errors, but I like
it to be shorter.
Remove category base - so product-category/accessories
becomes accessories.
Well I never like this one, so I turn this
one on.
Remove parent slugs, so product-category/accessories/action-figures
will be changed to product-category/action-figures.
No.
I like to have all the categories over here,
so I turn it off.
Remove generator tag; I will give this on.
Remove schema markup on shops -- yes, and
then the brand.
I leave it as that is.
Save the changes and let's go to others.
So over here, there are some other settings.
Useage tracking -- I turn it on.
Why?
Because it will help RankMath to become even
more powerful, and they do not use your data
or whatsoever, it's completely anonymous.
If you turn this on, it will show you calculated
SEO score as a badge on the front end for
selected post types.
It can be disabled for a specific post.
So if I turn his on, I can select where I
want to show this and I can make it a square
or a circle, above, below content, or only
above, only below, or using a shortcode.
I can support RankMath with a link, but I
do not use this.
It's for your own purpose, or you can show
people how good your website is optimized,
but I leave it off.
Then with RSS Before Content and RSS After
Content.
With RSS, you can fetch information from other
websites.
So maybe someone wants to have news feeds
of a lot of different websites.
Well, they can add it to their own RSS feed
and we can decide what people will see over
here.
Here are some variables and I like to show
a featured image first, then a blog link,
and then the blog post will appear.
After the blog post, I want to say this blog
post is originally from ...here and written
by ...this guy.
I save the changes and then I go to the 404
monitor.
There are two modes - simple and advanced.
If you have a new website use simple.
Log limit -- I will turn this to zero.
It doesn't matter if you have a big website
or small website, you will never be limited
with a log limit.
You can exclude path, so if you say, for instance,
my category, self-improvement, we will change
it to improvement or self-improvement ,and
without this [ - ] over here.
Well, in that case, if you do not want RankMath
to log those errors, you can say everything
that has to do with self-improvement and cannot
be found, it will not be logged by the monitor,
because it's on purpose that it has changed.
Then you can turn this on.
I don't need it.
Save the changes.
Let's go again to search console.
We need to select elementorcity or own domain,
cache limit, how many days to keep data rows
in a cache and ID is fine.
I save it, and then I go to Redirections.
Do I want to debug redirections; I leave this
off and then here at fallback behavior, you
can send people to a default 404 page which
is created by the WordPress website, or redirect
them to the home page, but then the visitor
can be a little bit confused like hey, I went
to a certain URL and now I go to the home
page, what happened?
Or you create a custom redirection page, and
then at that page you can create something
creative, like hey, I think you have entered
page that does not exist anymore.
Here you can choose what you want to do.
Go to the homepage or do something else, and
you can make it really beautiful.
You're not limited by the default 404 page.
You can secrete something beautiful with Elementor
or the page builder you prefer.
So that's it.
Redirection type 301 is okay, and I turn this
off.
I'll leave it off.
So those were the settings.
Let's take a look at titles and meta, and
keep in mind that those settings are really
important.
They will save you a lot of time, not only
for everything you've done in your website,
but also if you add a new blog post or a new
product in your website, then these settings
will determine how the website will be optimized.
Even though, you can change all the settings
over here, you can always override the settings
in individual blog post pages, WooCommerce
pages and other kinds of pages you have.
So this will just save you a lot of time,
but you can always override.
I'll show you how you can do that.
So let's start with a global meta options.
So what you can do?
You can say, I want to have my website not
indexed.
No pages will be indexed but, I see no reason
why you should do that when you're watching
this video.
So I turn this off.
Everything will be indexed right now.
If you see this, just leave it as it is.
Noindex, empty category and Tag Archives,
we talked about this.
Turn it on.
If you have no posts in a certain category,
it will not be indexed which is better for
your search results.
Separator character; I always like to use
this one.
So wherever in the website in all these settings,
I say I place this tag, a separator will be
shown.
So keep that in mind.
So post title and then you see the site title.
So first you see the post title, how to get
a better life by Ferdy Korpershoek Media and
then you see the separator.
If you change it, you see it changed over
here.
Then here you see https://elementorcity.com
and then the post title.
It looks beautiful.
Capitalized title -- yes .That means that
every first letter of every word will have
a capital letter.
I like that.
OpenGraph Thumbnail -- that means, when there
is no featured image on a page or a post or
whatever page you have, then this image will
be shown, when it will be shared on something
like Facebook.
You can change it, upload a file, maybe I
have a photo of myself.
This one, I can use that.
Twitter card type -- you can say summary card
or summary card with large image.
I leave it as it is.
Save the changes.
Let's go to local SEO; there's a chance you
do not see this.
Why do you not see this?
Because I said that I am a small local company
in the wizard.
So there's a reason you do not see this when
you do not see that.
If you have it, you can say you are a person
or an organization.
Let's say I'm a person, no, I'm an organization
Ferdy Korp Media; my logo; my URL; I can leave
my email address; my address.
And I can show my address -- format address,
locality region and postal code.
I can change it all.
I can add my country like that.
So I can change that.
Business type - I have a website.
My opening hours, how do I want to display
that, with AM and PM and all that stuff.
You can show your price range, or this About
Us page... about.
Then here is the contact page, well the contact
page, and this can be used in the Rich Snippets
when you search on google for this website,
or for Ferdy Korp Media.
Google Maps API key -- if you have Google
Maps and you have and API key, you can paste
it over here.
If you want to get your coordinates, then
you can go to maps.google.com.
If I would say Van Geeststraat 1 's-Gravenzande,
that's where I have my office.
I will leave there in a month, but I just
want to show you something over here.
Right mouse click, what's here and then I
see this code over here, also over here.
Longitude and latitude, and then I will show
it like that.
But you need to have your Google Maps API
key, otherwise it will not be shown.
So that's what you can do.
Let's go to social media, and let's fill in
all these pages you have https://facebook.com/ferdykorpershoek.
If you have a Facebook authorship, and that's
your personal page you can paste it here.
Facebook admin a numeric id, if you want to
find that just Google how to find your Facebook
id.
That's how you can find that and you can place
it over here.
If you have an app, secret you can paste it
over here.
Twitter - https://twitter.com/FerdyKorp; username
- Ferdy Korp; Google Places -- Yelp, LinkedIn,
Instagram, https://instagram.com/ferdykorpershoek.
I see you need to add your forward slash probably
and then you can fill in all things over here
and if you're ready you can save it.
The homepage -- it is the home page; that's
all you have to do over here.
If you want to change that, you can go to,
let me see, settings > reading and there you
can change your homepage.
Post formats - really important.
Right now, how will it be shown?
From archive titles, so if I go to the website,
to the blog page and the blog posts, and then
I go to a self-improvement category, how should
it be shown?
Here's a separator, here's a side name, and
here's a term.
I like it that way, and here you can have
a description and then you can say let there
be an excerpt.
I don't have that for my categories.
If you want that you can go to posts > categories
and if I have a category fashion, I can have
a description over here and it will be shown
over here when I say show an excerpt.
Let me see, first here, then excerpt -- yes.
Format archives robot meta -- it says custom,
do I want to index them?
Just leave it as it is.
By the way, all those settings are optimized.
So when you change nothing, they are good.
But you can make them better if you want to.
But, over here, they're all fine.
I save it and then we go to the next one -- authors.
If you have more authors you enable this,
so Google knows they need to search for more
authors, and if you have only one author then
you disable it.
If you enable it, how should it be called,
author, I think that's perfect.
So it will say elementorcity.com/author and
then Ferdy Forpershoek.
Then author robot meta, noindex, I don't want
this page to be found.
A lot of times a page with not much information,
so I prefer that people will find important
pages on my website instead of the author
page, and again this, when I see this I leave
it as it is.
Author archive title -- Ferdy Korpershoek
| Ferdy Korp Media page 2 of 4.
If I have a lot of blog posts, for instance,
it will be shown like this.
Then description, again I can say excerpt.
If I want to show this then I need to go to
edit my profile, scroll down, then I can have
some information over here and that will be
fetched over here when I say... or let me
see.
Here, that will be fetched over here.
Add Seo meta box for users -- yes.
Save it.
Okay, let's go to the miscellaneous pages.
Date archives -- I personally really don't
like dates in my titles.
So I disable this and then if somebody searches
for something, example search page 2 of 4
from Ferdy Korp Media.
So I can change it over here, the search query,
then the which pages it is, the separator
and then the site name.
If the page is not found, the page is not
found Ferdy Korp Media.
Noindex, noindex... let me see.
Yes, I don't want to index that.
I don't want to index the paginated pages.
The subpage -- I don't want it to be indexed
and prevent password protected pages from
getting indexed by Google - yes.
I don't want that.
Save the changes.
Then I go to the posts.
So how do I want to display my posts and again
these are the basic settings and then you
can overwrite them by the individual settings
you choose for each post, or page, or products.
And actually I like this.
The title of the blog post with a separator
and site name.
The single post description excerpt -- yes.
Schema type -- we talked about is already;
article, headline and the SEO title description,
seo description.
Article type -- for the blog post, it is just
blog post, and I leave this all as it is because
I think, yeah, we discussed this already in
the wizard.
So I don't have to change anything because
it's already perfect.
Then we go to the pages, again, the page Ferdy
Korp Media, the excerpt, it's an article with
an SEO title and an SEO description.
This is an article because it's a static page.
Page robots meta - default.
You don't have to change this.
So, perfect!
Then, attachments; again, title, separator,
site name; perfect.
The excerpt, the schema type -- nothing.
Media robots -- custom; I do not index them.
Again, it's a setting from a RankMath and
I leave them.
That's the right setting.
Save the changes, there are actually no changes.
Let's go to products and again when you have
WooCommerce installed, and I like it -- the
title, separator and the name.
The excerpt, okay, product archive title.
Let's see over here, product archive title
page 2 of 4 by Ferdy Korp Media, and here
again even though it's not always the case,
you have that just in case.
Schema type -- it's a product.
Let me see.. this one is default.
Link suggestion - on.
Do you want to use a title or focus keyword?
I use the titles, product categories.
A thumbnail for Facebook.
So again here you can upload something that
if you do not have a picture for a product,
I see no reason why you should not have that
but if you don't have it, then you can have
a fallback image, which can be something like
this.
Add SEO meta box, I turn it on.
I enable this and I don't want to have any
custom fields.
Then we have our Posts.
Categories -- the category, the separator
and then site name.
I want to have the excerpt here.
Default.
Turn is on.
Remove this; save it.
Tags.
You know, RankMath does an amazing job itself
by having a lot of great settings already.
So we don't have to change a lot.
Also here, perfect!
So that's it.
From now on all the titles in our website
will be fetched by Google in a really beautiful
way.
Then we have product categories, excerpts
and the product tags.
Latest one excerpt.
Let me see.
Yes.
So, let's go to the next one, to sitemap settings.
So what are sitemaps?
The sitemap is an index of all the content
on your website which helps search engines
to easily discover your content.
With sitemap, you can be sure that Google
and other search engines will know all about
the content on your website, whether they
index it or not.
Also with sitemaps, you can prioritize certain
pages.
So if there's a really important blog post
on your website, you can say to Google, this
page is important, rank it first of all my
pages.
So your sitemap can have more pages.
So if you have 400 links and the maximum here
is 200, you will have two site maps.
So you can say, I want it to be 400, but RankMath
found out that when you have a sitemap with
a maximum of 200 links, it will be fetched
better by Google.
So leave it at 200.
Do you want to include images in your sitemap
-- yes, of course.
Do you want to include featured images in
your sitemap -- yes, of course.
We can exclude post from being indexed.
If you want to do that then go to the blog
posts, let me see, or pages.
I go to all posts, I click over here, and
then I see it has ID 170.
So if I turn it, or place it over here, that
blog post will not be indexed.
You can do the same with categories.
You go to posts, categories.
If I index fashion, I see ID 26.
So I can say ID 26 should not be included.
Ping search engines -- that means that when
you change something, Google will get a message,
hey this website has changed so index it again.
Of course, we want that.
So we save the changes.
Then we go to the posts.
So depending on what you have installed on
your website, you'll see different post types
over here.
For now, I want to turn everything on.
What you see over here, there are multiple
sitemaps.
This one over here is elementorcity.com/post-sitemap.xml.
This is being created by RankMath and I like
it.
So I go to pages and now you see here page.sitemap.
All the settings are okay.
I go to media and it says to generate attachment
sitemap, disable attachment redirection to
parent.
In order to fix that, go to the general settings
> links and redirect attachments.
Turn it off.
Save the changes, then we go to the sitemap
again and then add media, turn it on.
Save it.
Awesome!
Then to products, also perfect.
Let's go to categories.
We will find include in sitemap.
Include empty terms -- off.
Same goes for a text -- on and off; product
categories on and off and tags -- on and off.
Save it.
So now we need to do one of the most important
things in order to be found in Google.
We go to Google and search for Google search
console.
Then we log in, start here, let me see Ferdy
Korp, then I click over here.
I select the property which is elementorcity.
I don't need to start actually.
Okay.
Then over here, I go to sitemaps and you see
there are no sitemaps yet.
What I need to do now?
I go to my website.
I go to posts or maybe general.
I grab the complete link.
I want to add an s -- https.
Submit.
Submitting the sitemap.
Google will now process it and you'll be notified
if anything goes wrong in the future.
Then you do the same with posts, copy; paste
it.
Then pages and so on.
In the beginning, it says couldn't fetch,
but after a few seconds it will ... submit.
Media has nothing.
So I go to products, copy it.
Taxonomies or categories.
Tags.
And we need to only enter them one time and
then Google will update it by itself.
It well check again now and then if there
are new updates.
When we change something on the website, we
will ping them so they will know immediately.
Copy, paste.
So that's it.
I want to refresh this page and they will
soon be a success.
So what's next?
Let's take a look at the role manager, we
did it already, so we can skip that.
404 monitor.
So this log will be filled with URLs when
pages are not found -- when 404 pages appear
and then we will see which link it was trying
to be accessed.
So let us check it elementorcity forward slash
something like this.
It does not exist.
If I refresh the page now -- I tried to find
this page, it wasn't found.
It has one hit and if you see a lot of hits,
you know hey, somebody is sending people to
the wrong site.
What you can do then, you can grab this link,
create a page and redirect it to the right
one.
Talking about redirection, if I copy this...
so let's try it again.
I go to elementorcity/asfsdfsa --- this site,
it does not exist.
Then you see this page.
What I can do now?
If I go to redirections over here, I can add
a new redirection.
I can send it to the new URL.
So I search for exact, let me see, this page
or from this moment on, from the forward slash,
because of course this is our website.
So from the forward slash, then this link.
It needs to be redirected, let's say, to the
contact page.
So https://elementorcity.com/contact -- it's
a 301 permanent move.
It's active and I click on add redirection.
So it's there.
Now, if I refresh this page, it should redirect
to the contact page, and it does.
So that's the power of redirections.
I use redirections all the time.
I send people to FerdyKorp.com/astra and it
will redirect them to the Astra theme, which
is amazing.
So I use redirection all the time and it that
way, when you see over here at the monitor,
that there are 404 errors, then you can redirect
them using redirection.
It is amazing that this included in RankMath.
Search console -- again wow!
Here we see some information about our website.
There are total 30 clicks, 500 impressions,
average click-through rate, average position
in google, total keywords, total pages -- they're
all indexed by google now.
We see the history of clicks and that's all
been shown by RankMath.
There we go.
Now I go to search analytics, so people that
search for "ferdy korpershoek" will go to
this website, and that's how I am found.
Then we have the keyword tracker, and it will
come soon.
So stay tuned.
Position -- when I search for ferdy korpershoek,
this page or this website is on position 6.
Ferdy Korp is on petition position 2.
So a really nice tool and in that way, you
can see if you can make things better.
You can also rank them by clicking over here.
Awesome!
Let's go to the SEO analysis, and I can start
a check.
How's my website doing?
I click on the start site-wide analysis.
We get 72; okay, and there are a few failed
tests, and here we can see what is wrong.
No h1 tag found.
For the best SEO results, there should be
exactly one h1 tag on each page.
How to fix it?
And then, wow, this is amazing.
So you can optimize your website.
It doesn't have to be perfect with no errors,
but of course you can optimize your website.
So this is how it will look.
Home | Ferdy Korp Media | elementorcity -- we
love photography.
Right now, we see the title, the separator
and the title of our website.
Here we see the URL and here we see text that
is fetched from our page.
So if I want to change this text, how can
I do that?
Well let me show you.
If I go to the website and I go to a certain
blog page.
For instance, as a man thinks in his heart,
so is he.
I made this with Gutenberg.
So if I click on edit post, I can see how
good it will rank.
Well it's 25/100 which is not good, and if
I click over here, I can see how it will look
on Google.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he -- probably
like that, and then after that my site title.
Here's the URL, the permalink and then it
says over here, the way you see yourself is
often the way you treat yourself.
So let's do something, let's view the post
and search for this over here on Google.
I paste it.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he --- Photography
| Film | Web design.
It was my title before, then there was a dash,
so it needs to be updated.
So it should say, "As a man thinks in his
heart, so is he," and then there's a symbol
like this, and then it'll say Ferdy Korp Media.
Then it says the way you see yourself is often
the way you treat yourself, and how you behave
in life.
If you think you are worth nothing then you
are.
So where is this text coming from, it's the
first paragraph.
So what we can do in order to change this,
we can click on it and now we can change this.
So I can change the title if I want to, I
can say, "As a man thinks in his heart, so
is he, Ferdy's Thoughts," and then here we
see how good we are doing.
If I have too much, it will become red, and
then we have the permalink.
I'll leave it as it is and here we can change
the description.
So it's too long and that's why you don't
see it completely.
I can change it over here, or I can totally
create a new one.
Again, it's too long.
So let me, something like that... okay..
I don't know, it makes no sense, but this
is how it will look in a few days.
How will it look on a smartphone, like this
with my icon, link and like that.
How does it look on social media, like this.
The domain, the title and the text over here.
Again, also here, we can change this.
So this is too long already.
I can remove this.
In this blog post, Ferdy will show you how
you can change your life and then it's long
enough already.
So for everything it will be updated or it
will be optimized.
Twitter, it will look like this.
Perfect!
So I'm happy, I closed it.
I click on update.
Then there's a focus keyword; what is the
focus keyword?
As a man thinks, it can also be multiple words.
Based on this keyword, you want to be found.
So now it'll say you're using a focus keyword
in the SEO title, because over here it says
"as a man thinks," but the focus keyword is
not found in your SEO meta description.
So let me update it.
Click over here.
Where is my meta description?
Here's the excerpt.
I should change it, make it shorter because
the excerpt is the text that will be fetched
for the Google search result because that
is what we have configured in the RankMath
options, by saying show the excerpt over here.
And here you show the title with a separator
and then the site title; I don't know.
If I make too complicated right now but let
me show you.
Here you see excerpt.
You can create this for every blog post and
then here we go to RankMath, site titles & meta;
I go to posts.
I say I want to show the title, the separator
and the site name.
Below in the single post description, I want
to show the excerpt.
So here the text will be shown that I have
created over here at the right... this.
But as I said, we can overrule it, override
it by clicking here, clicking here and then
change it over here.
So it's in the title.
What else?
Let me show you.
Click here.
Focus keyword not found in your SEO meta description.
So, I need to click over here.
"As a man thinks is often...," So the meta
description, now it is over there.
So that is gone.
Focus keyword doesn't appear at the beginning
of your content.
Don't over do this; keep it readable.
"As a man things is often the way..." so now
it's optimized even better.
Content is 332 words long, consider to make
it at least 600 words.
So if I would make this longer by adding some
blah blah blah.... and I copy this, and I
paste it like all the time, I click on update,
it's 502 words.
Okay.
That's good.
All good.
So now we have 78, which is really good and
then we can go to the additional IDs, focus
keyword not found in subheadings like h2.
So 
here we can change that if we want to.
Its h2-- as a man thinks...
Well, I'm overdoing it right now because...
this is not necessary to paste it here but
now you see there's an error less.
Add an image with your focus keyword as an
alt text.
So there's an image.
Write a caption --- as a man thinks.
It's not the focus keyword.
Title readability -- your title doesn't contain
a positive or a negative sentiment words,
and you can click over here and it will be
explained.
So in that way, you can optimize every page.
If I view the post and I go to a different
one, the elementor page builder, I can edit
the post, it has 0 or 19.
So the focus keyword is "Elementor" and I
have 67 already.
It looks good; content is 302 words long,
so I need to make it longer.
Well, there's enough beautiful stuff to write
about Elementor, and then I can go through
all these settings or feedback, and then I
can make it better.
The great thing about Elementor or about the
RankMath, when I go to my home page... let
me see, it's updating right now.
When I go to my home page and I edit it with
Elementor, since new update of RankMath you
can even apply SEO from within Elementor itself
without going back to the backend of WordPress.
So here I click on SEO, Home | Ferdy Korp
Media.
I can change that.
So I click on edit snippet, and now from within
Elementor, we can change it.
So I can say help us to tell your story online
- Ferdy Korp Media.
The permalink, okay.
We are specialized in helping companies to
be found better.
Yeah, copywriting is something totally different.
I want to show people that I can help them
to be found on the internet, to get more customers.
We are specialized in helping companies to
get more business by telling their story,
blah blah blah.
Something like that.
If I would save this, I think I should change
something over here and bring it back and
then I click on update.
Click over here or over here.
Go to SEO, maybe you can update it over here...
no.
But again, the focus keyword, "marketing or
rebranding."
This is great; we can have more words.
But this one is the most important one I guess.
Focus keyword does not appear in the SEO title.
So over here's SEO title.
I can say rebranding, so it is getting better,
and in that way you can optimize your website.
So let me get rid of rebranding and I will
add marketing agency.
Over here also, if I would say marketing,
it will be both.
Then I can take a look at the errors and fix
them.
Again, change the thing over here, update.
So let me check.
If I go over here to SEO, it says 68.
I go to the dashboard and it should say 68.
Over here; so it is saved.
So if you need to change something, put it
back and then you can save it and it will
be saved.
So that's what I wanted to cover in this tutorial.
You can do two things.
You can now, with your optimized, website
wait for the Google results to be changed,
to be found better.
Or you can create valuable information on
your website, great blog post, add more products,
help other people with information you have
to share on your website.
In that way, over time you will rank better.
Thank you for watching this video.
I hope you learned a ton of stuff and you
have now, if you applied everything I told
you, you've optimized your website.
So you will rank better.
But keep in mind, there can be only one, number
one in Google on any search result.
So keep on adding valuable information on
your website, and it will help you to rank
better.
My name is Ferdy.
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