Rank Math SEO PRO
It goes without saying that, although it is obvious, no SEO plugin works miracles just by installing it. If you are not a professional SEO, the best thing to do is to use it as a guide of good practices and use the minimum actions that are recommended to offer better results in search engines, but do not allow yourself to be governed by style.
It is also not a good idea to become obsessed with trying to get "all green" as some users of this type of add-ons tend to do. This does not always mean that you are guaranteed good results. Although SEO doesn't keep me awake at night, I don't neglect it either.
Writing for humans
In the end, what remains and works is still what really interests, entertains, is useful or all of them together.
As a result of the agony of "overSEO", there are already too many texts, and entire blogs, that are written for an algorithm, masses of irrelevant filler straw, often ridiculous and absurd syntax just to crush keywords. All of it adorned with hundreds of annoying, superfluous tidbits as a lure for the occasional distracted click.
Some of the blame lies in the way these plugins are used, starting with intoxicating the style by misunderstanding the suggestions to achieve a certain score and ending up sacrificing the natural tone in exchange for the illusion of a better position in Google.
Hello, Rank Math
The three plugins that I have used in depth are: Yoast Seo, possibly the most popular, The SEO Framework, the lightest, and Rank Math, which I think is evolving very well to eat the toast of the most used ones. In fact, the free version of Rank Math is quite sufficient and has standard options that in Yoast, and other plugins, are payment making, it one of the most compensated options to start with.
After testing these three plugins for long periods of time and having enough elements of comparison, I have decided to stay, at least for a while, with Rank Math. So I got the pro version to play with it more thoroughly.
It's not my intention to turn this text into a comparison, there are already hundreds of posts that "fight" Rank Math with Yoast and other add-ons. Even Rank Math is presented as an alternative to Yoast SEO.
At the bottom of this text you will find an initial list of pros and cons. A preview, for its price and options, I think it is the most balanced of the three in their respective modes of payment.
How much does it cost?
There are two premium versions.
The PRO, which costs 59 dollars plus taxes (although if during the purchase process from Spain you put your VAT equivalent number (the prefix ES + DNI number + letter) you pay it without taxes, since the purchase is made through an authorised seller in Santa Barbara, California (USA).
This version allows:
-Unlimited installations on personal pages. (I still don't know how they will control that they are truly personal).
-Track 500 keywords.
-24/7 support.
-Renewal is annual and costs the same, $59.
The other plan called BUSINESS already goes up to $199 for 10,000 keywords, 24/7 priority support and the option of unlimited installations on client sites.
Installing
There's not much mystery here, if you're familiar with WordPress it's business as usual. If you're a newcomer to this stuff, it's explained here in a nutshell less than two minutes video.
To install and activate the Pro version, after purchaseyou must first have the free version installed. The PRO does not work without it.
Even warning when a new update is available for Rank Math, always update the free version FIRST. Only after updating the free version rank Math, you can update the Rank Math PRO version.
If you look at the screenshot with the screenshot of today's announcement, until the free version is updated, the link to update the PRO version is not even shown. Once you finish updating the free version, the link for PRO appears.
Configuration wizard
Once installed and activated we get the configuration wizard.
Here, the most important thing is that if you are using another SEO plugin, do not uninstall it because the wizard will first detect it and, if it is compatible with the Rank Math configurator, you will be able to import all the settings of your old plugin.
Now you will be able to import your settings from both the free and premium versions of Yoast SEO and the All in One SEO Pack.
Once you have imported the configuration and verified that everything is in order, it is advisable to uninstall the old plugin to avoid conflicts.
The process is very intuitive and simple, you can opt for the first option "easy" which is the fastest and most basic or jump to "ready" and resume the configuration at any time from this same wizard that you will find above the main panel of modules.
