Using Rank Math's 'Quick Actions' Admin Menu Item - Rank Math SEO

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rankmath's quick actions menu in wordpress's admin bar allows you to see loads of information and make changes related to the specific page you're in without having to go through the admin dashboard i'm kate and i'm going to give you a quick tour through all of its options the first quick action is for the rink math dashboard with the module section since this link does not open in a new window be prepared to leave your progress behind or open it in a new tab by pressing the ctrl key on windows or command on a mac when you click on it the next option analytics takes you to the rinkmath analytics dashboard with an overview of your website's current organic traffic performance you can open each report to delve more into the data from google search console rank math pro users also find data from google analytics the next option in quick action is eric math pro users it's called post analytics in posts products or custom post types and in pages it's called page analytics it will take you to the analytics overview of that specific page where you can select the number of days you'll see the statistics for this gives you a deeper understanding of the seo performance the schema used page speed metrics the keywords the page is currently ranking for and its trends for the set period after that comes the feature that shows the standard settings for the page in ranked math's titles and meta section this means you can alter the metadata read by search engines and facebook for all pages or all posts the name in the quick actions menu depends on the type of page you're on home page regular page or post if home is a static page the plugin will instruct you to handle the seo settings in the page editor's rank math panel specific seo settings will only appear if your home page has your latest blog posts moving on to 404 monitor which gives you access to all the 404 errors on your website if you don't see it go to the plugins dashboard and check if you're using it in the advanced mode if you are you need to activate the 404 monitor module you can fix 404 errors with this information the uri which means uniform resource identifier the amount of hits and what date an hour the url last showed a 404 error the redirections feature has three settings the manage redirections option will take you to rankmath's redirection manager where all the current redirections will be displayed while redirection settings will take you to the redirections tab of rink math's general settings finally redirect this page opens a new entry in the redirections editor where the slug of your current poster page will already be in the source url field the mark this option is only available when you're looking at the quick actions from a post or page custom post types will not present this contrary to other options clicking on any of these options will not take you anywhere inside rank math instead each of these settings acts like a checkbox which can be enabled or disabled rank math will automatically enable some of these based on your global titles and meta settings but you can enable and disable them on a per post per page basis marking as pillar content is usually for posts pillar posts are used to build internal links to the most important content on your website once a post is marked as a pillar post it will appear in the link suggestions of other posts from the same category so you can build internal links to it you also have the option to set that post as a pillar when you're writing it in the editor the second option to mark as no index tells search engines not to index the page since their default behavior is trying to access all of your website's pages and add them to the index it's important to know index low quality posts or pages as well as those that are duplicate or private the last of these three options nofollow is most useful to discourage spam on websites when search engines crawl through the web they use links to go from one website to another the nofollow tag tells bots that none of the links on that page should be followed that means they should ignore the links and not establish any relationship between your website and their destinations a simple example of how useful this can be is user profile pages you can give the users complete freedom to write anything about themselves even add urls and then simply add the nofollow tag to the page their profiles will still be indexed by google but any links on the pages will have no value the last section consists of seven external tools google pagespeed which tests your website's desktop version and the mobile version for speed and performance issues google mobile friendly tool that helps you identify and fix common issues that harm the user experience in mobile devices two options related to the google rich results tool for mobile and desktop devices this lets you test the structured data on your site also known as schema which are chunks of code that give google additional information google cache if it shows google's cached version of your page that page has been indexed you can request that google crawls the page if there's nothing there or request a recall if you've made any major changes though it might take a while for google to update the cached version the facebook debugger tool helps you identify and fix any issues related to sharing your website's content on facebook rankmathpro users also have the rich pins validator tool quite useful for websites with lots of images that use pinterest to drive traffic in this tool will check if your website's data is marked up and eligible for displaying rich pins if it is pinterest will display the page's metadata on the pin itself giving a rich experience to the viewers and encouraging them to click through the pin if it's not this helps you identify the issues to fix them if this tutorial helped you give it a like if you have any questions click on the link in the description to open a free support ticket 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