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Ken Savage

Rank Math SEO - A FREE powerful and lightweight SEO plugin for WordPress

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😻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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Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
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! ❤️
Alex Panagis
@kensavage @bhanuahluwalia I absolutely love Rank Math! Thank you for creating Rank Math, I can't wait for everything that's planned 💪🏼
Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
@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.
Afrinik
@kensavage @bhanuahluwalia Rank math is a great plugin not only rich in SEO but many other features that a website wants.
Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen
@bhanuahluwalia - congrats. this plugin looks great and i will give it a go. just wondering how you plan on making money on this plugin.
Ankit Banerjee
@kensavage @bhanuahluwalia RankMath is a complete package. Love every bit of it. Appreciate the awesome support team as well.
nick eubanks
This looks fantastic and just in time as I've been personally fed up with Yoast. Thank you!
Ajay Goel
@nick_eubanks I use Yoast too. Just curious -- what are you fed up with? Wondering if I should be fed up too!
Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
@nick_eubanks Thank you so much for leaving a comment, it means a lot to me. I would love to hear your valuable feedback on what you like and dislike about the Rank Math plugin. We can definitely improve upon that. 🙏
Vivek Sancheti
Finally we have some good competitor to Yoast. They did so many blunders recently. Will try on few sites and update back here.
Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
@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.
Ajay Goel
@evivz I've been a longtime user of Yoast, but I just let it run passively in the background. I'm wondering -- what are the recent blunders? I'd be happy to try Rank Math. Just want to know where Yoast is lacking.
Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
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. 😍
Ashish Agrawal

One of the best plugin for SEO I am using ever since

Pros:

Great UI, Excellent extensive features and simple go through guide for newbies

Cons:

No Google News Sitemap Yet

Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
Hi @devildeity Thank you for using the plugin. Sincerely appreciate it. Yes, we have plans to introduce News Sitemap feature down the line. Currently, we are trying to make sure that there are no issues left in the plugin before we start adding new features to it. I hope you agree with that. Thank you again for showing the trust in using our plugin. 🙏
Jalu Kaba X
I will try first. Because not legit review if comment before trying it.
Bhanu Ahluwalia
@jalu_kaba_x Definitely. That's the way to help the entire community. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Suganthan Mohanadasan

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.

Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
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. 🙏
Tom Blackshire 🤦‍♂️
Great alternative to Yoast, who have dropped the ball recently.
Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
@tomblackshire Awesome, Tom! 🥳 Thanks for sharing your experience with Rank Math - this is what motivates us to keep improving, innovating and striving to make Rank Math better every single day...
Donna Cavalier

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

Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
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. 🙏
Almar Hijlkema
@donnacavalier The better or the Best?
Ylia Callan

I’m running this plugin on all my sites and recommend it highly. I first installed it on one of my sites when it was in Beta and since then have progressively transformed all my other sites into the winning formula that RMS can provide. I can see this plugin with a million installs in a matter of time.

Pros:

If you want to get the most out of an SEO plug-in RMS is the one. I was able to delete 6 other plugins which reduces plugin bloat.

Cons:

Maybe it’s not a good option for inexperienced users compared to other alternatives but it’s pretty self explanatory.

Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
Hi @ylia_callan Thank you so much for leaving your feedback mate! We will try to add new video tutorials in the future to help everyone understand the options provided in the plugin. Again, thank you for helping in shaping the plugin for everyone by being one of the valuable Beta users 🙏
Alex Panagis

Couldn't be happier with Rank Math. I am so glad that I found it! :)

Pros:

It's lightweight, fast and user-friendly.

Cons:

None (as far as I am aware of)

Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
Hi @alexjpanagis Thank you for trying the plugin and loving it. I'm really glad to hear that. Yes, the future modules of the plugin will empower every blogger out there to gain more traffic from their already published posts than writing new ones. We are very excited to work on them as we speak. Again, I sincerely appreciate your time for leaving a review and using the plugin. 🙏
Rajesh Advani

Rank Math has resulted in soaring traffic on my website and of course better search engine results. I recommend this plugin to everyone using WordPress.

Pros:

The User Interface and Support - The rapidly growing community of users also ensures that help is within the reach and 24 hours.

Cons:

It's free - How can this amazing peice of software be free?

Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
Thanks Rajesh! I'm so happy to hear that you're loving the Rank Math plugin - and clearly, you're in good company with tons of other users that also love it 🤩
Meed Ubarab U
Fact: the best SEO plugin I have used on a WordPress powered project. I hope to see it transform to a SaaS based model with variations for Shopify, BigCommerce and more platforms.
Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
@ubarab Hi Meed! It's awesome to hear that you're loving Rank Math so much that you want to use it on other SaaS platforms too. We can't say if or when, but who knows? 😉🚀
Bernard K Brown

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!

Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
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...
Kingsley Felix
Bernard do you mind explaining what you mean? And also give examples?
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. Thanks.
Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
@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! :)
Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
@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.
Krishna De
@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.
Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
@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 ♡
Denise Sc
If you are going to try Rank Math is going to be hard that you can find something bad! As for now it all look good! The review that made me think that maybe it was worth it to try it was this one: https://marcodiversi.com/blog/ra... if you are wondering if it's better yoast or rank math you can find more info there and maybe you will able to take a decision and switch to it! Thanks for making this plugin for free!! (keep it free btw)
Sunalini Rana

RankMath plugin helped me remove 4 other plugins I was using on my website to manage different tasks like redirection, Schema etc. Thank you for building this plugin and providing it for free.

Pros:

Great UI and support

Cons:

If Keyword research is added to the plugin that will make it the best plugin available in the market.

Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
Hi @sunalini_rana Thank you for leaving your valuable feedback, it means a lot to us. Certainly, we will see how we can incorporate the keyword research in our plugin in the future. For now, we do have the plans to introduce the keyword tracking feature in the plugin and that will be made available in the coming months. I seek your patience and understanding and appreciate you leaving the review. 🙏
Ryan Melo
I've been using this Plugin since the day of its beta, I was amazed that it is much better tobuse than these other SEO Plugins. I'm getting great results until now. Thanks for this wonderful SEO Plugin.
Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
@ryan_melo Hi Ryan, thanks for being a part of the Rank Math journey since the start! It's awesome to see the community on PH come back together - looking forward to exciting things coming up soon...
Adrián

Rank Match has impressed me, and best of all, it's free. It's much better than Yoast seo.

Pros:

It is the most complete seo wordpress plugin. It is very fast and is optimized for wordpress to load fast.

Cons:

Minor errors, but they are solved with frequent updates.

Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
Hi @adrian117 I really appreciate your feedback. We built Rank Math to be the only SEO plugin a website owner would need. It is a complete package indeed. We are releasing new updates every week (almost) to iron out all the bugs that are usually a norm with a project of this size. It is safe to assume that we are doing okay. Please do keep sharing your feedback. It helps us a lot. 🙏
Miodrag Veljovic (tcp)
Great plugin, and game changer! Yoast was best plugin for years, and they changed almost nothing. After Rank Math was lunched, yoast tried to compete adding new functions. But Rank Math has much much better support, so as my concern, I will keep going with Rank Math from now on. Your move, Yoast! :)
Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
@miodrag_veljovic_tcp_ This is great to hear! We do take support very seriously and will continue to do so in the many years to come - and, it goes without saying that we couldn't be happier to have you on board with us 😅
Adrián
Rank Match is impressive, it's very complete. It has surpassed Yoast SEO in everything. You must download Rank Match now!
Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
@adrian117 We ❤️ you for this! It's absolutely amazing to see so many happy Rank Math users using and loving it...
Tom Rayner

A welcome change from Yoast, which has become more bloated than me on Sunday morning after a night at the rugby, the pub, the curry house. Also, as far as I know, the company hasn't plagiarised the content of well-respected SEOs, nor been associated with sexism across SEO conferences. So that's nice.

Pros:

Full free feature set, lightweight, good onboarding

Cons:

Needs more compatibility with page builder plugins

Bhanu Ahluwalia
Maker
Hi Tom, thanks for your feedback! I'm so glad that you're enjoying the plugin. We'll be sure to keep an eye out for page builder compatibility issues that we aren't aware of over the next few days and weeks to come...