How To Migrate From Yoast SEO To Rank Math?

Currently, Rank Math is the leading SEO plugin after Yoast, and it is offering a lot more feature for free that are not available for free in any of the SEO WordPress Plugin. In this article I will help you to shift from Yoast To Rank Math without losing even single traffic.

Once you used the Rank Math properly you can have a massive boost in the traffic, and the best feature that I loved in this plugin is automatic URL redirection and 404 monitoring.

To migrate from Yoast SEO to Rank Math you don’t need any extra importer plugin as Rank Math itself contains its own importer that will help you in importing all the data from Yoast in just a few seconds.

But make sure yoast must be installed when the migration is going on.

How To Shift From Yoast To Rank Math? (Step By Step)

Here we will go through step-by-step tutorial to shift data from Yoast SEO to Rank Math, and I guarantee that you will not lose even single traffic after following this procedure.

Create Rank Math Account

Before you start importing data first of all you have to create an account on Rank Math. Creating Rank Math account is as simple as signing up on any other online website.

• Go to https://rankmath.com/ > Click Sign In

• Sign In Facebook, Google, WordPress or Click Register Now

• After completing Registration process Username and Password will be sent to your email account
• Click on login to recheck if it is incorrect

Install and Activate the Rank Math SEO Plugin

• Go to WordPress Dashboard > Plugins > Add New > Search For “Rank Math”

Connect Rank Math Account With Plugin

• After activating the plugin a new window will open that will ask you to connect plugin with your Rank Math account.

• Click Ok to confirm the connection

• Select Advanced > Start Wizard

Import SEO Settings From Yoast To Rank Math

• Here the import will begin from Yoast SEO
• I will be importing the data of Yoast SEO as well as Redirections plugin
• Select all the options > Click Start Import

• Files and Setting are importing

• All files and settings imported

Do Basic Settings

• Choose Category > Upload Profile Photo > Cover Photo > Click Save and Continue

• Here it will ask you to connect your site’s Google Search Console account, I don’t prefer to allow any third party site to access my search console so here I’m just skipping this process.
• It is used to show your search console data in the WordPress Dashboard itself without going to search console.
• If you want to set it up click “Get Authorization Code” and paste the code available in the appeared box
• Otherwise just click “Save and Continue”

Set Up Sitemap & Optimization

• In the Sitemap section
• Enable Sitemaps > Include Images > Select Post and Pages > Untick Categories > Save and Continue
• Sitemap makes crawels and bots to easily discover the posts and pages available on your site

• Enable Noindex Empty Category and Tag Archives
• Disable Nofollow External Links
• Enable Open External Links In New Tab/Window

Enable 404 + Redirection & Schema

• Click Save and Continue

• Enable 404 Monitor and Redirections > Save and Continue
• This setting will let you know about the broken links available on your site

• Enable Schema Type
• Choose Schema Type for Posts
• Select Article Type
• Choose Schema Type for Pages
• Select Article Type For Pages
• Save and Continue

That’s all about migrating from Yoast SEO to Rank Math.

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Wrap Up

I hope this article would be useful for you to migrate from Yoast SEO to Rank Math, if it helped you in any way then don’t forget to share it with your friends on social media.