Keywords in Yoast
Happy Monday.
I need some clarification on keywords. The title of my latest post on my photography website is "6 Family Photo Clothing Ideas To Spur Your Imagination."The keyword is "family photo clothing ideas."
My question is concerning Yoast. I enter "family photo clothing ideas" as my focus keyword. The problem is, I can't get the SEO optimized (the button won't turn green) unless I enter the entire title: "6 Family Photo Clothing Ideas To Spur Your Imagination."
What's more important - entering just the keyword in the focus keyword area or entering the complete title and optimizing SEO? Hope that makes sense.
Thank you!
Holly
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I wouldn't worry about it. You can still rank on Google page 1 without even entering a focus keyword. The colored lights in Yoast are just recommendations, they have no affect on how you will rank. Google ranks you on your entire content and not from a focus keyword.
Holly, I did a quick search also and found this:
https://kb.yoast.com/kb/warning-the-focus-keyword-does-not-appear-in-the-page-title/
Yoast says not to strive to have all green bullets. Go Figure...
- Glen B
Hi Holly, I also use Yoast SEO and I get this same issue. I don't think it's a problem on your end but rather a problem on Yoasts end.
It seems that unless the Title is exactly the focus keyword that it does not give that credit.
In my opinion as long as the full keyword is in the title as part of it you should be fine. I wouldn't worry about Yoast being green on that one aspect.
Additionally You might want to put in a ticket to yoast to see what they say. That might spur a fix.
- Glen B
Ok thank you. I’ve entered just my keyword before and had no problem. That’s a good idea to contact Yoast. Maybe I’m getting to focused on that darn green dot!
I appreciate you taking the time to comment.
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This happens a lot but I wouldn't worry about it. Basically, Yoast recommends having the keyword at the beginning of the title, as they say, it helps ranking. Whether this is true or not I don't know. So by having the number 6 at the beginning of the title, in Yoasts eyes means your keyword isn't at the very beginning of the post.
Thank you. That’s helpful!