Well, hello there, Yoast SEO

byTMDavis99

422 followers

9 years ago

So I really had no clue what Yoast SEO was until I installed it in order to be able to add rich pins to Pinterest - here's a blog article I came across about it.

http://sociallysorted.com.au/rich-pins-on-pinteres...

Anyway, I didn't realize one of the side benefits would be that Yoast SEO would point out how terrible my pages are. I say that facetiously, but here I was thinking I was doing all the right things by using Grammarly. Meanwhile, I was overlooking all of the important readability and keyword statistics.

Yoast tells you things like:

• keyword density - how many times your keyword is referenced as a percentage of your page content
• Confirms your meta description contains your keyword
• Makes sure your focus keyword appears in your subtitles
• Assesses the text length and title length

And then, just when you get that all sorted and green lighted, you go over to the readability tab and find a bunch of other things wrong with your page. Yoast is rude, let's face it, but it's all in pursuit of better, searchable, content!

• it evaluates length of text between subheadings
• evaluates usage of transition words
• evaluates length of paragraphs
• evaluates sentence length

And a whole bunch of other stuff I hadn't even thought of.

Huh. I learn something new every day. Definitely a worthwhile plug in as far as I'm concerned! I wonder how Yoast SEO would feel about this blog entry...