Yoast's Readability Analysis runs in real-time and will be giving you feedback while you write. Your goal is to get the green light on your Readability and SEO. This box will appear in the upper right hand-corner while in edit mode. Remember content is king and should be your first priority.
Your goal here is to make your content reader friendly!
Yoast helps you every step of the way by keeping count of the words in your sentences and paragraphs. Yoast also helps to make your content understandable and convincing by helping you to use Transition Words and Passive Voice. Clicking on the eye will highlight the sentences that need to be improved. Not all bullets need to turn green, so please don't stress over this. As long as the majority of your bullets are green you will get the green check-mark for your readability.
Are you having fun yet? I sure do hope so!
Let's move onto Yoast SEO Analysis!
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I've also found SEO Framework https://wordpress.org/plugins/autodescription/ gets better ranking results than even AIOSEO but it's less user-friendly at the moment.
As Joost the owner of Yoast has stated, "no SEO plugin makes more than 10% difference to your results", as Wordpress in itself is now very SEO friendly. Yoast however is actually one of the worst performers in regard to getting you a higher ranking in search engine results.
Yoast is incredibly popular because of the interactive feedback, but this is really nothing more than ticking an automated checklist that you could easily do yourself from a sheet of paper, it has no effect in itself on ranking. In fact, there are far better tools than Yoast for ensuring that your text is formatted and optimised to get the very best search engine results (especially as Yoast have moved many features from the free to the paid version). For example, take a look at a specialist on-page seo tool, Web Text Tool https://app.webtexttool.com/#/register-free
I'd recommend members looking to achieve the highest possible rankings stick with AIOSEO!
I've had many years experience of AIOSEO, Yoast and now SEO Framework, including hands-on helping restore members sites after Yoast's catastrophic 3.0 update wrecked them.
You might not think it important, but before members are encouraged to deviate from core training and ditch AIOSEO in favour of Yoast, they might like to be aware that they are risking getting the highest possible ranking for their content.
I think you might find that for many, the latter is far more important than ease-of-use, especially when there are far better tools than Yoast for on-page SEO, such as Web Text Tool.
I'd also respectfully suggest that you make it clear in your training, that members should use the migration tool if switching from AlOSEO and that they must deactivate it after activating Yoast, as only one SEO plugin should be active at any one time.
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