Make sure to fill out the settings in Yoast SEO accurately and properly as this would be an extremely crucial factor for getting the first-page ranking that you’ve been curious about.

How to Optimize Yoast SEO on Your Site

Having fully launched Yoast SEO on your site, it’s time to begin using it to build your site SEO and ranking. On the left-hand side menu of your Yoast SEO dashboard, select which of the posts or pages you want to check.

You can select the “All pages” or the “All posts” options if you’re willing to check the SEO score for each of the posts or pages on your site. The SEO scores are simply marked on the right-hand side of the dashboard and they signify whether Google will like to crawl those pages or posts or not.

Note the following signals:

• When you see a red dot, it signifies the worst SEO condition, and Googlebot will not approve that post or page at all.

• When the dot shows an orange color, it signifies that there are little SEO issues to fix on a particular page or post.

• When the color of the dot is grey, it signifies that there's no available SEO information for Yoast to access.

• When you see a green dot, wow, the SEO condition is in its best status and Googlebot will like and approve the particular page or post.

If you ever need a hand with anything going forward, don't hesitate to let me know and I'll be more than happy to help.