Yoast Plugin and Grammarly
I have been sidetracked lately after signing-up with the Grammarly grammar editor and installing the Yoast SEO plugin on my WA WordPress site. I find that the free Yoast plugin really helps with getting post and page content grammatically correct and for fine-tuning the SEO.
After installing the Yoast plugin, I was compelled to edit the three pages and the single post that I had uploaded to space-science.org. That's because Yoast found that my content was simply 'not up to scratch' as far as SEO and Readability is concerned.
Apparently, that's crucial to get right.
Thank goodness I only had a small number of pages and posts to edit! If I were to install the Yoast plugin much later on - in month from now, say - the amount of editing would probably take a very long time.
So, if you're going to install the Yoast plugin, do it as early as possible. Don't leave it too late.
As for signing up for the Grammarly Chrome extension, well I must say that it is impressive! Actually, I installed it because I find it difficult to limit the number of sentences in my content that use the passive voice. Grammarly is supposed to help with this.
According to Yoast, we must limit the number of sentences using the passive voice in our content to 10 percent. I write reviews on astronomical instruments and write content that's scientific in nature, so I tend to use the passive voice. The active voice is what readers prefer to read because it doesn't bore them.
Unfortunately, the free Grammarly Chrome extension is limited, and won't help to sort out passive voice problems. An expensive yearly fee is required to do that. Well, I'm not going to do that until I start making affiliate commissions. They can go and get lost! At least the Yoast plugin tells me where my writing problems are in my content.
Whether all this will lead to better rankings under particular keywords in the SERPs will have to be seen.
All this messing about with add-ons is why I have been sidetracked and haven't been active on WA these past few days. Consequently my activity rank on WA unsurprisingly rose.
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Hello Vic, thanks for the advice. Will check out Yoast. I have read a lot about it from other community members but have not looked at it yet.
I feel that the Yoast plugin needs getting used to. I'm still a bit puzzled about the 'passive voice' rule. I write technical reviews, which use the passive rather than the active voice. It gets a bit frustrating at times.
It gets more and more difficult as the lessons tell us to do this, do that, and the other. Commenting and Gravatar are not up my street.
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Glad you like it have a great day
Cheers! It's not the easiest plugin to get used to. The 'passive voice' rule is difficult to get right when writing technical reviews.