Hi,
I have not written a blog post in a while but when I did again, yoast did not recognise anything on the page. Is there a setting i overlooked or a a recent update change ?
This is the post
Many thanks
Charles
Hi there,
Thanks for writing in.
It’s Yoast limitation, it only analyzes the raw content of the editor instead of the processed live page. Example, if you add something like this in your editor [image] then Yoast will ignore it, it’s not an image after all as it only recognizes the <img> element for images. The [image] element is only converted to <img> in the front (live page) through Wordpress do_shortcode() functionality.
The question is, do search engine crawl and analyze your site’s raw content? It can’t, it will analyze what was served on your page. Hence, Yoast analysis is not that accurate, it should analyze what’s visible from search engines.
Thanks!
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I’m sure Google can read the served page but Yoast is very necessary for me as a guide to optimise the page, and at the moment it cannot read the content in the short codes.
This happened after the cornerstone update, my other posts were fine. Below short codes raw content with no’ content’ to read from this particular post:
[cs_content][cs_element_section _id=“1”][cs_element_row _id=“2”][cs_element_column _id=“3”][cs_element_text _id=“4”][/cs_element_column][/cs_element_row][/cs_element_section][cs_element_section _id=“10”][cs_element_row _id=“11”][cs_element_column _id=“12”][cs_element_text _id=“13”][/cs_element_column][/cs_element_row][/cs_element_section][cs_element_section _id=“19”][cs_element_row _id=“20”][cs_element_column _id=“21”][cs_element_text _id=“22”][/cs_element_column][/cs_element_row][/cs_element_section][cs_element_section _id=“28”]
If this is fixed in a future update im more than willing to wait, as i know google will read my page but Yoast is important to me. Please let me know ?
Charles
Hi there,
Shortcode is part of Wordpress standard, Yoast should read its output and not the raw content. You should contact the Yoast author to see if this is something they can fix.
All SEO tools revolve in the standard of Search Engines and its rules. If it’s going to analyze what it wants to see then perhaps it only covers specific search engines? But I don’t see any search engines that require and crawl the internals of your sites. Shortcodes are part of the internals in which not visible in the front. There is nothing to fix on cornerstone end, it’s Yoast limitation and if they dont want to analyze the site the way how the search engine sees it, then it’s not an accurate tool.
Thanks!
@charlesh77 - consider using an alternative plugin like the SEO Framework plugin. I believe that one will help parse the content on your pages better.
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Thanks for the input Will!
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