[creatorofstuffParticipant]

Hi – I’ve seen a lot of threads on the forum about this but haven’t found a solution.

I’m finally getting around to optimizing my site better for SEO, and am revisiting this problem that has persisted ever since I installed X (which I generally love, by the way).

My Yoast SEO score for this page https://sassypantsdesign.com/funny-dog-greeting-cards-shop/ includes the following (false) statements:

1.) No images appear in this page, consider adding some as appropriate.
2.) No links appear in this page, consider adding some as appropriate.

You can see that there is an image at the very beginning of the page. Also, at the bottom, after the grid, there is a button with a link to another page. Does Yoast not see links if they are in buttons? And why does it not see my image?

Last question: What about all those images that are in my Essential Grid? Are those also not seen? That seems unfortunate, if it’s the case.

Can you shed some light on these issues? Thank you!

P.S. I’m completely up-to-date (as of this writing) with WordPress, X, Cornerstone, and everything else.

[Rue NelModerator]

Hello There,

Thanks for writing in!

There is some incompatibility issue with Cornerstone and Yoast plugin. You can read more about this on this topic: https://community.theme.co/forums/topic/yoast-seo-doesnt-recognize-images-heading-tags-on-pages-made-with-cornerstone/#post-619307

Regrading the images in your post, I would recommend that you review Yoast suggestion on how to properly use images in a post. You can check it here: https://yoast.com/image-seo/

[creatorofstuffParticipant]

Hi – thanks for a swift reply.

Regarding the link you sent about the incompatibility issue with Cornerstone and Yoast, I had already seen that article. Since it is over a year old, I figured there must be new information, because in the article Themeco says, “This compatibility issue has already been forwarded to our developers and we’re currently looking into it.”

With all due respect, if you were looking into something over a year ago, and haven’t resolved it yet, that tells me it is not much of a priority. (Either that or you can’t figure it out, but X and Cornerstone are so great in so many ways, I can’t imagine that is the case.) But the way it currently works makes it difficult to know what is really happening with your SEO when Yoast is telling you you have no images on your page.

Thanks for the post on using images. I am pretty sure I’ve followed it pretty well already (except for having a caption).

Can you tell me what the current status is of your developers “looking into this issue”?

Thank you!

Finally, did your answer above include the problem of Yoast seeing no links on the page? That wasn’t clear to me.

[RadModerator]

Hi there,

It’s not a bug or incompatibility. It’s just that newer version of Yoast SEO are now limited to editor content while analyzing it.

In short, it doesn’t analyze the live page, it only analyzes what’s added to the editor. Example, let’s say this is added by cornerstone.

[x_image link="true" src="324" href="#"]

Since it analyzes it AS IS, then YOAST is actually correct since there are no <img> tag, nor <a></a>. If it will analyze the live page where all shortcodes are executed, then it will display like this ( where both link and image exist ).

<a href="#" class="x-img"><img src="http://" /></a>

You can confirm this by creating a dummy page, then type in ( <img> or <a></a> ) on the editor while observing the SEO section. You’ll notice that it only analyze what you type, but not the actual page rendered on the live page.

I don’t see any search engine analyzes a site based on editor’s content, it doesn’t even have the capability to check the backend. It crawls what’s on the live page.

We’re open to all kind of improvement, but for the solution to this issue requires participation from both side. Hence, we can’t really guarantee it.

Thanks!

[creatorofstuffParticipant]

Ok, thank you for explaining that. From now on, I’ll assume that my images and links are searchable and found, and any low score I receive from Yoast regarding those two things is to be disregarded. 🙂

[Rue NelModerator]

You’re most welcome!
If you need anything else we can help you with, don’t hesitate to open another thread.

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