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#1

Site https://verticalchiroredding.com

I’ve taken a major hit on SEO with the PRO theme. Although my content is the same, it turns out the most widely used SEO plugin, Yoast SEO, cannot detect text on my pages!!! - because of this, I can only conclude that it’s confusing Google as well.

Here’s what I discovered…

It seems the new elements are invisible to Yoast, and the classic elements are visible. I had to test this to find out. Anything using the new Headline or Text elements becomes invisible!

PLEASE HELP!!! I watched a wave from Google come through and I dropped in all of my rankings from #1 to 5-10. Please address this fast. I look forward to your response. In the mean time I’m going to change over all of my pages to classic elements, which is going to take me days.

#2

Hello @nlwebdesign,

Thanks for writing in! Our developers were already made aware of this issue. They are already making a fix for this issue. Please watch out when we roll out our next release update cycle soon.

Thank you for your understanding.

#3

I appreciate the reply. I would like an update on when that will be. I’ve seen other posts about the same issue from weeks ago. I cannot go weeks with this being the case, it’s already affected my clients negatively.

When is the release going to be?

#4

Hi,

Sorry, we could not provide an ETA as of the moment but rest assured this does not have an impact on your site SEO. Everything outputs correctly on the front end. The only problem is that Yoast Analyzer is scanning the content from the backend with all the shortcodes still present, so it can’t properly access the content of our V2 elements.

As stated our web developers are already aware of this issue and will be fix soon.

Thanks

#5

“rest assured this does not have an impact on your site SEO”

How can you qualify this statement? ALL of my PRO sites have experienced significant hits to their ranking over the last weeks. Coincidence?

I’m not asking that to be rude. I am genuinely wondering how you can say it has NO impact on my SEO when the #1 SEO plugin cannot see my content? Also, for the level of your company, and at $79 per license, not having an ETA on an issue like this is not acceptable.

#6

Hey @nlwebdesign,

We understand your concern and your reaction but Paul’s response is correct. Yoast SEO only analyzes WordPress content and it does not read the frontend like Google or any website crawler does. Yoast SEO is not a crawler. It can’t read your the content of your widgets nor it can see your logo and menus. It only provides insights for your post or page content.

Also, no one can conclude that the drop in your search engine rankings was caused by our theme because no knows Google’s ranking algorithm including content analyzers like Yoast SEO. Google only provides best practices which our theme follows. By follow, I’m referring to frontend code and not the backend which Google can’t see. The backend WordPress content which in Cornerstone’s case, is what Yoast SEO sees but can’t read. Please note that they are different.

Also, SEO has 2 facets as far as I know. They are On-Page and Off-Page. A theme only touches a part of On-Page SEO.

In case you’re not aware, the best thing that you can do is look at the data of Google’s Search Console. That will give you at least an idea of what Google is detecting. This however is not covered by our support. Please consult with an SEO expert to assist you with this.

By the way, Ruenel and Paul was referring to a bug in Cornerstone where Yoast SEO’s content analyzer does not work well if you have a combination of Classic and V2 (non-Classic) elements in a page. Please try using All Classic or All V2 only. The issue could be in Yoast SEO’s API. We are not sure about this yet.

With that said, please don’t treat Ruenel’s reply as a guarantee. Surely, our developers are working on bugs and improvements. But, we can’t provide an ETA nor guarantee it would be fixed in the next release. I understand that it seems not acceptable but there might be technical barriers that both sides are facing.

Thank you for understanding.

#7

Thank you for the professional reply. I look forward to the next release.
Keep up the good work guys.

#8

You’re welcome. I forgot to add also that there are users who have reported that they rank well in Google. It might not be because of the theme though because Google nowadays ranks sites based on the site’s content and offsite efforts.

This just means that our theme is not a hindrance for good rankings.:slight_smile:

#9

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