How to Optimize With Wordpress SEO Plugin YOAST?

[emmamathandmovement]

Hi Everyone,

I am currently using Moz's page optimization format to improve our website's SEO. https://mathandmovement.com/

This is the format, these are all of the areas that we need to improve for each of our website's pages, according to Moz.

include 3 keywords max:

<url>www.mysite.com/my-keyword-phrase</url>

<page title="">2 keywords max <title>Primary Keyword - Secondary Keyword - Brand</title></page>

2 keywords max:

keywords in my headers

2 keywords max:

keywords in my headers


<focus keyword="">1 with YOAST</focus>

We are currently using the free version of YOAST for our SEO. My question to you is this, will our pages still have good SEO if we use appropriate keywords (high monthly volume, below 40 difficulty ranking, High Organic CTR,) and put them in the format above? Or since the free version of YOAST only let's us optimize 1 keyword, will we still rank for the other two/three that we put in our meta and page titles/h1s, h2s, urls, and overall paragraph text?

Please also let us know what we can do to improve our SEO!

Thanks so much,

Emma

[donsilvernail]

Hi Emnma,

Yoast does not do seo for you. It gives guidelines to follow. When you insert a keyword in the keyword slot, the software only matches the seo suggestions based on the keyword. If you want to check 3 keywords. Change the keyword you put in the keyword box.

Those keywords are not added to meta data or anything like that. The upgrade of the plugin gives you a couple extra perks, but all the main stuff is available for free! Being able to add 5 keywords to optimize for allows you to see how your content matches up. You will have multiple keywords that do not get a green light and they shouldn't

The other advice big advice i can give you is do not optimize your content for green lights. If you are trying to optimize for green lights much of your content will not be organic. It will be produced to meet the minimum requirements to get the green lights. Here is an interesting article by yoast on it https://yoast.com/want-green-bullet-wp-seo/

Let me know if you have any further questions.

[Casey_Bryan]

Hi Emma,

I'd highly recommend you do the new free SEO course that the team at Yoast has just released: https://yoast.com/academy/course/free-seo-course-seo-for-beginners/

It'll help you understand both SEO and the plugin a lot better.

In my opinion, the premium plugin is worth getting. Yoast typically has a number of sales on it throughout the year, so you can pick it up a bit cheaper.

Good luck!