Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Many thanks Andrew.

I have just submitted a ticket about this issue as I wonder if you could be right. Will keep you updated.

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your response. Currently the following factors are flagged as not being met:

• Broad keyword use in page title

• Exact keyword used in page title

• Keywords in image alt attribute

• Use keywords in your URL

• Keyword is at beginning of page title

• Optimal use of keywords in H1 tags

• Includes a rel canonical tag

Based on my experience of using this tool for 4 years we would generally receive around a 'C' grade for a secondary keyword which has met all criteria apart from that listed above (used 14 times in the body and once in an H2 for a 2000 word page) - which is what we received when grading the page using the On-Page Grader just last week. Since then, no content has changed within the page and when I graded the page again today we received an 'F' grade.

As I mentioned in the original post, I then added this keyword to my campaigns as 'tracked' and graded this keyword again - it then received a 'C' and outlined the exact same factors I listed above as having not been met. When I then deleted the keyword from my 'tracked keywords' again and graded once more, it went back to being an 'F'.

It seems that the On-Page Grader is only really accurately grading tracked keywords, but I'm unsure as to why?

I use this page all the time to grade my primary and secondary keywords and for four years now have consistently managed to achieve A-C grades for all. Today however, I noticed I am flagging F grades for 50% of the keywords.

I do make a note of the initial grades for all pages (as the majority of the keywords I grade using the tool are NOT added/tracked in MOZ 'campaigns'). To make sure I wasn't going mad I went back and graded some keywords I had achieved A-C grades for just 6 days ago. The changes are as follows:

• keyword 1 initially graded an A - 6 days later is still an A
• keyword 2 initially graded C and is now graded as an F
• keyword 3 initially graded C and now an F
• keyword 4 initially a C grade and now an F
• keyword 5 initially a B grade and has remained a B.

Out of interest I then went and added one of the keywords that is now graded an F (but last week was a C) into the 'Add and manage Page Grades' section and graded once again - it's now grading this as a C. I then removed this keyword from my tracked keywords and graded again using the 'On-Page Grader' tool and ... it's back down to an 'F'.

Please could you shed some light on what's going on? I don't want to track each keyword I grade over time but I do want the parameters for grading to remain the same if I use the 'On-Page Grader' tool - what's changed?

I haven't received any alerts about any changes to the tool so if anyone could shed some light on any changes I would appreciate it.