Franklin Hattchet
Senior Member
- Feb 10, 2015
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I'm just going to get right to it... Yoast is completely crap and you shouldn't be using it to determine your final keyword density. I say this because I've been doing a lot of site audits for people recently and Jesus christ I've seen some high density, complete website killers that google will bitch slap us for. It's not our fault though, Yoast can only calculate what's in the <body> tag.. only just.
Most people would already know this and some will tell me I don't know what I'm talking about so I'll just go through it with some images.
First let's looks at the final Yoast density for one of my niche websites pages.
Now let's look at the real density.
Massive difference. Now let's look at the final Page density. Including page titles and whatever else it picks up on that page like SEO titles etc.
So we have Yoast telling us the body density is 0.66%, But really It's 3.0%. Then we have a total of 4.4% because Yoast doesn't calculate titles etc.
Anyhow, if you're serious about ranking and on-page SEO then I suggest finding a good website audit program or pay someone to do it. Can you imagine the real density of the pages people optimise to 2.0%+ with Yoast.... The real numbers are cringe worthy. I can't speak for any other plugin because I haven't used them, I just use Yoast as a guideline while typing.
Edit: Can't even spell the title of this thread correctly :lmao:Them beers getting to me. Ignore the thumbnail at the bottom, I'm testing things. Uploaded by mistake.
Most people would already know this and some will tell me I don't know what I'm talking about so I'll just go through it with some images.
First let's looks at the final Yoast density for one of my niche websites pages.
Now let's look at the real density.
Massive difference. Now let's look at the final Page density. Including page titles and whatever else it picks up on that page like SEO titles etc.
So we have Yoast telling us the body density is 0.66%, But really It's 3.0%. Then we have a total of 4.4% because Yoast doesn't calculate titles etc.
Anyhow, if you're serious about ranking and on-page SEO then I suggest finding a good website audit program or pay someone to do it. Can you imagine the real density of the pages people optimise to 2.0%+ with Yoast.... The real numbers are cringe worthy. I can't speak for any other plugin because I haven't used them, I just use Yoast as a guideline while typing.
Edit: Can't even spell the title of this thread correctly :lmao:Them beers getting to me. Ignore the thumbnail at the bottom, I'm testing things. Uploaded by mistake.
