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Question about Blog Posts on WordPress

by davidbatchelor
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I understand that to rank in the search engines that your blog posts need to have a seo score of at least 90. However mine are fully optimised, but only shows 76%. Does anyone know what to do in this situation?
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    Originally Posted by davidbatchelor View Post

    I understand that to rank in the search engines that your blog posts need to have a seo score of at least 90. However mine are fully optimised, but only shows 76%. Does anyone know what to do in this situation?
    David, there is no absolute on-page score that always ranks for SEO. If there were, everyone would use it, rendering the tactic ineffective.

    Follow the basic guidelines for on-page, but remain flexible and build the page so it's most interesting to the visitor.
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    • Profile picture of the author davidbatchelor
      Originally Posted by PerformanceMan View Post

      David, there is no absolute on-page score that always ranks for SEO. If there were, everyone would use it, rendering the tactic ineffective.

      Follow the basic guidelines for on-page, but remain flexible and build the page so it's most interesting to the visitor.
      Thanks for that.

      Any idea why WP still gives x for things like
      X Title contains up to 66 characters.
      X Description meta tag contains primary keyword.
      X Description meta tag begins with primary keyword.
      X Description meta tag contains up to 160 characters.

      They should all have ticks beside them though.

      Also, do you know on average how long it takes Google to rank a WP blog post?
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  • Profile picture of the author Tiiberiuss
    There is no such thing as SEO score tool.

    Yes there are many but most of them are useless!

    Originally Posted by davidbatchelor View Post

    Thanks for that.

    Any idea why WP still gives x for things like
    X Title contains up to 66 characters.
    X Description meta tag contains primary keyword.
    X Description meta tag begins with primary keyword.
    X Description meta tag contains up to 160 characters.

    They should all have ticks beside them though.

    Also, do you know on average how long it takes Google to rank a WP blog post?

    It seems to me that your plugin is just not working properly.

    OR

    - Your title is longer than 66 characters (make it shorter and you're good)

    - Your description meta tag DOES NOT contain your primary keyword (add it there and you're good)

    - Your description meta tag DOES NOT begin with your primary keyword (add it there and you're good)

    - Your description meta tag IS LONGER than 160 characters (make it shorter and you're good)


    Now, you might be wondering what in the name of Google is Primary Keyword?

    Well, there should be a field for that within the plugin's settings. This is the metric it calculates everything on. Ad your primary keyword there like how to lose weight or whatever.



    Hope this help,
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  • Profile picture of the author ilikepie
    If it looks good and natural why being bothered by some percentage which is based on bullshit?
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    • Profile picture of the author davidbatchelor
      Originally Posted by ilikepie View Post

      If it looks good and natural why being bothered by some percentage which is based on bullshit?
      Because I was lead to believe that on page seo is very important.

      With a WordPress blog, I was told you need the seo scorer to be at least 80%.
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      • Profile picture of the author chandan_dutta
        Originally Posted by davidbatchelor View Post

        Because I was lead to believe that on page seo is very important.

        With a WordPress blog, I was told you need the seo scorer to be at least 80%.
        Onpage SEO is important but it is not at all required to fulfill all those steps. Many of them are not important at all. So, no need to worry even though you are not more than 80%. Just use your keyword in title, naturally in content, in sub heading if possible. You can also use LSI.

        If you have a good site with lot of unique and quality content, your site will rank with less effort and you won't have to worry about 80% score.

        I use SEO plugin by yoast and it's great.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by davidbatchelor View Post

    I understand that to rank in the search engines that your blog posts need to have a seo score of at least 90. However mine are fully optimised, but only shows 76%. Does anyone know what to do in this situation?
    You understand wrong, there's no score.

    Sounds like you've been hanging out at either Moz, or fell for one of the bogus SEO WP plugins.
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  • Profile picture of the author squadron
    Originally Posted by davidbatchelor View Post

    I understand that to rank in the search engines that your blog posts need to have a seo score of at least 90. However mine are fully optimised, but only shows 76%. Does anyone know what to do in this situation?
    Are you referring to the Wordpress Plugin called SEOPressor? It used to be a useful tool 2 years ago, but in my opinion no longer. In fact the footprint it leaves in your page source code may be a red flag.

    To answer your question, the blog post seems fine, I would now start building a few links into that post from relevant pages with decent PageRank.
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    • Profile picture of the author davidbatchelor
      Originally Posted by squadron View Post

      Are you referring to the Wordpress Plugin called SEOPressor? It used to be a useful tool 2 years ago, but in my opinion no longer. In fact the footprint it leaves in your page source code may be a red flag.

      To answer your question, the blog post seems fine, I would now start building a few links into that post from relevant pages with decent PageRank.
      I am referring to SEO Scorer, is that still a good tool to use in WordPress?

      Also how would you suggest I build a few links into that post from relevant pages with decent PageRank?
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  • Profile picture of the author pressreleaseagency
    Originally Posted by davidbatchelor View Post

    I understand that to rank in the search engines that your blog posts need to have a seo score of at least 90. However mine are fully optimised, but only shows 76%. Does anyone know what to do in this situation?
    Wordpress SEO plugin by yoast, is great. I use it only many of my sites.
    You can use it and good things will happy!

    BTW, score is not the most important. User-friendly makes you successful in every google update. forget about meta tags and meta keywords, they are not used by google. forget about keywords density. Put more focus on your customers.
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