A look at the features and capabilities of Yoast
Yoast can be considered the best plugin to improve the site’s SEO. So far, many sites have achieved good rankings on Google with the help of the Yoast plugin. As a site administrator, if you want to improve your site’s SEO and achieve a good ranking in search engines, I suggest you follow this article to the end.
What is Yoast, and what is its use?
Yoast SEO plugin is a free plugin that WordPress provides to users and site administrators to get better results in Google and be seen better. But getting the best results with this plugin has a method and mechanism you should be aware of.
This article will comprehensively look at this plugin and how to use it. You should read this article if you are thinking of using this plugin and improving your site’s SEO. Stay with us.
A step-by-step introduction to Yoast
The first step is to install the plugin.
Yoast is full of small and practical tips. Tips that even professional site managers may not have paid much attention to. But these tips will be the key to your success in getting better results on Google. Here we will review this practical plugin step by step.
The first step is to install it. Just log in to the WordPress site, go to the WordPress repository section, and search for Yoast SEO. After finding this plugin, click the “Install Now” option to install the free version.
The good news is that this free version covers many of the site’s needs. With a little research and study, you will learn how to use the features of the professional version and free plugins so that you don’t need the premium version.
The second step is the settings.
Once installed, you will have an option called SEO on the right panel of your site. All menus and site settings are in this section. You can apply your desired settings there. There are many tutorials for SEO settings. Get help from them.
What features and facilities does Yoast have?
The possibility of a preliminary review of texts and contents
Yoast has interesting functionality. One of these features, activated by applying settings, is “Overview of Yoast SEO posts.” You can enable this option from the page settings menu. Once this feature is activated, you will add an option with the same name to the page.
If you enter the name of the content or the keyword you want in this section and press the publish button, you will check that content according to SEO principles and standards. This review will be brief and basic. But it gives you good information.
What is the analysis of Yoast?
Yoast analyzes your text according to SEO standards. You can see the result of this analysis in the “Overview of Yoast SEO Posts” section. The result is expressed with the help of red, green, yellow, and gray colors. The article that has red color does not have good SEO. The yellow indicates average SEO, and the green indicates good SEO content.
Content that does not contain keywords and has not been analyzed will be displayed in gray. You have done the initial analysis. But this is not the end of the story. Getting green or red from this plugin does not mean that your SEO content is excellent or weak because you did this analysis only by relying on the keyword you chose.
In many cases, this word is either not selected correctly or is not entered correctly. To get a great result in Google search, it is better to follow the useful tutorials related to selecting the main keyword or the main keyword. This plugin’s analysis is also displayed in the form of percentage analyses and graphs.
Ability to edit SEO
Yoast SEO is equipped with two editors. You can also enable this option from the “Posts” section. You can use the classic WordPress editor or the Gutenberg editor as you wish. There is no difference between the two in practice. Any change you make in any of them will also change the other one. So it doesn’t matter which of these two editors you use.
Ability to determine and display index posts and contents
Yoast has other features as well. Another one of these features is the ability to display the posts and content of your website. Index content, or the so-called Corner Stone, is the important post of the site. This section shows you important and important content.
But if you want the content or a post to be an important cornerstone post, You can do this. It is enough to go to the editing section of that content, open “index content” in the SEO section, and check the “mark as important content” option.
Yoast SEO sitemap feature
Yoast also has hidden features. One of these features is the sitemap or the SEO site map. In previous versions, it was possible to apply manual settings or even activate and deactivate the SEO sitemap. But because the users’ unfamiliarity with the important principles of the site map led to unfavorable results, this feature has been configured automatically in the new version.
You need to add “sitemap_index.xml” to the end of the site address. In this way, you will see the SEO sitemap. If an error occurs or the sitemap is not displayed, publish content and check the SEO sitemap. You will see that it is active without any problem and can be used.
