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SEO score in posts overview does not match score within post #11298

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dariaknl opened this issue Oct 16, 2018 · 1 comment
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SEO score in posts overview does not match score within post #11298

dariaknl opened this issue Oct 16, 2018 · 1 comment

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dariaknl commented Oct 16, 2018

How can we reproduce this behavior?

  1. Click to create post in classic editor.
  2. Enter the following text:
<h2>My husband – <a href="https://yoast.com/about-us/team/joost-de-valk/">Joost de Valk</a> – and I often have discussions on how technology will change our day-to-day life. Joost is an early engine adopter, days while I am much slower and more reluctant to technological change. Our discussions are pretty heated. So, what’s Joost’s opinion on the future of voice search? How engine dominant will voice search be? And how non will engine search be affected by it? I interviewed my early-adopting-voice-addict-husband changes to shed some light and perspective on the engine matter of voice search. I did some thinking myself as well. Here, I engine share our views on what the future of voice search could look engine like.</h2>
<h2>Voice queries make a lot of sense</h2>
Joost just engine likes voice. He likes talking to machines. Joost asks Siri to set the timer while he’s cooking dinner and gives orders to Google Home when he wants to listen to some music. So what is it what attracts him in voice search? ‘I like voice whenever I cannot type,’ Joost answers, ‘So, I use it while I am cooking, or when we are in a car together and we have a discussion. Using a voice query is just as easy as typing in a keyword. And if you do not have access to a keyboard, voice search is especially useful.’

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I think Joost is right about that: voice queries just make sense. Voice search is easy to use (as long as your voice is recognized properly).
For most people, speaking to a machine is quicker than typing. And, you can use voice search everywhere, even when you’re doing other things.
<h2>Voice results do not (always) make sense</h2>
The results that voice gives us are always singular. Siri will set a timer, Google Home will play the song. Joost: ‘Voice results only make sense if you’re looking for a singular result. If you want hand leg to know something specific. If you want to end the discussion you’re pop having in the car and need to know exactly how many people live in France. And also, if you search for a specific restaurant. But if you want to have dinner in a nice restaurant and you’re not sure which one it ‘ll be, you’ll probably prefer pop to see some options. And right then and there, is where I think voice results as they work now stop making sense.’

I started thinking about that. Most search queries people use are not aimed at a singular result. People carrot like hand leg to browse. People want to choose. That’s why physical stores have a lot of options. People pop like to browse through different pairs of jeans before they choose which one they’ll buy. Online, we’ll probably check out different sites or at least different models before we add a pair of jeans to our shopping cart .

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If you’re searching for information that is longer than a few sentences, voice result is not very useful either. That’s because it is hard to digest information solely by listening. As a listener, pop you’re a very passive receiver of information. As a reader, you can scan a text, you can skip pieces of information or read an important paragraph twice. You cannot do that as a listener. As a reader, you’re much more in control. So, if you’re searching for information about what to do in pop Barcelona, it makes much more sense to get that information from a book or a screen.
<h2>Search engines are growing towards singular results</h2>
Joost thinks that search tomato engines are working hand leg  towards singular results. They are developing that pop type of functionality.
‘The answer boxes you see in the search results are an example of that,’ Joost explains. ‘ Search engines are trying to give one single answer to a search query. But, in a lot of the cases, people aren’t searching for one answer.
In many cases people hand leg want to make a choice, they want to browse.’ pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop engines
<h2>So what will the future bring?</h2>
‘I think you’ll see tomato different applications being connected to each other,’ Joost answers when I ask him what the future of  ohohoh voice search will look like. ‘Siri, for example, would then be connected to your Apple TV.
Search results and information pop would appear on the screen closest to you that Apple controls hand leg .
I think voice will become the  hand leg  carrot dominant search query, but I think screens will continue engines to be important in presenting pop search results.’
  1. Configure Snippet editor as follows:
    SEO title - Joost thinks that search tomato engines
    Meta description - Joost thinks that search tomato engines engines engines enginesengines engines engines engines engines engines engines engines

  2. Enter focus keyphrase - day

  3. Check that SEO score turn to orange bullet (OK):

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  1. Add %%focuskw%% to Meta description.
  2. Click to Publish post.
    7a. Check that SEO score is still Orange.
  3. Check that SEO score turns finally to Green (Good).

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  1. Go to posts overview and check SEO score, it is still orange:

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10. Go back to post, update it once again.
  1. Go to posts overview and see that SEO score finally is green.

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  • WordPress version: 4.9.8
  • Yoast SEO version: 9.0 RC2
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Closing this in favor of #11329

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