key phrases

@mushlih

Yoast SEO plugin doesn’t output any focus keyphrase in the page source code on the front end part. So, nobody can see the exact focus keyphrase that you are targeting to get rank for a page.

Focus keyphrases are only specific to the Yoast SEO plugin that uses for providing content analysis reports. Focus keyphrases are not meta keywords that were used to show in the page source but are no longer available.

Then, how do I arrange so that if someone uses the key phrase I wrote so that he finds my post on Google?

@mushlih

In order to be able to discover your posts on Google, first, you should optimize your content against the focus keyphrases by following this guide. In our view, there are at least three things you should do to determine which keywords or keyphrases you should optimize your blog posts for:

1. Find a focus keyword people search for
2. Research the search volume
3. Google your keyphrase

Above things are discussed in detail in this article.

There are other factors beside choosing the focus keyphrase for your posts to rank on Google. Please refer to this?definitive guide?and consider the following:

• Submit your website to the Google search console. Please submit your website to the Google search console first by following the steps given in this guide.
• Submit the sitemap to the Google search console. Please submit your sitemap to your Google search console by following the steps given in this guide.
• Optimize your content against the focus keyphrases by following this guide.
• Write the perfect SEO title for your posts and pages by following the steps given in this guide.
• Write clean and meaningful meta description of your pages and posts by following the steps given in this guide.
• Optimize the content by using the advanced content analysis feature provided by the Yoast SEO plugin by following the steps given in this guide.

So, is the “key phrase” section only for post SEO analysis and won’t appear in the page source?

Then how can Google know that I am using the keyword “this” in my posts if Google can’t find it in the source page?

Hi @mushlih,

Correct, the Yoast content analysis under the focus keyphrase section gives you advice for how you can edit and improve your text if someone searches for the focus keyphrase.

Yoast SEO doesn’t need to add the focus keyphrases to the page source in order for Google to find it because you’re expected to include your focus keyphrase as you write your text, titles, and descriptions.

There used to be a meta keywords feature, but this was removed because Google and other search engines no longer use meta keywords.

Do all SEO plugins not add keywords in the source code? or just your plugins don’t put that?
Also, if I buy your premium plugin, what’s the point if I write lots of key phrases?
thank you

I believe none of the SEO plugins would output focus keyphrases/keywords in the source code as there are no SEO values to output those. As also mentioned earlier search engines no longer consider those meta keywords outputted in the source code for ranking purposes.

In the free version, you can only set 1 focus keyword or keyphrase. That means you’ll have to choose what exactly to optimize for. In Yoast SEO Premium, you have the option to add more related keywords. This means, that when you want to optimize for “pen”, you can also optimize for “paper” in the same text. You will be able to reach a broader audience because of it. That means, Yoast SEO Premium allows you to optimize a page/post for up to five focus keyphrases, and also allows you to add synonyms with the related keyphrase and word forms feature. You can read more about this here: https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/synonyms-related-word-forms-premium/

Fine, thank you very much for the explanation
Since the key phrases don’t appear in the page source code, can I use the key phrases as a tag? because tags can be indexed by google, then will google be able to recognize that my post contains a “best WordPress theme for the blog” because I use the “WordPress blog theme” tag that serves as a key phrase?

While Tags are not a critical ranking factor, Tags acts like keywords that best describe the content of your post. It’s still smart to follow best practices and use them to keep your website neatly organized. Please read this article for more info https://yoast.com/taxonomy-seo-categories-tags/

Tagging posts properly for users and SEO

Taxonomy SEO: How to optimize your categories and tags for Google

If so, is it good if I create multiple tags in 1 post as a key phrase, but 1 tag is only for 1 post? because it’s for the key phrase, and not for grouping content
Is it good like that?

While you can create multiple tags for a single post, it won’t be a good idea to use the focus keyphrase as the name of the tags as the relevant tags page then rank before the page you want to rank for.

That said, depending on your needs, you may or may not use multiple tags or even use the keyphrase as the tags name. We are unable to confirm exactly how you’d organize your website and optimize it for search engines.

Well, I can conclude that tag pages better be filled with lots of posts, and tags are used to group content, and not as key phrases, am I right?
So what’s the difference between tags and categories, isn’t that both grouping posts?
Thank you very much for the explanation

Hi,

WordPress uses so-called taxonomies to group content. The word ‘taxonomy’ is basically a fancy term for a group of things (website pages, in this case) that have something in common. WordPress has two default taxonomies:

• categories
• tags

The difference between a category and a tag mostly has to do with structure. Categories are hierarchical: you can have subcategories and even sub-subcategories. Tags, however, don’t have that hierarchy.

WordPress automatically generates a page for each category or tag you create. We call these pages archive pages because that’s what they do: they archive posts (or products) that have something in common. Besides categories and tags, there are also other types of archive pages. For example, WordPress can archive pages based on post date and post author. You can even create a custom taxonomy or use a plugin that creates one.

You can learn more about it here — https://yoast.com/tags-and-categories-difference/

Ok, thank you very much