“Keyphrase in SEO title” problem

Hey @psychedeliczen,

Thank you for using Yoast SEO and for reaching out!

We understand that our plugin gives you feedback about your keyphrase not (completely) being in your title, despite the fact that it is.

We are currently aware of a bug when snippet variables are used in the title field – resulting in incorrect negative feedback about your keyphrase not being in it. The issue is still open but is in our queue to be picked up. Unfortunately, we can’t give any ETA on this being fixed.

As a temporary workaround, you could manually add your title in our SEO title field and not use the snippet variables when you write new posts.

I have the same problem on all my old posts. This is insanity.

“We are currently aware of a bug when snippet variables are used in the title field – resulting in incorrect negative feedback about your keyphrase not being in it.”

I do not know what “snippet variables” are, but I don’t use any special codes or anything in my title field. I just type the words as plain text.

Hey @psychedeliczen,

My apologies for not explaining the term. Those “snippet variables” are those defaults in the SEO title and description fields. More information about this can be read here: https://yoast.com/snippet-variables/.

Do you have the title variable in the seo title field? If you were to copy your post title in the field, does the feedback change and reflect correctly?

I do have the Title variable in the Seo title field. In the SEO Title field on the “Search Appearance – Yoast SEO” page under “Content Types” I have four purple bubbles that have the following:

Title Page Separator Site Title

These also appear in each post under “Yoast SEO” > “Site Title”

As for the SEO title section on the actual individual post, if I type the focus keyphrase into the Seo Title section for the Post, then, yes, the warning goes away.

Hey @psychedeliczen,

Thank you for your reply.

That’s exactly what the bug is, our developers are aware and are working on fixing this in one of our future versions. I don’t have any ETA, unfortunately, the workaround, for now, is to a) put the title manually in the SEO title field so we do see it or b) if you know that the title has the focus keyphrase, ignore the false positive feedback for now.

Thank you for your patience.

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