@spaceboundgames We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue on your site.
The Yoast SEO plugin will only recognize links contained in the standard editor area. If you placed the links in your menubar, sidebar or footer, the plugin may not be able to recognize them.
By default, the Yoast plugin only analyses the default WordPress content areas. It does not recognize content that is outside of the main content box of a page or post. If you’re using custom fields or other plugin/theme content boxes, widgets, including page builders and visual composers, Yoast may not be able to recognize that.
There are a few cases where a link might not be recognized:
? Only links from inside the WordPress post editor are recognized. This means that links from navigational bars, menus, sidebars or footers are not recognized. If you’re using custom fields or other plugin/theme content boxes, widgets, including page builders and visual composers, Yoast may not be able to recognize that.
? Links need to be in absolute form. This means that links need to include the full domain. For example, https://www.example.com/page-a is an absolute link, while /page-a/ is a relative link.
However, this doesn’t mean though that Google won’t be able to crawl them. Google will still crawl them it’s just that our plugin isn’t capable of analyzing them.
