SEO: Bad Check – Can this be removed

  • In the publish box in the top right corner of a page or post when editing, Yoast shows its SEO check. Before it only showed a disc with a color, indicating whether the on page SEO was ok, but now it also has text saying ‘bad’, ‘poor’ and so on.

    This is confusing and upsetting some of our clients who think the SEO on their page is bad because of this message. Especially since often times the SEO check gets things wrong (it doesn’t see keywords in Advanced Custom Fields for instance, just the WP content body input).

    Is there an easy way to remove the text from this SEO check and have it like before, or just to remove it altogether?

    Thank you

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  • Thread Starter Ollie Murphy

    (@omurphy)

    In case anyone has the same problem, my solution was just to hide it via CSS.

    I did this by adding the following to my functions file:

    add_action('admin_head', 'remove_wp_seo_score_title');

function remove_wp_seo_score_title() {
  echo '<style>
    .misc-pub-section .wpseo-score-title {
      display: none;
    }
  </style>';
}

    I’m having a similar problem. My client is upset because her home page is giving a “poor” rating. I think what’s happening is that the home page has no content by itself. The template fills in blocks of posts, slider, sidebar, etc. when the page is rendered. Is my theory right? The things that the plugin reports are bad is that I haven’t used the keywords in the content, etc. … but there IS no content specific to the home page so I don’t think there is any way to get that poor rating higher. But how do I prove this to the client. Is there any way to get a reading on the RENDERED page?

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