Yoast SEO or Quode SEO?

Hi there!

We’re not familiar with Quode SEO. Is it an SEO plugin as well? If it is, we don’t recommend running another SEO plugin alongside ours as it can create conflicts. In some cases, it can cause sitemap problems if both programs are generating a sitemap. There’s also a possibility that some Yoast functionalities won’t work. In addition, having two SEO tools on a site may cause duplicate meta which confuses Google to crawl the correct meta.

hello
Thanks for reply!
Quode is not another pluggin, but its part of WordPress
It’s on page edit, scroll down to the bottom.

I’ve had several supposed SEO’s trying to add meta descriptions etc to my website pages. But nothing has worked
One put descriptions into the Quode section

So i have been trying to understand how the Yoast SEO works. After several weeks, i thought i had sorted it.
I wrote the perfect keyphrases.
Then the meta descriptions
But the SEO title is still confusing….i understand the variables help with larger sites as a template. TITLE is taken from page title, PAGE takes the top text from that page and SITENAME is what u have called the site.
My question is, the meta description i write never comes up in searches. It is always taken from the page text, not my description.
Do i need to delete the PAGE variable in order for google to read my description? I have tried this but it still doesn’t work
So i looked at Yoast SEO, search appearance, content.
The page variable is there still, do i have to delete it from this section in order to have my own M descr text showing up in searches??

Most of my descr are green, so i have done them properly!

…sometimes i have kept the variable of PAGE in the SEO title – and yet, my own added meta description does actually show up in searches as snippets – rather than taking it from my page –

So i can’t see a pattern!

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by realme29.

Thanks for following up with us. You identified multiple queries that you want us to address and we’ll address them in order:

Quode SEO
We can confirm that Quode SEO isn’t part of WordPress itself but most likely part of your currently active theme. We highly recommend you disable the Quode SEO to make sure that you only have the data output by Yoast SEO. It is important to have only a set of SEO data to get consistent results. If you are not familiar with how to disable Quode SEO, you’ll need to reach out to your currently active theme support for further assistance on this.

Why meta description isn’t appearing in search results?
This is a very tricky question and isn’t depend on whether you add the template variable or not. The meta description shows up on search results are fully controlled by Google and Google mostly rewrites everything in the search results nowadays. You can find more information about this here: https://yoast.com/help/my-meta-descriptions-arent-showing-up-in-the-search-result-pages/

Thank you v much for your detailed answer
I will delete what is currently also written in Quode SEO. Even though this text is not appearing anywhere else, there still may be a conflict. I will check quode is disabled.

May i ask
In the Yoast pluggin settings for GA tracking, how do we know which setting to use in the “tracking method” section?
I have a UA blah code at the top under GA tracking ID. But my web person has also just put into the source code somewhere a GA Global site tag. The method turned on at the moment here is for Universal Analytics ( analyticsjs )default.
But should it be Global site tag ( new method )

As there have been many mistakes with this website, it is 2 years old now, is this correct? I would be so grateful to know as can’t get an answer for this anywhere!

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by realme29.

Can i also ask this please

When connecting and verifying WP to link with Search Console etc, i have 2 tags that do this.
I have the HTML googlee file located in the Theme root directory.( i think )
I also have the HTML meta tag in WP Yoast/Webmaster tools.

i have heard one cancels the other out? Is this true? Is it ok to have both or should i delete one of them or does it not make any difference to leave them both there?

Hi @realme29

We aren’t aware of any Yoast SEO setting that would deal with Google Analytics. However, if you want to add your website to Google Search Console, there is an option where the Yoast SEO plugin will output an HTML meta tag in the page source to verify your site with GSC.

You can learn more about it here – https://yoast.com/add-website-to-google-search-console/

You can view the page source, and it should only be that single meta tag (“google-site-verification”) that should output.

I see what you mean.

I do have the HTML meta tag connected with SC already. The code when added in Yoast webmasters was reduced, none of the initial < parts are there…it starts with rg-3 and ends with EI. So hope this is correct?

But we have also added a global site tag taken from Google Analytics and put into a GA pluggin in WPress. So connected to GA this way. This is what i was refering to in the above post

Do we need both – both meta tag going to SC and global site tag going to GA?

Thank you for any help…have been trying to unravel and understand this for over a year now!

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by realme29.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by realme29.

Hi @realme29

The HTML meta tag outputted by the Yoast SEO plugin relates to verifying your website with Google Search Console, which has different functions from Google Analytics.

The other meta tag you’re referring to from another plugin seems to be with Google Analytics, so we suspect it’s a different sort of verification tag specific to GA.

Best of luck in further optimizing your site!

Thank you Michael

I wanted to confirm that the GA plugin with a UA code

AND i also have a GA Global site tag in source code

Both are connected to GA

Assume this is ok

Cheers!!

Hey,

Yes, the code for Google Analytics should be separate from the HTML meta tag (output by our plugin) to verify your site in Google Search Console, and it’s fine to have both tags, as they’re both used for different things.

We’ll be setting this to resolved. Have a good one!