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  • November 7, 2014 at 2:48 pm #347728
    paul_dekart

    Hi,
    it seems, Yoast SEO plugin has problems with indexing special headings. It does not see H1 or H2 tags within special headings elements in the page content.
    If I do a normal H1 or H2 tags within text block, anything works fine.

    But, I would like to use the special headings :)
    Any idea?

    Regards
    Paul

    November 8, 2014 at 1:18 pm #348139
    Ismael

    Hi Paul!

    Thank you for the using Enfold.

    Are you referring to the warning on the page analysis tab? Something like:

    No subheading tags (like an H2) appear in the copy

    Can you please give us a link to the actual page with this issue? We might need the login credentials to check the page. I’ll ask Kriesi to take a look. For now, please use the text block.

    Cheers!
    Ismael

    November 8, 2014 at 5:52 pm #348176
    paul_dekart
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    November 11, 2014 at 5:58 am #349204
    Kriesi

    Hey!

    Unfortunately this is a limitation of the yoast seo plugin. since these are all basically shortcodes and the heading is stored as a shortcode attribute the plugin cant see it. I am currently trying to improve the compatibility of the builder with the seo plugin so future updates should enhance the experience. Please note that this does not have any impact on what a search engine can see in your frontend, google and others will see the h2 tags :)

    Best regards,
    Kriesi

    November 11, 2014 at 6:20 am #349207
    sdbroker

    Hi Kriesi,

    By looking the site’s keywords that Google sees at the Google webmasters tools I can clearly see that Google does not also see the keywords within the theme’s special headings. Last time I checked there for a specific keyword 2-3 months ago I could see it 6 times, the same times as I could also see it at the Yoast’s plugin. Now both Yoast and Google webmasters see it only 2 times… I have that keyword in 4 of my special headings and 2 times within a text block in the content. So I guess both Google and Yoast only see the 2 in the content.

    Do you have an estimated date when all those SEO issues will be completed in the upcoming 3.0.3 version?

    Thank you,
    George

    November 11, 2014 at 1:12 pm #349332
    Kriesi

    Hey!

    That sounds very weird, especially since it works perfectly fine for me. Other than the yoast seo plugin google checks the generated source code of the page and not the shortcodes that are put into the editor. If your source code contains the keyword several times google will find it.

    Mind linking to the page in question and the keyword we are talking about?

    November 11, 2014 at 9:15 pm #349671
    sdbroker

    Hi Kriesi,

    Thanks for the reply! You are correct… My bad. I just checked on the Google Structured Data Testing Tool and it actually sees the titles created with the Special Heading element. To my surprise now it no longer sees the headings (correctly marked with itemprop=headline”) within the Accordion Slider element when previously they would appear in the Structured Testing Tool… but that’s another issue that has nothing to do with the Special Heading element.

    I also did some research this morning and I found out that with the recent SE updates Webmaster Tools now only counts keywords within the content in a paragraph, not those found in headings which explains the drop in the number of keywords that I now see in GWT.

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