MIssing Yoast SEO Meta Box

  • Resolved hightechbranding

    (@hightechbranding)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    Today i woke up and found that all my keywords are missing from every page after i spent many many hours working on SEO just days ago. I have checked my page source and there are no keywords listed at all on any page.
    I have spent 5 hours trying to make the SEO Meta Box appear but i have found no way to do it. Something has changed and i have no idea what is going on or why i can not see the Keyword Meta Box. Some of the SEO tools online are throwing errors also saying i have no keywords. Did something change the last day or two ?
    Is anyone else having this issue? I use this plugin on many sites and would like to know if there is an issue going on with the meta keywords, if this is the case this will cost months of work and most likely cause a loss of many clients, as many seo companies will point this out to try and sell their services and undercut you. Any idea’s?

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  • Plugin Support Michael Tiña

    (@mikes41720)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    If you meant meta keywords, then this feature was removed in the latest version of Yoast SEO. You can read more about it here — https://yoast.com/yoast-seo-6-3/

    If you are having issues with the Yoast SEO meta box and the focus keyword not appearing, could you please check on the following options:

    • There is an option to turn on/off the readability and keyword analysis. Can you please check whether they are enabled for you? You can find this on the left menu under SEO > Dashboard > Features?
    • Can you please confirm that the SEO and Readability are enabled on the posts? You can check this by going to your WordPress dashboard, and then going to SEO > Titles and Metas > Post Type and seeing that the Yoast SEO Meta box says “show”?
    • ​Additionally, please check that your admin hasn’t disabled the SEO and Readability analysis for your user/s. Please go to your WordPress dashboard, and then navigate to Users > All Users > Edit > Yoast SEO Settings and seeing that the Disable SEO & Readability analysis isn’t ticked?
    • Check if Yoast SEO is ticked in Screen Options
    Thread Starter hightechbranding

    (@hightechbranding)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    That is very sad that you removed this feature as it is used for SEO in some ways. We use the keywords in our content for listings on page and insert the keywords via php, much like someone would use a tag on a post. It is very useful and helps us add keywords into content. You have to consider that many SEO companies will use the fact that a site does not have keywords to gain clients and discredit the seo that you do. And yes some major SEO still use keywords as a selling point!!! I have researched and found https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html
    Though many years they say they dont use them, we still see a use for them for as tags in out content. We really hope you bring this feature back!

    turquaze

    (@turquaze)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    @hightechbranding

    I agree with you

    turquaze

    (@turquaze)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Also, Yoast Seo team add it as an option for those who want to use it.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by turquaze.
    Jerlyn

    (@jerparx)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    As already answered in this post, we won’t be adding the meta keywords back. Yahoo and Bing also don’t use them, so it’s much better to focus on great content and do some keyword research instead of using the meta keywords.

    If you really want to bring back the meta keywords,since the meta keywords were left in the database(for now), reverting to the previous version (6.2) will bring them back.

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