Title: [Plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast]  Shortcodes
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast] Shortcodes

 *  [mackenzie108](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mackenzie108/)
 * (@mackenzie108)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-shortcodes/)
 * Hi,
 * I have a question about how the plugin (or maybe it would be search engines overall)
   read content inside of shortcodes.
 * I have a site with text inside of a tabbed table created with a shortcode. The
   text in the table contains the pages key words. On the General tab for the plugin,
   it shows the focus keyword in the content 5 times, but on the page analysis, 
   the keyword density is 0, and it notes that my body only had 115 words, but there
   are considerably more than that, most would be inside of the shortcode though.
 * Will this be a problem with the search engines, or is this just the way that 
   the plugin reads?
 * Thanks,
    Matt
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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