Hello Christoskomp,
Thanks for reaching out regarding your site’s SEO. You mentioned that the Yoast SEO plugin is not detecting the contents of your custom taxonomy.
To make the issue clearer, is the description and bottom description fields contents added via the default WordPress content editor, Elementor page builder or via custom fields?
We look forward to hearing from you.
The content of those fields is added via the default WordPress editor. Also I should add, in another of our sites (couponlike.co.uk), only the description is read. There again, all field contents are added via the default WordPress editor.
@christoskomp
You mentioned that It only reads the short description field and not the description and bottom description fields.. Could you please provide us with screenshots that highlight the issue you are experiencing. You can use any image sharing service like https://pasteboard.co/, https://snag.gy/, https://imgur.com/, https://snipboard.io/, or even upload the screenshot to your own website. Once you upload it an image sharing service, please share the link to the image here.
How stores’ readability score appears in the backend
The readability bullet is grey since yoast does not recognize the text in the “short description” and “bottom description” boxes.
Thalia store page
Short and bottom description fields for Thalia store
Here there is text in both “short description” and “bottom description” boxes. In the “description”, which is read by Yoast there is no text. That’s why the readability score is in grey color and it seems that no text has been written. In addition, the SEO score section presents misleading results since its analysis is based on NO text.
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christoskomp.
@christoskomp
Upon checking the provided screenshot and more specifically this screenshot, shows that the description fields being created are called as custom fields via some other approach.
The Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin only analyzes the default WordPress content areas like the title, URL and the main WordPress content editor. If you are adding your content through other plugin or theme content boxes, Yoast SEO might not be able to detect it by default.
We provide plugin and theme developers with an API that they can use to pass their content to our page analysis. So, if you are using a plugin or theme that doesn’t send their content to our page analysis, please reach out to the developer and ask them about adding the functionality to their code. This KB article will help them with the implementation – Can I add data to the page analysis?
With that being said, while our plugin isn’t able to detect all your text blocks and shows an incorrect analysis report, this doesn’t mean that search engines won’t be able to parse them. Our content analysis is just to validate the content of your website and doesn’t really affect how search engines crawl and index your site.
Thank you for the clarification. I will be contacting the theme’s support.
