After the update, nearly all of my pages and posts showed an AIOSEO score of 0/100 (my static Home page and Blog page being obvious exceptions).
I also noticed that in the analysis (of readability etc.) of my pages, they were reported as having no images or links (for example) when they were fairly image or link rich. I did some online reading of Google guidelines and found that the alt attribute is important for image search optimization and the title attribute may also be helpful.
The alt and title attributes can be set when when you add an image to the WP Media Library and in doing so at that stage in the process, I had probably not done the good job that Google expects.
So I went to edit one of the pages with a 0/100 score and looking specifically at the tags. An attribute such as alt=”Bandname Songtitle Promotion” was changed to the format alt=”bandname-songtitle-promotion” and empty alt=”” attributes were given values using the same format.
But here’s the thing … as soon as I began to edit the first alt attribute, the AIOSEO score instantly shot up to a figure in the 70s or 80s.
Likewise, other media should have title attributes using the same format where possible. For example, a linked video should have title=”band-track-video” in the tag and this is useful in improving the AIOSEO score for pages with videos rather than images.
I am sure this is not all there is to it, but a simple edit to a page can instantly improve the AIOSEO score beyond zero and also removes some error reports in the page analysis. You will still get an SEO title length error though and when you look at this it will tell you to add a title first … even though there is already title.
Hope that might help.
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This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by dub51uk.