Yoast hates if keyword in title has punctuation appended to it

  • Resolved JJ

    (@jimmyj352)


    3 years, 10 months ago

    I’ve had this happen before but I thought I’d put it out there to see if this might be considered a bug. Whenever I have a keyphrase in my title that’s followed by punctuation, Yoast gives the message:

    Keyphrase in title: Not all the words from your keyphrase “perpetual tourist” appear in the SEO title. For the best SEO results write the exact match of your keyphrase in the SEO title, and put the keyphrase at the beginning of the title.

    If I put a space between the keyphrase and the punctuation, I go back to the green light.

    For instance, the post I’m working on is titled “Being a Perpetual Tourist… the Pros and Cons” with the words “perpetual tourist” being the keyphrase. Yoast seems to dislike the ellipses after the keyphrase even though I think Google would be just fine with that.

    Any thoughts? I hate having a red light in Yoast!:-P

    Thanks so much!

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  • Hi @jimmyj352,

    Strange. Using the same title and focus keyphrase on a test site, we didn’t see a warning about the keyphrase in the title. The warning appeared with the ellipsis character (……), but not when using dot-dot-dot (…).

    Thank you for bringing this up. Based on the information you provided, this seems like a bug. We’re actively using the bug tracking on our GitHub repository so your best next step would be to create a new issue for our developers at?https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/new.

    You will need an account to create a new issue. If this is your first bug report, please check out:?https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-write-a-good-bug-report/.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by Priscilla Chapman. Reason: Adds links
    Thread Starter JJ

    (@jimmyj352)

    Thanks, Priscilla – I’ll do that. Would you like me to mark this as resolved or leave it open?

    Plugin Support Md Mazedul Islam Khan

    (@mazedulislamkhan)

    It’s completely fine to mark the current topic as close as you can submit the issue report to GitHub and share your thoughts over there as well. For your convenience, we are going to mark it as resolve.

    Have a great weekend!

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