YoastSEO wrong word count and internal links with ACF

Hello @beachboi

Thanks for reaching out about your custom fields. I tested the functionality between Yoast SEO, ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO and Advanced Custom Fields, and everything worked as expected.

Can you let me know how to reproduce your experience?

It is not recognizing any of the text inside my ACF fields. I use ACF with a Custom Taxonomy created with CPT UI.

I understand using taxonomy from CPT UI in ACF. Can you let me know the text field type you entered the content in? Is it text, checkbox, text area, WYSIWYG Editor? It would be helpful if you give a run-through of your setup/site structure.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks Maybeline,

Yes for sure. As I said I use a Custom Post Type called “Terms”, to define each term in my webpage. I also use Custom Taxonomies for each post to categorize them by industry (Semiconductors, Communications etc).

Then I have created several ACF fields to populate my posts. If you check any of the posts in the webpage, the titles and subtitles are a “Text” type, whereas the main text is a WYSIWYG. Image is obviously image. I have never had a problem until a few days ago. I need a solution fast please.

Another question, is this malfunction from Yoast (not recognizing the words) gonna affect my SEO positioning?

Thanks

A bit better explained

I am generating my posts using

1) A custom post type called Terms. I use CPU UI plugin

2) Custom taxonomies to identify the industries to which each term belongs, like semiconductors, communications etc.

3) ACF Pro plugin. I create advanced custom fields, and then I populate them updating an excel document with WP ALL IMPORTS. Most of the acf fields ar text type or WYSIWYG type.

4) Yoast SEO free version

5) ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO is not correctly recognizing the content inside the ACF fields, and until three days ago it used to do it rightly. Posts with 1,000 words are recognized as having 20 words, because Yoast only recognizes the text in the standard wordpress editor. It is also not recognizing my internal links ofc, bc they are inside my advanced custom fields.

I ran a health check and everything seems fine

Thanks for providing more information. Sadly, I was not able to replicate the issue. Content in WYSIWYG editor and text area is detected by Yoast SEO content analysis.

We’d have to investigate further as it could be something specific to your setup, but we are unable to do so over these public forums. You might want to consider Yoast SEO Premium for personal premium support so we can take a closer look at this.

Although our plugin does not detect your content and shows an incorrect analysis report, this does not affect how search engines crawl and analyze your site. Search engines process the front end of your site and will detect your content.