kentaiwan98

The old review was no longer relevant. The new version works fine. Good!

I just found that perhaps one of the other profiles has the issue: load balancing? Well, we’ll see. I’ve quit using the plugin.

Confirmed. Though I have a bunch of plugins, it wasn’t a problem before. I don’t use Block editor either.

problem was solved. it was in the repository itself. perhaps their servers were down. thanks

Oh, darn. I was clicking the wrong thing!!! it works fine!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by kentaiwan98.

Please check the recent version 5.4.4 there seems to be an issue

Time to fork the original plugin under GPL license, and produce an alternative?

Google Site Kit works well, and does things that ExactMetrics doesn’t do.

Thanks. I don’t typically keep backups of plugins, especially ones with marginal utility. Anyways… I’m not keen to support a plugin that has such poor customer relationships!

Put the ” ” marks around the term in the Focus keyphrase box only, not every instance of the text in your article.

Thank you for taking the time to answer the problem, and fix it. Like someone said, Black Friday isn’t a particularly global phenomenon. It’d be kind of like selling “Single Day” products in a plugin in the US. Most people would be scratching their head, or wondering why there is a special day for hamburger cheese slices!

Kenneth

Can’t wait. Those long tail keywords are getting tons of traffic, the shorter ones are pretty much saturated! Thanks:D

Quick update. Yes, the problem came right back.

So I added ” ” marks before & after, thus “how to make coffee”.

So the keyphrase feedback changed from:

Keyphrase density: The focus keyphrase was found 114 times. That’s more than the recommended maximum of 108 times for a text of this length. Don’t overoptimize!

to:

Keyphrase density: The focus keyphrase was found 7 times. That’s less than the recommended minimum of 19 times for a text of this length. Focus on your keyphrase!

The page is not finished, but I don’t know which to believe! Do I rather remove or add phrases? Puzzled!

So then I started to check my other longer pages… and I’m seeing the same ambivalence: types of coffee beans

From
Keyphrase density: The focus keyphrase was found 15 times. That’s less than the recommended minimum of 17 times for a text of this length. Focus on your keyphrase!

To

Keyphrase density: The focus keyphrase was found 15 times. That’s less than the recommended minimum of 27 times for a text of this length. Focus on your keyphrase!

The only common factor is that each phrase is ‘four words in length’. The only unusual thing is I’m using Site Origin on those pages.

On other posts, I’m seeing the same behavior when I add quote marks as you suggest. It is a regular occurrence.

WP 5.3 using SiteOrigin (latest) and Yoast (Version 12.5.1) running on PHP7.2.x

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by kentaiwan98.
• This reply was modified 5 years ago by kentaiwan98.

Thank you for your reply. I keep everything 100% updated, except when I meet bugs. Currently everything is 100%. I finally nailed the issue. The version of Yoast and WP would be whatever current version was on the day of the ‘bug’ report.

The word ‘coffee’ was the problem. IOW, Yoast kept flagging that as too often even though the keyword phrase was in fact “how to make coffee”. I recreated the issue in a separate page as well.

In an article about how to make coffee, you’d expect the word ‘coffee’ to be even more frequent. However, I removed the excess usage of the word ‘coffee’ and that resolved it.

I can only surmise that the extreme use of the word coffee triggered some other ‘flag’ in your software or that the software was truncating the keyword. I have used much longer KW phrases in the past without issue, though.

Yes. I noticed that the Analytics permissions seem a little weird for that account. So I will probably just make a new analytics property for that site to sidestep troubleshooting time wasting.

Thanks for the tip. It seems to jibe with the error I discovered.