Comments on: How to use the Yoast SEO plugin to optimize a blog post [2025]

By: Eb Gargano

Eb Gargano — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 08:30:25 +0000

Hi Cindy, remember Yoast is just a guide. It gives you useful prompts to remind you to do certain things – like ensuring you have put your keyword phrase in at least one heading, as well as your meta / first paragraph / title etc. But you don’t need to follow it slavishly… Ultimately you should be optimizing for your reader, and sometimes that means ignoring 1 or more of the suggestions in Yoast. If you think adding more keywords into headings will be too much, it probably will be! And your readers would probably think that too. It’s totally OK to leave a few of the Yoast traffic lights amber or red, if you feel that turning it green would make your blog post worse not better. Hope that helps! Eb 🙂

By: Cindy Rybaczyk

Cindy Rybaczyk — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 16:49:46 +0000

Hi Eb! Quick question for you… I feel like by following Yoast’s suggestion about “Keyphrase in subheading: use more keyphrases or synonyms in your H2 and H3 subheadings”, I’m overstuffing the keyphrases in! Plus when following their suggestions about the keyphrase density they recommend, it seems even more overstuffed. The problem is if I don’t follow what’s recommended, Yoast lists it as a problem (like in your example for “spring clean your blog” from in this article). Is there a way to avoid this (feeling like I’m repeating myself over and over again)? Or should I just go with what it’s saying and not worry about it? I’m using Yoast Premium, so I’m optimizing for multiple keyphrases. Thanks for your ongoing help!

By: Eb Gargano

Eb Gargano — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:22:36 +0000

In reply to David. Great to hear! You are welcome :-D

By: David

David — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 01:25:38 +0000

Great article! Thanks