I would like to know if there has been a resolution to the following post. I am having the same difficulties with Yoast not being able to read inside my SiteOrigin widgets. Also, does this mean google can’t read inside my widgets either?
“”I see a thread in which Andrew Misplon helped users with the issue of the Yoast SEO (free) not “reading”text etc. within the Visual seeing copy inside “Visual Editor” widgets.
I have a website with 85 pages (so far) and a couple dozen posts. I love Visual Editor because I can adjust the widths of the boxes and add images etc. I work exclusively in them entering html because I like working with the nuts and bolts of the text and images.
With Yoast SEO, the assessment guides at the bottom of the page will indicate “there are 0 words on this page,” despite there being as many as 2,000, broken up among 10 or more Visual Editor widgets, and it will say “0 images,” despite there being four or five large jpgs.
So obviously, I would like to use Yoast to help me improve SEO. More to the point, however, is Yoast’s inability to see through the “widget walls” and count words and images a reflection of Google and search engines’ inability to find my copy? Or does it just mean that Yoast can’t provide assessments and it makes no material difference to how Google and search engines perceive what’s going on.””
Hi Bjanet0,
This issue has been resolved outside of a few select rare instances.
For general analyze, please ensure Copy Content is enabled and that you’re using the latest version of SiteOrigin Page Builder and the SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle. To enable Copy Content, please navigate to WP AdminSettingsContent and tick Copy Content and save. This setting isn’t retroactive so you’ll need to resave any page created before this setting change.
For updates as you edit, it’s recommended that you use the SiteOrigin Editor widget as it’s designed to constantly trigger Yoast into reanalyzing text while other widgets (such as the Visual Editor widget you’re using) may not do this. Basically, any instance of the TinyMCE editor in a SiteOrigin Widget should be able to trigger an update but it really depends on what version of the SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle you’re using.