Hi, I’ve used SEO for WordPress by Yoast with Divi and noticed these issues too, but only in pages/posts created using Divi’s Page Builder. I’ve concluded that this is because Yoast cannot program the plugin to recognize and access all the different types of custom page builders that developers include in their premium themes (How time-consuming would that be with all the theme developers out there who create proprietary page/post editors! Not cost efficient on his part I’m sure), so it’s just looking at the default WordPress Editor to find the content to be analyzed. In some cases (usually only in WooCommerce product editing pages) I can get around this by entering the same content into the default editor (which I then have to delete after analyzing so there isn’t duplicate content on the page), but this can’t be done on regular pages/posts since you’ll lose all the content you created in the Page Builder whenswitching over to the default editor. Really, I know the plugin works, so I just take the page builder limitation into account when reading the SEO plugin’s guidance, knowing that if it could read the headings and text and detect the images there, the page would receive a higher score. I know this doesn’t actually help you, but I hope it’s reassuring.
I thought the Elegant Themes Divi theme Page Builder was the issue causing problems for WordPress SEO by Yoast not to be able to read all well. Moving back to regular editing with the standard editor would mean removing all content created with the Page Builder. I guess because switching will wipe all short codes used to make the builder interact with WordPress. This means switching is not really possible. Do hope ET will work out a way to make the most popular SEO plugin play well with Divi soon!
Is this the same reason that Yoast reports there are no photos or links on my page when I have a slider that includes many photos and links???
Are the crawlers and SEO concerns still being meant? Or is content included in sliders invisible when it comes to SEO???
I am using Divi as well – got the exact same problem.
This is a major flaw in the theme. Hopefully it will be updated with the Divi 2.4.
Divi is not the only theme that does this–I find any theme with elements/containers (Themewaves- Creative), is the same way.
So….was this fixed with Divi 2.4? I’m thinking about building a site with it but I’m very nervous about things like this.
I think YOAST SEO will struggle with DIVI regardless of the updates. Its got to do with the code the “page builder” uses. Try building a page with page builder then editing it as a traditional page – there is left over code/snippets all over the place.
I’ve moved to HEADWAY (headwaythemes.com) and haven’t looked back. It doesn’t effect page content if you change themes and it has its own build in SEO that makes it very easy to ensure your site is 100% Search Engine Optimised straight out the box.
I’ve just started working with latest Divi release 2.4.5.1 and can confirm that Yoast picks up on focus keyword/s from the Divi Builder in pages, also media library items but doesn’t see images in pages from the Divi Builder.
Hope this helps!
Thanks for the feedback. Will check again asap.
I’m using Divi 2.4.6.1 and Yoast works for everything except content. Recognizes focus keywords, meta descriptions, titles, etc., but won’t recognize any keywords in CONTENT made with Divi page builder. Unless I’m missing something, in which case please correct me.
Yoast gives these pages OKAY ratings because it won’t pull anything from the main content of the page, but I’m curious if this effects anything from an SEO standpoint. The right keywords are linked to the right pages within the page builder, but Yoast doesn’t pick them up, so does this make any real difference or do we just continue building knowing that the content is linked with the right keywords, even though Yoast says otherwise.
Thoughts?
Here is a weird thing. I just noticed on one website where I use DIVI and Yoast the Page Builder disappears when you try to edit a page. I deactivate Yoast SEO and the Divi Page Builder reappears. Yes, I clicked the checkbox to show the page builder in screen options. I also tried to unchecking the Yoast SEO in screen options. Everything is up to date with the latest themes, plugins and core WordPress. I also use Cloudflare and their Flexible SSL but I did not try to bypass Cloudflare but I did disable all plugins before determining it was Yoast causing the issue.
I’ve done 50 or more sites with Divi and Yoast and don’t see the issue on any other site. I checked a Network site using Divi and Yoast, no problem. I also checked another site using Cloudflare, Flexible SSL, Divi and Yoast and no problem. Therefore it must be a glitch with just this one website. Posted this so if you see this issue you won’t feel alone.
I just disable Yoast when I want to update the website because the pages work fine. Just can’t see the builder in the backend and yes, I repaired and optimized the db just in case and that did not fix the issue.
Hi Kevin,
The Focus keyword and score are only analysis tools. Nothing you enter in “Focus Keyword” outputs to the front of the site. (Unlike SEO Title, Meta Description, etc.)
The Focus Keyword is there to help you understand what Google sees.
If the tool can’t see the field.. then your score will be artificially low from the tool… but will be higher according to Google because Google will see the boxed output.
Our content analysis is just to validate the content of your website and doesn’t really affect how search engines crawl and index your site.
That being said, in the past, we have tried to parse shortcodes and theme content boxes with horrible results so we opted to provide plugin and theme developers with a filter that can be used to pass their content to our page analysis. Please refer to this KB article: Can I add data to the page analysis? http://kb.yoast.com/article/91-can-i-add-data-to-the-page-analysis
Your developer may also need this URL helpful: http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/yoast-seo-acf/
As long as the content is available to Google, you are good to go. Don’t think that a green light is mandatory if there is a valid reason for our plugin to be unable to see some of the data that you know is there.
If you need additional personalized assistance to help you get this solved we also offer Premium support which you can learn more about at http://kb.yoast.com/article/160-support
~ Kim ~
Support at Yoast
Hey there,
I’m using the Yoast SEO plugin with a divi child theme, and am getting a similar problem to the ones listed above.
All of my pages are displaying “No images appear in this page, consider adding some as appropriate.” despite the fact that many of them have multiple images. I’m aware that the page builder could possibly be the issue here (as mentioned above); whether that is the case or not, I’m hoping that there is a solution/workaround that can solve this issue.
Cheers, 🙂
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