Title: Please, what am I doing wrong?
Last modified: December 7, 2016

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# Please, what am I doing wrong?

 *  [bplatt21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bplatt21/)
 * (@bplatt21)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-what-am-i-doing-wrong/)
 * I must be doing something wrong because Yoast is flat out not working for me.
   I have been doing just about everything right and getting green SEO ratings throughout
   for over a year but I am not seeing any of my keywords show up in SEMRush, Ahrefs,
   or Search Console (I don’t even rank in SpyFu). I am however ranking for nonsensical
   terms that I am not optimizing my site for. Terms like “big five boots”, “komodo
   boots”, and “shark finning quotes”. I am a conservation blog that did separate
   articles on _shark finning_ and _conservation quotes_, but not on the two together.
   Point is, no keyword that I put in Yoast is working and instead I am appearing
   to rank for keywords that combine either multiple articles, or just drop in the
   name of my brand within an article’s keyword. What am I doing wrong?
 * Site- _dontforgetyourboots.com_

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