Title: subheadings not recognised
Last modified: August 5, 2020

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# subheadings not recognised

 *  Resolved [kirstenkerr5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirstenkerr5/)
 * (@kirstenkerr5)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subheadings-not-recognised/)
 * Under readability it is coming up as having no subheadings but I have plenty.
   I am using Avada and have the headings in a title box element, using H2. Is it
   a problem to have them in the title box? This helps me to space them better. 
   Also, this article is ranked 0 on the Flesch reading scale which I don’t understand.
   One of my articles is 54, and the writing seems similar. My site is not launched
   to the public yet as I am just getting started so I don’t know if that means 
   the link will work. Thank you.
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   to see the link]_

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 *  [Rumejan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onlyincebu/)
 * (@onlyincebu)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subheadings-not-recognised/#post-13215256)
 * Hello [@kirstenkerr5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirstenkerr5/)!
 * The Yoast SEO plugin only analyses the default WordPress content areas. It does
   not recognize content that is outside of the main content box of a page or post.
   If you are adding your content using custom fields or other plugin/theme content
   boxes, widgets, including page builders and visual composers, our plugin might
   not be able to detect it by default.
 * In the past, we have tried to parse shortcodes and other content boxes with inferior
   results. Therefore, we opted to provide plugin and theme developers with an API
   that they can use to pass their content to our page analysis.
 * If you are using a plugin or theme that doesn’t send their content to our page
   analysis, please reach out to the developer and ask them about adding the functionality
   to their code. This [KB article](https://yoast.com/help/is-the-plugin-compatible-with-xyz-visual-page-builder/)
   will help them with the implementation.
 * With that being said, while our plugin isn’t able to detect all your text blocks
   and shows an incorrect analysis report, this doesn’t mean that search engines
   won’t be able to parse them. Our content analysis is to validate the content 
   of your website and doesn’t really affect how search engines crawl and index 
   your site.
 *  Thread Starter [kirstenkerr5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirstenkerr5/)
 * (@kirstenkerr5)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subheadings-not-recognised/#post-13215405)
 * Hi Rumejan (@onlyincebu)
    Thank you so much for your reply. I am very new at 
   this so can I just clarify a couple of things. So within the edit post page, 
   I am using title elements alternated with text block elements. So will Yoast 
   not identify the titles as titles, even though I am using H2 for them? Also, 
   just clarifying, are you saying that the red/orange/green rating I get is only
   for my information and the actual rating doesn’t affect the search optimisation?
   I appreciate the advice.
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by [kirstenkerr5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirstenkerr5/).
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by [kirstenkerr5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirstenkerr5/).
 *  [Rumejan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onlyincebu/)
 * (@onlyincebu)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subheadings-not-recognised/#post-13215474)
 * **I am using title elements alternated with text block elements**
    If you’re 
   using the Avada-specific title element, the Yoast SEO plugin won’t be able to
   recognize that.
 * **red/orange/green rating I get is only for my information**
    Correct. As long
   as you know you have added the right content like heading, internal links, images,
   etc., so will Google. Google will still be able to scan the source code of the
   page.
 *  Thread Starter [kirstenkerr5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirstenkerr5/)
 * (@kirstenkerr5)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subheadings-not-recognised/#post-13216752)
 * Hi Rumejan (@onlyincebu)
    Thank you so much for taking the time to help me. I
   really appreciate it. Regards, Kirsten

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