Title: Visual Composer Reading Issue
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Visual Composer Reading Issue

 *  Resolved [dhessami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhessami/)
 * (@dhessami)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-composer-reading-issue/)
 * Hi Yoast is still not reading the key words in the first paragraph of my posts
   when using visual composer to build the pages. There are other read issues. Do
   you know how to work around this? Its causing unnecessary low Yoast SEO scores.
 * Thanks
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 *  [Taco Verdonschot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tacoverdo/)
 * (@tacoverdo)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-composer-reading-issue/#post-6767147)
 * We’ve confirmed this issue and created a [bug report for it on GitHub](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/3360).
   
   The easiest fix for now is setting your meta description manually by clicking
   the current meta description and adding the correct one.
 * Sorry for the inconvenience!
 *  Thread Starter [dhessami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhessami/)
 * (@dhessami)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-composer-reading-issue/#post-6767152)
 * Hi Taco, the meta description is fine, its simply the problem with Yoast not 
   recognising what is the first par on the post page for us i think? My key word
   is 3 words in on the first paragraph.
 * Thanks Maddi86 i think we may try and roll back. Good call!
 * D
 *  [Taco Verdonschot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tacoverdo/)
 * (@tacoverdo)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-composer-reading-issue/#post-6767153)
 * Can you post a screenshot of your content and focus keyword please?
    That might
   be helpful in determining the cause of the issue you’re experiencing.
 *  Thread Starter [dhessami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhessami/)
 * (@dhessami)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-composer-reading-issue/#post-6767181)
 * Hey ive looked at the GitHub and i think its simply the reason that Yoast is 
   reading the Visual Composer shortcode rather than the text content of the text
   block. I could be mistaken?
 * Link to page so you can see the first Par (Blockchain is 7 words into the top):
   [http://research.greyspark.com/2015/blockchain-capital-markets-use-cases-2/](http://research.greyspark.com/2015/blockchain-capital-markets-use-cases-2/)
 * Image link to focus keyword: [http://research.greyspark.com/assets/Blockchain-2.jpg](http://research.greyspark.com/assets/Blockchain-2.jpg)
 *  Thread Starter [dhessami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhessami/)
 * (@dhessami)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-composer-reading-issue/#post-6767320)
 * Hi Taco any news on this?
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [dhessami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhessami/)
 * (@dhessami)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-composer-reading-issue/#post-6767351)
 * Had to rolllllll back to the latest version 2 to fix the issues version 3’s are
   causing.
 * You guys have some serious work to do on the next release.
 * Good luck!

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 * Last reply from: [dhessami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhessami/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-composer-reading-issue/#post-6767351)
 * Status: resolved