[SmartCrawl Pro] keyword field, parameter

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The field Keyword doesn’t appear to handle parameters?
I use a plugin, Page Generator; that can make mutiple pages from 1 template, there I need to enter the parameter in Keyword like: carpenter {region}. Which on generation will result in ‘carpenter london’, ‘carpenter paris’,…
The same count for Meta Description but this seems to work fine.
Of course the keyword + parameter needs to be evaluated as such. And that is not working! The parameter is omitted.

  • Kasia Swiderska
    • Support nomad

    Hello Kurt ,

    By Keyword do you mean Focus keyword field? Please note that SmartCrawl since version 2.4 doesn’t have any more meta keywords field anymore (it will be back as optional in the future tho).
    Focus keywords are only used for checking the recommendation for the content, so they won’t be parsing any parameters and they won’t be showing up in the source code of site.

    Or maybe you are using older version of SmartCrawl and it doesn’t work for you? Let me know.

    kind regards,
    Kasia

  • Kurt
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    I’m not talking about Meta keyword.
    But about the Focus keyword; there I like to enter a keyword AND a parameter keyword from the Page generator plugin I use.
    In the screenshot you see the Backend editor in this plugin. Like marked I use the parameter {regio}
    The SEO Analysis should then do the checks for Focus keyword (phrase) ‘ipad kassa {regio}’ where regio will be replaced with the first word from the keyword list ‘regio’. Like ‘ipad kassa paris’.
    All SEO checks should then be done for this phrase.
    Also in the page itself I hvae the {regio} parameter included. Just link in the Descrition meta.

    Please checkout this page where it shows more info:
    https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/page-generator-pro/generate-seo-integration/

  • Kasia Swiderska
    • Support nomad

    Hello Kurt ,

    Thanks for the clarification!

    I have tested the free version of the Page Generator with SmartCrawl on my site and Focus keyword field works the same way as on the video from this page https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/page-generator-pro/generate-seo-integration/
    I have also compared this with SEO Yoast and got the same results.

    The SEO Analysis should then do the checks for Focus keyword (phrase) ‘ipad kassa {regio}’ where regio will be replaced with the first word from the keyword list ‘regio’. Like ‘ipad kassa paris’.

    I’m afraid that if this is only in the Pro version I’m not able to test that – from what I see in free version what you described is not happening for Yoast (and SmartCrawl works the same).

    If you are using Page Generator Pro, would it be possible for you to share it with us for testing purposes?
    You could zip it and share it using Dropbox or gDrive it would be awesome.

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    kind regards,
    Kasia

  • Patrick Freitas
    • FLS

    Hi Kurt

    Hope you are doing well.

    I made some tests on staging and it worked fine.

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    The macro only will be replaced by the city on the real page, the {city} will stay on the plugin template as you can see on this video.

    https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/page-generator-pro/generate-seo-integration/

    In case this is not happening on live site, could you also grant the support access and we can take a closer look for you?

    Best Regards
    Patrick Freitas

  • Kurt
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Yes that part with page title is OK in the generated pages. But what I like to point out is something else;
    It is the analysis from Smartcrawl that somehow is not using the real Focus keywords to evaluate the result.
    I notice that there are now less recommendations than at the creation of this ticket, not sure what happened there? It wasn’t an update, SC 2.4.3 (13th nov) was installed, which I now upgraded to v2.5
    I’m missing recommendations like for instance: ‘image tags contains keywords’, ‘keywords in subheading’, ‘outbound links’ or ‘internal links’, which all are important for good SEO.

    Currently this test page says ‘you have 2 recommendations’
    I only see 1: ‘slug has no keywords’, but I don’t see a field to enter the slug? On yoast this OK.
    What is the second?

    I notice that enter {city} in the ALT text of the image also works fine. That’s important.
    But why is there no recommendation on the Alt image tags? Very important for SEO. And this check should evaluate the real keyword like ‘ipad london’ not ‘ipad {city}’, Yoast also recommends multiple images with the keywords alt tags in it on 1 page.

    On the test page (Page Generator, Content) I noticed that Yoast is also active, I disabled this plugin now. Otherwise I think those 2 plugins, SC and yoast will conflict with each other.

    Maybe it is a good idea to provide the plugin author with text about optimal use practice for Smartcrawl. I suppose they will be happy to add this to their support page you linked before, just like it is now for Yoast and All-in SEO Pack.

  • Hassan Akhtar
    • Developer

    Hi Kurt ,

    Thanks for providing us feedback about SmartCrawl. Let me answer some of your questions.

    I notice that there are now less recommendations than at the creation of this ticket

    This can happen if the site is slower than usual due to server load or too many plugins etc. Basically SmartCrawl tries to ‘read’ the page in order to provide accurate SEO recommendations but sometimes it is unable to do so because the site is slow. However there is an easy fix that you can try. Please add this to your WP config file:

    define('SMARTCRAWL_ANALYSIS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT', 60);

    but I don’t see a field to enter the slug

    WordPress itself gives you the ability to change the post slug. In Gutenberg the slug field appears as a popup above the title (once the post has been autosaved for the first time).

    Maybe it is a good idea to provide the plugin author with text about optimal use practice for Smartcrawl.

    Could you please elaborate on this further? Do you mean we should improve the documentation?

    Thanks,
    Hassan

  • Kurt
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    So there can be less SEO tests/recommendations due to a slow server? But my site is on wpmudev hosting?!?
    Anyway I added the line in wpconfig, why is that not automatically done at setup, afterall these are important checks. But still I don’t see all recommendations? I’m missing: ‘image tags contains keywords’, ‘keywords in subheading’, ‘outbound links’ or ‘internal links’.

    About the slug: that isn’t working to enter the slug via the Gutenburg field or even Quick edit. It needs to accessable just like the meta description. As seen here like yoast does it, on the middle this page https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/page-generator-pro/generate-seo-integration/
    To be able to enter the generator fields like {city} in the slug.
    My proposal about the documentation is to supply the info also to WPZinc so they can added it to their page I linked, just like there is info about Yoast too on this page.

    Can you please have a closer look, why I don’t see all recommendations espacially about the image ALT text? Without this check it is useless for me to use SC.

  • Patrick Freitas
    • FLS

    Hi Kurt

    Hope you are doing well.

    So there can be less SEO tests/recommendations due to a slow server? But my site is on wpmudev hosting?!?

    The main problem is the time limit, the plugin must have enough time to check the page, in some cases we must increase this limit depending on the number of page/posts, plugins installed or not returning the results.

    I checked your WPMU DEV server and the Loads are fine.

    About the slug: that isn’t working to enter the slug via the Gutenburg field or even Quick edit. It needs to accessable just like the meta description. As seen here like yoast does it, on the middle this page https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/page-generator-pro/generate-seo-integration/

    The Slug is generated automatically by WordPress depending on the Page Title in case no Slug is defined, but I see the plugin has itself a field to add the custom Slug, same for description, but I passed this to Smart Crawl developers for further discussion and see if can be implemented on the plugin.

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    Can you please have a closer look, why I don’t see all recommendations espacially about the image ALT text? Without this check it is useless for me to use SC.

    Is it happening on Live site too? I can see it happens on the staging site, I made a plugin/theme test but made no difference.

    If this happens on the live site as well, I will need to escalate this to our second line support.

    Best Regards
    Patrick Freitas

  • Kurt
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    The Slug that is generated automatically by WordPress is not containing the keyphrase, so that isn’t workign for SEO pages this way.
    Smartcrawl need to be able to make the slug itself including the keyphares and the keyword like {city} from the Generator plugin. Just like it is done with the Meta description.

    The recommendation is indeed showing in the live site.

  • Kurt
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    You’re correct, I overlooked the slug permalink part, on the page.
    I had another try with the generator parameter {city} in the slug and it works just fine. So I think no further changes are necessary.
    I have green now on all checks.

    About the image alt tags:
    I don’ see how the check is done exactly. How many images before you get green? I think just 1?
    This is what Yoast recommends;
    “If your content has more than 4 images, you’ll only get a green bullet if the percentage of images with the keyphrase in the alt text falls within 30 and 70%. If you use the keyphrase in more than 70% of your images, your bullet will turn orange to prevent you from keyword stuffing. If you have Yoast SEO Premium, the plugin will also take synonyms you’ve added to your keyphrase into account.”
    It would be a good addition to also show how the alt text-check works in smatcrawl, just like how it is on most other checks.
    about the keyphrase check
    You need 2% to get green, I think this is a lot, that looks like stuffing on some pages.
    Again yoast recomments: “In the free version of Yoast SEO, you’ll get a green bullet if your keyphrase density lies between 0.5 and 3%. For a match to be counted, all words should occur in one sentence, but the order of the words may differ.”

  • Kasia Swiderska
    • Support nomad

    Hello Kurt ,

    About the image alt tags:
    I don’ see how the check is done exactly. How many images before you get green? I think just 1?

    No, it looks like you need to have the keyword in all images in SmartCrawl to get green.

    “If your content has more than 4 images, you’ll only get a green bullet if the percentage of images with the keyphrase in the alt text falls within 30 and 70%. If you use the keyphrase in more than 70% of your images, your bullet will turn orange to prevent you from keyword stuffing. If you have Yoast SEO Premium, the plugin will also take synonyms you’ve added to your keyphrase into account.”
    It would be a good addition to also show how the alt text-check works in smatcrawl, just like how it is on most other checks.
    (..)
    Again yoast recomments: “In the free version of Yoast SEO, you’ll get a green bullet if your keyphrase density lies between 0.5 and 3%. For a match to be counted, all words should occur in one sentence, but the order of the words may differ.”

    That makes sense. I will discuss this with the SmartCrawl team about improving those scores in our plugin.

    Thanks for the feedback.

    kind regards,
    Kasia