Help Yoast SEO understand the content better

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The WordPress SEO plugin ( aka Yoast SEO ) performs analysis of a posts content to evaluate how good your post is for SEO. When a post is shortcode heavy then it may produce a rather negative report. What can be done to get a better report; an amber rating rather than red?

Sample messages:

• Internal links: No internal links appear in this page, make sure to add some!
• Keyphrase in introduction: Your keyphrase or its synonyms do not appear in the first paragraph. Make sure the topic is clear immediately.
• Text length: The text contains 26 words. This is far below the recommended minimum of 300 words. Add more content.
• Not enough content: Please add some content to enable a good analysis.

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Investigation

I started writing a blog post to see how Yoast SEO analyses content. It became...

The purpose of oik issue 119 is to try to help Yoast to understand the content of the post.

Yoast SEO tests to see how easy it is to read the content inside the browser.

Many of my oik shortcodes become a lot of content when expanded. And lots of the shortcodes create links. But you can't just expand shortcodes. Yoast SEO sees the content in the browser.

By the way, I learnt about the Flesch reading score while working on this issue. That's why there are so many words.