How do we help make ACF content discoverable by Google using Yoast ACF Analysis?

[4DigitalPR]

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Wondering if you can advise a solution.

We really need your help as I’m not sure our site is fully optimised for search engines how it is… How do we make ACF content discoverable by Google using Yoast ACF Analysis?

We have ACF installed on our word press site and now we are trying to make our website search engine friendly.

When doing a ‘live URL update’ in Google Console, to see what Google is seeing, the website is shown but is blank where ACF fields are placed.

We have tried to figure out what the problem is and we think Google is not finding the ACF content – which our site heavily relies – I guess because the ACF is not optimised.

We have download Yoast SEO (which is helping google to see our basic WP site) and now have downloaded and activated supporting plugin ‘content analysis for Yoast’. To help Yoast see ACF content. Though I’m not sure if I’m correct?

I have started to change page title and meta descriptions - for example ACF – country. But when I press update and navigate to frontend of site - the browser tab still reads page title and meta description that I put into the Yoast wizard and not the page title and meta description I put in to ‘country’ page when I activated ‘content analysis for Yoast’.

Will the ACF page title and meta description be picked up and used in the SERP’s even if I do not see it working?

Please find image of Snippet preview as i would like

The browser tab still shows as it was set up with Yoast SEO wizard

Please describe what you expected to happen and why.

Expected the plugin to have same behaviour as Yoast SEO Tool but for optimising ACF. Hoped to have seen browser tab title changed - which would have shown me that it works?

How can we reproduce this behavior?

Technical info

• WordPress version: WordPress 5.2.2
• ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO version: Version 2.3.0
• Yoast SEO version: Version 11.8
• ACF type: pro
• ACF version: Version 5.8.3
• Relevant plugins in case of a bug:

[moorscode]

Hi @4DigitalPR

ACF is a tool that provides an easy way to add custom data to your pages. The fields that you create in the backend; which you see when editing a page/post/etc.

Though these fields are not automatically added to the content of the page you see when you visit this on your site (as your visitors would). To do this you need to modify your theme to place the content of the fields at the location you want them.

See the following tutorial "Displaying fields" on the ACF website.

What our plugin does is make sure that our readability analysis takes these fields into account (as if they are placed on the page) to make sure we can give a better indication on your keyphrase, image and URL usage. We do not incorporate any of the fields into the final page - these are very placement dependent and we cannot try to assume where a certain field should be placed most effectively; that is something only you, as an editor, can do.

I hope this helps!