Yoast SEO: Dashboard

In this article, we’ll discuss the Dashboard, available under the General settings of Yoast SEO in your WordPress backend. On this page, you get a direct overview of how readable and SEO-optimized your content is. The other tabs in the General settings are First-time configuration and Alert center.

Dashboard

The Dashboard is the first page you see when you go to General in the Yoast SEO menu. Here, you can see an overview of your SEO and Readability scores. You can instantly see what is good, what is OK, and what requires improvement.

Want to know what our SEO analysis means? Check out the details of all the assessments in our SEO analysis!

Not sure what these Readability scores refer to? We explain all the ins and outs of easy-to-read content on our Readability analysis page.

For both the SEO scores and Readability scores, you can filter your overview per content type and per category.

If you want to start improving your content right away, you can also click on View to directly go to the content with this rating.

Alert center

In the Alert center, there are two types of alerts: Problems and Notifications.

Problems

Under the Problems heading, we show you the issues we’ve detected, that affect the SEO of your site. Fix these as soon as possible to make sure that your site performs well in the search engines. If you have a problem, we provide an explanation. You can click on the links in the explanation if you want more information, so you can fix the issues.

Notifications

In the Notifications heading, we show you updates and new information about Yoast SEO.

First-time configuration

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