SEO Plugin with Text Widgets

[SinLi93]

Hey,

I am using the Executive Pro Theme and I wanted to optimize it with the Yoast SEO Plugin.
So now I found out that Yoast can't read the text of the widgets...
I wanted to ask, if it is reading the text though it's not showing it - so my SEO will improve if I put in the right keywords?
As well I would like what you guys do if you want to optimize your site (that's mostly bulit out of widgets).
Are you only using the genesis SEO and is that enough?

[ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ]

I'm not sure if this helps you any. But what I do, on pages which are widget areas, like the home page. Is just make sure I hook the widget areas onto the hook called 'genesis_loop'. This way the widget areas appear in (what google would consider' the 'main' section of the page.

So the html (what google actually can read) appears something like this..

<main class="content" itemtype="http://schema.org/Blog" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="mainContentOfPage" role="main">
<div class="front-section-1 widget-area">
<div class="front-section-2 widget-area">
</main>

the 'main' element tells google to treat this part as the main content of the page. The fact that it was made up by widget areas, or a post, or whatever you want is irrelevant in google's eyes.

The only time a widget area is seen as less important as main content is when it is in a sidebar and thats because it is put, by genesis, into an 'aside' element. Which is correct when it isn't the main content of the site.

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