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Erik Dietrich

Wow, this is a great resource. I've seen a lot of hosting/site migrations where the company could have benefited enormously from taking a pass through this and turning it into a todo list.

Anyway, this is kind of a long shot since you're helping with managed Wordpress, but do you happen to know if any of the Yoast alternatives/SEO plugins offer any kind of non-Wordpress way to analyze text? A lot of our authors like to compose in Markdown editors or Google docs, so they can't get readability/on-page SEO feedback until they paste the finished product into Wordpress. So if you happen to know of an SEO plugin that also has some kind of Google Docs plugin or works in a markdown editor, I'd be very interested to know.

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lizziekardon

Thanks for your feedback! Sort of like a Grammarly for SEO? I'll look around. In the meantime maybe dig a little into these 4 and see if any of them have non-wp functionality:
pagely.com/blog/yoast-seo-alternat...

Also there's this for gdocs but I haven't used it personally, sounds like what you're looking for thought: gsuite.google.com/marketplace/app/...

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Erik Dietrich

"Grammarly for SEO" is actually the perfect way to describe it, I'd say :)

Thanks for the links. Will do some research.

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lizziekardon

Let me know if you find something good!

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Thoux

Great post Lizzie.

Erik, you can use textoptimizer.com/ for analyse your content before publication. But the tool is expensive if you do not use it often (60$ / month). I use their Google Chrome extension and is perfect for me.

Regards

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lizziekardon

nice. looks like you can get 3 months free if you sign up for the yearly -- might be worth it if you're using it a lot.

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Erik Dietrich

(I'm not sure if I'm replying to the right message because I don't really understand the no-op "thread" link, but I'm trying to get it right...)

I signed up for a free account to check it out, thanks! I'm personally intrigued by the question keyword suggestions. I currently use ahrefs to generate those.

I think for me the snag would be that I'm not worried about optimizing my writing, but rather dozens of authors that we have writing for us. $60 per month would be no problem, but $60/month/author would start to add up in a hurry for us.