SEO & Readability

This article explains how to optimize your content items. Let's look at how to optimize your content items not only for readability, but also for search engines.

Search engine optimization

Creating high-ranking content in Google just got a lot easier with Prepr. The SEO score gives you instant feedback on how well your content is optimized for search engines. Just enter the keywords you are optimizing for, and Prepr will show you what you can do to improve your search engine rankings.

To enable the SEO score, click Settings at the top of the model, click the Settings tab and switch on the Enable SEO score toggle.

When the SEO score is enabled for a model, you'll see a link to check the SEO score in the corresponding content items. Click this link to open the SEO details.

Keywords

Enter the keyword phrase that you want to optimize for this content item. These keywords are used for optimization suggestions in Prepr and are not the Google SEO keywords. The Google SEO keywords are, you might have guessed it, generated automatically by Google.

SEO title

Google typically displays the first 60–70 characters of a title tag. If you keep your titles under 70 characters, our research suggests that you can expect about 90% of your titles to display properly.

Meta description

The meta description can be any length, but Google generally truncates snippets to 320 characters. It's best to keep the meta description long enough that it's sufficiently descriptive. Therefore, we recommend a description between the 50 and the 320 characters.

Contains keyword

Prepr shows how often the entered keywords are displayed in your content item. The top three occurrences are shown in the optimization sidebar.

Google preview

Based on the given meta title and meta description, Prepr previews a Google snippet in the optimization sidebar. Did you set a domain URL and slug? This will be shown in the Google snippet as well.

Don't follow tags

Don't follow links are links with a rel=”nofollow” HTML tag applied to them. When search engines find this tag, they ignore that link. Because these links do not pass PageRank, they don’t impact search engine rankings. You can add this tag by opening the link pop up in the text editor and selecting the Don't follow checkbox.

Character count

You can set a character limit on a text field. To do so, enable the Limit character count toggle validation on the field in the model and add a maximum value. If this is set, you can see the limit when adding your content to the text field. When you hit this limit, you are not able to continue typing.