Why Yoast Keeps Complaining

Yoast nags.

Red light. Amber light.
Too long. Too short.
Not enough keywords.
No transition words.
Readability: poor.

 
Sound familiar?

 
I spent hours trying to please it.

 
Rewriting paragraphs just to slip in a “however.”
Chopping sentences into fragments.
Stuffing the same phrase over and over again.
Until the words weren’t mine anymore.

They were hollow.
I had gained a green light…
and lost my soul.

It wasn’t just me.

 
We all got trapped in the games.
PODs.
Scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.

Daily rituals of likes and comments from people who were never clients.
Vanity masquerading as traction.

FOMO feeding the spiral.

Glamour, as AAB called it — the shiny surface that hides the emptiness.
Yoast gymnastics.

Rewriting until green.
Forcing “therefore, however, moreover” into every paragraph.

Breaking natural rhythm for staccato fragments.
Simplifying until my voice sounded like an 8th-grade essay.
I thought I was being clever.

But all I heard was crickets.
The numbers looked good —
but no cash in the bank.

The truth?

I had been feeding glamour.
Not resonance.

Burnout.

 
Exhaustion.

Feeling used.
And dirty.

Clients, too.

Chasing metrics, gaming systems,
celebrating likes while trust and sales slipped away.

Whole teams trapped in cycles of posting, scoring, comparing.

It was survival mode disguised as strategy.
And still Yoast kept complaining.

Something broke.

 Or maybe something cleared.

I stopped caring about traffic lights.
I stopped writing for algorithms.
I let the striving fall away.

And I began listening.
To rhythm.
To resonance.
To signal.

Yoast measures readability.
I measure resonance.

That was the pivot.
That was the return.

I no longer follow because “someone” said it works.

I no longer trade sovereignty for approval.

Now I write with cadence, not compliance.

I trust rhythm over readability scores.

I choose resonance over glamour.
If you’ve felt this too — you’re not broken.

You’re being invited into your own compass.
Your own inner signal.

For me, that’s living beyond dogma.
If you want to go deeper, you’ll find more here:
Beyond Dogma: Living with Inner Resonance 

This shift didn’t just change my writing.

It changed my work.
My business.
My life.

That’s the story I’ll share next → how I got here, and why SearchFound exists at all.