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  • Siggi13
    Siggi13 last edited by Jun 9, 2016, 8:29 AM

    I just figured out that the MOZ On-Page-Grader can’t render soft hyphen in H1.

    As an example, if I have an H1 word like “some­time” the On Page Grader don’t find it as a keyword “sometime” in the H1.

    So my question, is it just a limitation on MOZ or a rule for On Page SEO to avoid soft hyphens in H1?

    Siggi

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    • ChiarynMiranda
      ChiarynMiranda Staff last edited by Jun 9, 2016, 1:50 PM Jun 9, 2016, 1:50 PM

      Hey Siggi, thanks for the question.

      The crawler that Moz uses for the On-Page scores is very rudimentary, so it can only match the characters directly and any difference between the characters on your page and the keyword term will be reflected as no match in the optimization report.

      I can't speak to the SEO aspect of the question, but I can say that Google's bot is much more sophisticated than ours, so it is likely that they can understand the similarity of the two terms much better than our On-Page crawler can.

      Another thing to keep in mind is that these reports is that we only show these as suggestions based on SEO best practices, but you may certainly find that not every suggestion is exactly what your site needs. It is important to consider what the right things is specifically for your site and to use your discretion when taking these suggestions into consideration.

      I hope this helps!

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      • Andy.Drinkwater
        Andy.Drinkwater last edited by Jun 9, 2016, 10:45 AM Jun 9, 2016, 10:45 AM

        Hi,

        I suspect this is a MOZ thing. Don't worry about the fact it is appearing in an H1, that is just coincidental. There is no SEO rule based around this at all.

        -Andy

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