If you have a long list of target keywords, you'll want to put your most important target keywords at the top. That way, you can keep a closer eye on the findability metrics for these keywords.
Additionally, the priority of your keywords influences how Acrolinx validates the prominence of your keywords. If high-priority keywords have low prominence scores, you'll see prominence warnings in the Sidebar.
You can order your list by dragging and dropping the keyword entries in the Target Keywords section.
You can then see how the keywords in your target keywords list apply to your content.
To check your content for findability, follow these steps:
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Open the content that you want to check and access the Sidebar.
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Click CHECK to check your content.
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Open the
Target Keywords section of the
Findability tab and review the keywords.
When you review your keyword information, you can use the findability metrics to help assess your content.
Here's a short explanation of those metrics:
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Frequency |
The frequency metric is a measurement of the keyword count in relation to the size of the document. It's expressed as a score out of 100. |
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Count |
The number of times the keyword appeared in your content. |
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Prominence |
This metric measures the prominent placement of keywords in your content. Prominent placement can be in the document title, headings, or opening paragraph. Acrolinx uses a special formula to give each keyword a prominence score out of 10. |
Acrolinx also warns you when there's a problem with your findability metrics. For example, Acrolinx warns you when the prominence scores of your keywords don't match the order of priority. The following illustration explains these warnings in more detail:
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1) Yellow prominence warning |
The keyword that's above this one has a lower prominence score. In this example, you'd want to make the keyword "specific context" more prominent in your content. You could also drag it below the keyword "guideline" so that "guideline" has a higher priority. |
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2) Red prominence warning |
The keyword that's two places higher in priority has a lower prominence score than this one. In this example, you'd want to make the keyword "specific context" more prominent in the content. You could also drag it below the keyword "context" so that "context" has a higher priority. |
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3) Red count warning |
The count is zero, so it looks like this target keyword is completely missing from the content. In this example, you'd want to add the keyword "rule" at least once in the content. |