Writing simple content isn’t about dumbing it down. Instead, it’s about reaching and then keeping a wider audience by making your content easier to comprehend. More than anything else, you want readers to grasp what you’re saying. The Yoast SEO Readability Score is a way to check your writing against best practices to have your content accessible to the majority of readers — and also to search engines.
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