SEO is a
part of the big picture in online marketing. Only those who master all
disciplines will be successful. Even in 2018, search engine optimization will
neither be a rocket science nor a science.
The market
research company Comscore expects that by 2020, every second search query will
be made by voice. In search engine optimization, voice search is the next big
thing. On May 18, 2016, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in his Google I / O
keynote that 20 percent of all requests within the mobile app on Android
devices are voice searches.
Before we
come to concrete SEO measures for the voice search optimization, we must
briefly acquaint ourselves with the basics. Even before there was a voice
search, Google had provided, among other things, a major update for the basis
of the voice search: the Hummingbird update.
With the
Hummingbird update, Google also took into account the user’s intention and the
contextual meaning of a search query. This path will be followed up in language
search and built on.
Today
Instead of typing keywords, we talk to the language assistant. At the Microsoft
Build Developer Conference in 2016, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that:
“Human language is the UI layer”
It is
obvious that spoken language is usually more extravagant than manually typed
searches, especially on a mobile device, where the input is a bit more
time-consuming. So we can talk about 150 words per minute, but only write about
40 words per minute.
Indeed,
Voice search optimization is the next big thing in SEO
With the
increasing accuracy of digital assistants, it is becoming more and more
important to respond to users’ specific requests as accurately as possible. The
big challenge of SEO 2018 will be to ascertain the intentions of the users in
order to react to them with relevant content.
Artificial Intelligence and SEO
Artificial
intelligence is one of the most important technologies of the future and has
long since made its way into everyday life.
Google is in
my opinion the strongest artificial intelligence on our planet. It will
eventually provide us with an answer instead of search results. Therefore my
thesis is this: The search engine is dead, Google becomes the answering
machine. Google’s artificial intelligence is an enormous opportunity on one
hand, and on the other hand, this Artificial Intelligence has to be controlled
very carefully so that it does not end in a Skynet – the AI from the movie
Terminator, which can no longer be controlled.
Since Google
uses its artificial intelligence RankBrain to evaluate the most relevant
content, general ranking factors are losing importance. No longer is the single
keyword crucial, but the context of the search query. Good content today is
provided by relevant content, technical factors and a long user stay on the
website.
Artificial
intelligence already has a major impact on search results. AI systems make a
major contribution to answering the countless, complex and sometimes
unpopulated search queries.
Google’s
determination to move the AI sector forward should bring us some exciting
developments in 2018.
Long term business with the right SEO
strategy
An ultimate
SEO strategy is one that can be used for the majority of all website owners,
and is independent of business models. It should work just as well for news
websites as for online shops, social sites, blogs, but also for hobby sites,
affiliate projects, institutional websites, B2B and any other types of
websites.
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