Semantic SEO

There is a basic semantic SEO strategy that can help your site gain massive traffic.

That strategy is called topical authority.

This SEO paradigm shift is a result of search engines attempting to understand the meaning of search queries to bring the best results for those queries.

This has changed SEO as we know it. Instead of optimizing content around keywords, we should now focus on optimizing content around entire topics.

When we do that successfully we achieve topical authority.

But…

How do you actually research your chosen topic?

In this post, I’ll show you some clear actions you can take to easily understand how Google organizes entities in its Knowledge Graph so that you can design a semantic SEO strategy that could position you as the authority in your chosen topic.

Okay, so you’re getting into semantic SEO. Great idea.

In my last blog post, I explained what semantic search is. It’s now time to understand how to build a semantic SEO strategy.

In this post, I’ll get into the difference between keywords and topics and explain why focusing on topics could revolutionize your SEO and potentially bring you way more traffic. 

I don’t intend this post to be my final word on covering topics. It’s intended to be a general overview that will give you a solid understanding that you'll need to build content silos that get massive traffic.

We all feel it.

SEO has changed dramatically.

What used to work when I started out (when the world was still in black and white), is not working like it used to.

And, as the search engines evolve we SEOs have to evolve with it.

When trying to find answers, I discovered semantic SEO. 

I discovered that semantic search influences all of the SEO basics, including:

• Keyword research
• Search intent
• Content creation
• Site architecture
• Internal linking
• And more

In this blog post, I’ll be giving you an overview of semantic search. My goal is to give you a solid foundation to work with so that when you learn semantic SEO strategies you’ll understand why they work.

When creating content, understanding user intent is key.

Now as an SEO myself, I have been analyzing user intent for a while.

The more time I spend trying to understand it the more I realize that the search intent Google presents is multi-layered. In other words, search intent is far more complex than looking for informational, commercial, navigational, and transactional intent.

With that in mind…

In this post, I’ll show you how to easily spot some of the various user intents that appear on a Google SERP so that you can generate more traffic by targeting more users.

This month’s episode of the SEO Trends for 2021 roundup covers some big topics. All of which could make a fundamental shift in how you do SEO.

Yes, times are changing. SEO is maturing and as SEOs, we must mature with it.

In this post, you’ll learn:

• Why covering all aspects of a topic will help your site deal with competitive and volatile SERPs
• What topical relevance is and why it’s one of the most important ranking factors today
• How semantic SEO will change the way we do SEO (forever!)

How good is Google at understanding entities?

It's an important question since so much depends on exactly that, especially since Google now profiles sites (i.e., treats them as entities). While Google has some hangups when it comes to understanding entities, it's also made some giant leaps. 

Have a look at how Google is reaching deeper than ever into entities and why it might be on the verge of taking things to a whole new level.

Google has gotten really good at recognizing entities and how various entities relate to each other. There's no doubt about it. That said, how well can Google truly profile an entity? What happens when an entity has more than one profile? Is Google able to pick up on entity sub-profiles? What if someone is both an actor/actress and a director? What happens when a celebrity goes into politics? How does Google view the secondary profile of these entities?

With the semantic web greatly changing the way we find and consume web pages, new rules were imposed on companies and brands aiming to provide insightful information for their online readers. This means adopting techniques beyond engaging in a bit of ‘subtle’ keyword/synonym stuffing and actually understanding the ways the semantic web works before producing any type of content.