Hey Guys! Dan Shure here, you may know me from Twitter, the Distilled blog or the SEOmoz community. Mike asked me to do a guest post, which I greatly appreciate (thanks Mike!). I had to tell him on direct message the other day that I didn’t think I’d be able to get him something this week because of a heavy schedule. But you know – forget that!! I promised I’d come through for you. So to that, for me, a video is much quicker to do than a full text post. Thus, the circa 2007 Rand Fishkin style whiteboard video you see before you.
SEO Is NOT Just About Text and Links Anymore
Below, I tackle a topic I’ve been unconsciously working up to for the past few months. What do the following have in common? The related search operator, IMDB search results, and the mysterious search for fave. Anyone? Not only did I write about all three, I believe they all have to do with entity based search.
This video (hopefully) answers THREE questions:
- What is Entity Search?
- What Can Trigger Entity Results?
- What Should I Be Doing / Why Should I care?
So check out the video below. Its my FIRST VIDEO!! Woohoo! Been wanting to do a video for a while. Hope you like it!
Lots of links and references below!!!
If you don’t watch all the way to the end (why wouldn’t you?)… you should! There some actionable tips for what you can do to start preparing for entity based search!!
I will definitely be researching and writing more on this topic when I’m not so buried in work at the moment… so more slideshows, screenshots and videos too (if you liked it) to come!!
Some of the resources I have read, and you should read too… these people are smarter than me:
Named Entity Detection in Queries – SEO by the Sea
Query Re-writing with Entity Detection – Patent
How a Search Engine Might Assume an Implied Site Search – SEO by the Sea
Bill Slawski’s Explanation of ‘Fave’ – Google Plus Discussion
Entity Search Results – Justin Briggs
- It’s Time To Stop Ignoring Entity Search - February 15, 2012
