September 12, 2014

Google’s Semantic Search – What You Should Know?

Semantic search can be a slippery thread to get hold of. For novices in the Search engine optimization domain, semantic search poses as a steep learning curve. Close to the bottom of the curve, the rank amateurish of optimization strategies would inevitably struggle to generate traffic for his web content, a downward spiral that is unavoidable after a certain point in time.


Semantic search


Although semantic search has been implemented by Google analytics, it throws any pre-formed notions one has of generating traffic via keyword-based and link-based content out of the window.Thankfully, semantic search unshackles itself from the technical sturdiness of SEO development and provides a flattened landscape for content generation, as opposed to the topsy-turvy Google side of things. To ensure you make use of semantic search one needs to understand the three pillars upon which the idea is based.



What Is Semantics?


Semantics is paramount to ensure growth in any business - to have a clear idea of what the unique selling proposition (USP) of the setup is. Often market players, foray into battlegrounds without assessing their strengths, and the weaponry that will allow the maximum impact of their strengths. In a startup company, different teams may have different ideas of what the company does, which contributes to a vague definition of the business’ building blocks.

Why Semantics?


Apart from earning profits, there should be other aligned goals that you and your business have set out to achieve. Your business needs to compile a mission statement it enduringly strives to follow and accomplish.


How does it work?


Semantic search pushes forward the idea of connecting people, rather than simply connecting websites and web content. It is important the way you communicate, the style with which you communicate and the means you use to communicate with the audience with a view of increasing credibility and profits. Simple it may sound, this his hard craft to pull that promises outcomes that are rewarding in the longer run.

Some points to take into consideration while generating your content


SEO Is No Longer Essential


In the new era of content development, SEO practices are going out of the picture. As content is being produced and interacted with, over social domains, handheld gadgets, pocket-apps, the traditional way of generating content for desktop searches has become outdated. SEO may not completely be obsolete as majority of the world still works from their workstations, but content moderators and optimizers are required to work at a level, deeper than ever before.


Keywords are relics, Quality is critical


Generating content around a handful of keywords to increase traffic and audience has become an outdated practice. Semantic search ensures content is filtered in smarter, more humane manners. It is therefore, critical and perhaps undeniably the most important feature that your content. Be original and promise quality at par with your immediate competitors, if not better.


Social Has Everything To Do With SEO


This is a recurring theme. Social media web and otherwise is booming. People are meeting each other at the push of a button, or a swipe of their thumbs. This paradigm forms the skeleton of what your content should cater to. Your content should be a social marker, as much as any of the personal profiles, accounts, or information of the audience you target is.


Visual Content Supersedes the Written


Perhaps, one fact that does not need retelling is that the common person out there likes his dose of content, picturesque, with sound and verbal adage as compared to written content which turns the end of the rope, the other way, asking its audience to put on their concentration hats and pull with whatever solitary time they have.


Author Bio:

A Singapore based IT consultancy company, APIXEL IT Services, has been operational for over 8 years from now. The Apixel provides best Cloud Computing Services with unlimited packages that includes small business server setup, network management and data security & theft prevention. The company also provides expert IT consultancy to SMEs in Singapore.

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