It’s time to think of the future of SEO. What should we focus on? It’s time to find out more about entities and how they affect our SEO strategies.
Brighton SEO is an exciting conference for everyone who wants to find out more about the latest trends and tactics in all things SEO. No matter how experienced you are, there’s always a session to inspire you to try out new ideas.
Greg Gifford, Vice President of Search at Wikimotive, talked about entities and the future of SEO.
Defining entities for SEO
Google is considering an entity a thing or concept that is singular, unique, well-defined, and distinguishable. In fact, according to Greg Gifford, entities are the most important concept in SEO.
It was back in 2012 that Google moved to entity search. Real-world entities and their relationships started being ranking signals. A year later, Google started focusing on the semantics to make its ranking algorithm[1] smarter. Then we found out in 2015 that ranking search results started being based on entity metrics.
Thus, it’s time to start focusing more on entities and how they affect our SEO.
It’s useful to remember then that every site consists of numerous entities. The internal links are simply the relationships between entities. Our content is simply made up of entities and their relationships.
The future of search
When thinking of the future of search, we need to keep in mind that Google is becoming smarter.
Here are Gifford’s tips that will future-proof your SEO strategy[2]:
- The ranking will be more about real-world signals. This means that we need to explore the right balance