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Taming the Hummingbird Performance Marketing Insights Berlin, 2014
Jan-Willem Bobbink - @jbobbink #PMIEUR http://bit.ly/pmi-hummingbird
WHO SAW IT COMING?
ALGORITHM UPDATE
“ACCORDING TO GOOGLE, THIS NEW ALGORITHM IMPACTS 90% OF ALL QUERIES”
90% OF
ALL SEARCH QUERIES!
GOOGLE STARTED USING HUMMINGBIRD ABOUT A MONTH AGO, IT SAID. GOOGLE ONLY ANNOUNCED TODAY.
ADJUSTMENTS WERE ALREADY LIVE FOR MULTIPLE WEEKS
Performance Marketing Insights Berlin, 2014
Director of SEO @ Acronym Media – Blogging at www.notprovided.eu
WHAT CHANGED?
WHY SO MUCH CONFUSION?
Back to the basics
CONVERSATIONAL SEARCH EVEN MORE AWESOME!
That’s the knowledge graph!
"Hummingbird is focused more on ranking information based on a more intelligent understanding of search requests, unlike its predecessor, Caffeine, which was targeted at better indexing of websites."
GOOGLE: “TRY TO UNDERSTAND” RELATIONS
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?
REWRITING THE QUERIES
HOW ABOUT ORGANIC RESULTS? [how old is the president of the United States, Barack Obama]
Biography is not in the query!
HOW ABOUT ORGANIC RESULTS? [age obama]
Keyword based!? [age obama]
RESULTING IN MORE RELEVANT SERPS
Semantically, related phrases will be those that are commonly used to discuss or describe a given topic or concept, such as “President of
the United States” and “White House.”
MONITOR SEO PATENTS
FIFA, ARE YOU WATCHING?
SEO PATENTS, NOT ONLY FOR THE NERDS!
- Learn from the past
- Predict future changes
- Get an idea about the inner working of search engines
- Get an idea what certain features take to exist
WHAT CAN YOU LEARN FROM PATENTS?
PREDECESSOR - 2004
PHRASE-BASED VS SINGLE KEYWORDS
KEYWORD BASED SCORING
“A document is retrieved in response to a query containing a number of
query terms, typically based on having some number of query
terms present in the document.”
Google research has shown that on more difficult queries, people start to type their searches as natural language questions. They also searched longer queries on average. This study also stated that, at the time of the study (2010), most of the time the question queries failed to give users the information they were looking for and they would revert back to keyword queries.
WHY DEVELOP HUMMINGBIRD?
DISTRIBUTION OF WEB SEARCH QUERIES [Lin et al. 2011]
THE HUMMINGBIRD PATENT?
REVISING SEARCH QUERIES
http://www.google.com/patents/US8538984
IT’S ALL ABOUT CONCEPTS
“The goal is that pages matching the meaning do better, rather than pages
matching just a few words.”
CAR VERSUS AUTO
CAR VERSUS AUTO
FULL QUESTION NOT NEEDED
Already filed by Google in 2005
DETERMINING QUERY TERM SYNONYMS WITHIN QUERY CONTEXT
http://www.google.com/patents/US7636714
HOW IS THE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH WORKING?
HOW ABOUT SCALE?
-YAGO: 10 million entities and 120 million facts -Freebase: 37 million topics, 1,998 types, and more than 30,000 properties
- DBpedia: 3.77 million things, 2.35 million classified in Ontology, including:
- 764,000 persons, 573,000 places, - 333,000 creative works, 192,000 organizations, - 202,000 species and 5,500 diseases. -111 languages, together 20.8 million things
Source: WSDM’14 conference, http://ejmeij.github.io/entity-linking-and-retrieval-tutorial/
INTERNATIONAL DIFFERENCES
CURRENT STATUS
GOOGLE.DE (GERMAN)
GOOGLE.ES (SPANISH)
GOOGLE.NL (DUTCH)
KNOWLEDGE GRAPH LOCALISED?
German Spanish Dutch
GOOGLE.DE (GERMAN)
GOOGLE.NL (DUTCH)
PRERENDERED QUERIES?
HOW CAN YOU DEAL WITH HUMMINGBIRD?
AS AN AFFILIATE?
HUMMINGBIRD MYTHS
GOOGLE KNOWS WHAT QUALITY IS
ADD MORE TEXT TO YOUR PAGES
LITERALLY ADD MORE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
TEXTS IN THE FORM OF QUESTIONS
PUT MORE FOCUS ON LONGTAIL!
OK, LETS TURN IT AROUND
SRC: Searchmetrics.com 2014 US Ranking factors study
DETERMINE TARGET AUDIENCE
DEFINE INTENTION PER PERSONA
BUILD ENTITY SPECIFIC PAGES Using natural and semantically rich language:
Use entities in copy: 5 facts you have to know about Jan-Willem Bobbink being in Berlin at Performance marketing Insights
Entity attributes: 1987, Utrecht, SEO, Acronym, Physics etc.
So start with attribute stuffing instead of keyword stuffing
ORGANISE YOUR PAGES TOPICALLY
ENTITY BASED KEYWORD RESEARCH
GENERATE SYNONYM LISTS
http://www.performancemarketinginsights.com/14/europe/agenda/2/
SRC: http://www.alchemyapi.com/
Use Google’s Freebase API
https://developers.google.com/freebase/
RELATE CONTENT TO ENTITY
SRC: http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/knowledge-graph-optimization
sameAS EXAMPLE
GET LINKS FROM SEMANTICALLY RELEVANT SOURCES
http://semantic-link.com/#/berlin
FILL FREEBASE WITH RELEVANT INFORMATION
Google may present better SERPs also in terms of better ads
FROM ADVERTISING PERSPECTIVE
How to get in their?
HOW DOES GOOGLE DECIDE ON SOURCE?
SRC: Bill Slawski http://www.seobythesea.com/2013/05/google-knowledge-graph-results/
HOW TO DEAL WITH KNOWLEDGE GRAPH?
NO PATTERN FOUND YET
GOOGLE GETTING YOUR TRAFFIC?
https://class.coursera.org/nlangp-001
https://www.coursera.org/course/nlp
PDF: HTTP://NLP.STANFORD.EDU/IR-BOOK/PDF/IRBOOKPRINT.PDF
If you are interested in Natural language processing, read it:
AN INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT
ENTITY RETRIEVAL AND LINKING?
http://ejmeij.github.io/entity-linking-and-retrieval-tutorial/
Questions? Don’t hesitate to ask! Or find me at the bar
http://bit.ly/pmi-hummingbird & @jbobbink
Image Credits Thanks for the images!
http://community.qlik.com/blogs/theqlikviewblog/2013/02/21/visualizations-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-of-understanding http://asset5.instanthumour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/is-google-boy-or-girl-2.jpg https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQovn4u6HtBbDB6uceJQLk7WyBNvRFKQLt2lYxF3gy94HRzosYG Images: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130815124007/transformers-legends/images/c/c4/Triple-facepalm.jpg http://www.verticalresponse.com/blog/how-to-find-your-target-market/ http://footage.shutterstock.com/clip-2399522-stock-footage-reading-a-book-or-bible.html http://www.searchengineguide.com/matt-bailey/keyword-strategies-the-long-tail.php Europe: http://www.ezilon.com/maps/images/Europe-physical-map.gif Devices: http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/search/assets/img/devices-preview.png Postcard: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AmitSinghal/posts/AtndBA1pzNg Entity: http://www.entitythemovie.com/gallery Cutts meme: http://www.jacobking.com/affiliate-link-cloaking