♥14steve14 Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 Does anyone here know anything about Voice Search. With the increased popularity of voice search assistants should anything be done on websites to help with this type of search SEO. There is not that much information on line that I can find quickly so thought would see if any SEO experts have any links or ideas. I did find something that said Google would start to tailor searches towards voice assistants over mobile and laptops. Whats others views on this and is it something that store owners should be worrying about. REMEMBER BACKUP, BACKUP AND BACKUP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥JcMagpie Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 If you are already using SEO best practices, there’s very little if anything you need to do differently. If your not the get started! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥14steve14 Posted December 18, 2018 Author Share Posted December 18, 2018 I think there is a lot more to it than just leave it as it is and it will work fine. Over 50% of mobile searches are now done using voice. The questions asked are different to those that are typed because the way we talk is not the same as the way we type. Google is prioritising voice search, so we have to make sure our sites are up to scratch and ready now. Even google has a good page on the subject. https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2017/03/14/google-voice-search There is a good site here with excellent explanations https://backlinko.com/optimize-for-voice-search REMEMBER BACKUP, BACKUP AND BACKUP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥JcMagpie Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 😊 That’s cool everyone will have his or her own take on things. Go ask Google, I did hence the answer! Go use google tools to evaluate your current site they will tell you what needs improving. I bet you find you have more pressing concerns than worrying about google voice search. From your own article!. https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2017/03/14/google-voice-search "The good news is that if you’re utilizing current SEO best practices, there’s very little you need to do differently. The bad news is that if you aren’t utilizing current SEO best practices, you’ve got tons of work to do. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPhil Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Sigh. Between being too lazy to type a query, and going back to hieroglyphics (the use of emojis), I fear we are in End Times. That said, hopefully there's not too much to do to make any site ready for voice interaction. Does that include filling forms, scrolling, clicking links, zooming, etc.? I don't approve of it, except for use by the physically handicapped or in special cases (e.g., a mechanic with greasy hands using the Web to look up information), but I suppose it's going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥JcMagpie Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 As you would expect there is a plethora of so called experts blogs all offering advice on this subject. Having looked at Googles top 10 ( requested by voice “ok Google tell be what I need to do to get my website ready for voice search” 😂) and filtering the marketing bulls***t, out this is a summery of what they recommend, Most are “your 4 best ways to...” so I have listed from all. So I ask what new in this list? To be honest after article 10, I lost the will to live! 😂 1. Optimize for page speed 2. Secure your website with SSL 3. Create an FAQ page for your website 4. Create Short form content 5. Create long form content 6. Use simple words and short sentences 7. Be active on Social Media 8. Use Schema Metadata 9. Update your Google My Business Listing 10. Optimize Your Website’s Structured Data Markup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥ecartz Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 The biggest thing that you can do to help voice search is look at what search criteria are actually being used on your site and optimize for them. For example, if you have a lot of searches for blew dresses or fresh meet, make sure that those searches find things listed as blue dresses and fresh meat respectively. You should be doing this kind of thing anyway. But it would currently be focused on typos, like blu dresses or fresh met rather than homophones. Homophones are much more of a problem with voice search, as the voice parser may not always figure out what word is meant. The basic idea is that you track what searches returned no results. Look at them and understand why they failed. For example, if you sell clothes and get a search for fresh meat, that's simple user error that you can ignore. But an empty search for blew or blu dresses when you do have blue dresses is something that should be fixed. You can see this on Amazon and Google. They say something like "Showing results for blew dresses, but did you really mean blue dresses perhaps?" They link to the possible alternative and sometimes they show both results mixed together. When they mix them, they often link both alternatives. Always back up before making changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannisF Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 Thanks for sharing such a valuable piece of information! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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