The document discusses optimizing content for conversational search queries on voice assistants. It recommends identifying questions as conversational queries, optimizing content to directly answer questions in short snippets, and monitoring whether content appears in voice search results like Google's featured snippets and the Assistant.
How to Optimize for a Conversational Search? #RIMC19
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How to
Optimize for
Conversational
Search?
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Voice search seems to be everywhere now
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But no, voice is
not expected to
eat visual search
and kill SEO
UGH
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People are using voice but mostly for some
type of simple action driven queries
HTTPS://WWW.THINKWITHGOOGLE.COM/CONSUMER-INSIGHTS/VOICE-ASSISTANCE-PARENT-USERS/
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Most of assistants requests at the moment are for
to-dos, managing the calendar, doing simple tasks
HTTPS://WWW.THINKWITHGOOGLE.COM/CONSUMER-INSIGHTS/VOICE-ASSISTANCE-PARENT-USERS/
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A high share of queries
require a visual output
to satisfy users,
especially in the decision
making process
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Google also don’t think everything will shift to voice as
half of the assistant interactions are of voice + touch
HTTPS://WWW.BLOG.GOOGLE/PERSPECTIVES/SCOTT-HUFFMAN/FIVE-INSIGHTS-VOICE-TECHNOLOGY/
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That’s the reason why we
now have smart displays too
HTTPS://WWW.BLOG.GOOGLE/PRODUCTS/ASSISTANT/FIRST-SMART-DISPLAYS-GOOGLE-ASSISTANT-ARE-NOW-AVAILABLE-STORES/
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Voice is an aspect of a new conversational search
context that SEO needs to take into consideration
HTTPS://WWW.THINKWITHGOOGLE.COM/CONSUMER-INSIGHTS/VOICE-ASSISTANCE-PARENT-USERS/
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Welcome to the voice conversational search era
driven by the Google Assistant
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Where results become answers
of a conversation journey
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How can you identify
conversational queries
to target with your
site content?
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They are full questions, asked in natural language
HTTPS://WWW.THINKWITHGOOGLE.COM/
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People are now using the search assistants
as personal advisors
HTTPS://WWW.THINKWITHGOOGLE.COM/CONSUMER-INSIGHTS/PERSONAL-NEEDS-SEARCH-TRENDS/
Conversational First Person Immediate
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For real
HTTPS://WWW.THINKWITHGOOGLE.COM/CONSUMER-INSIGHTS/PERSONAL-NEEDS-SEARCH-TRENDS/
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Sad but shockingly true
HTTPS://WWW.THINKWITHGOOGLE.COM/CONSUMER-INSIGHTS/PERSONAL-NEEDS-SEARCH-TRENDS/
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Check the assistants’ voice commands
to identify query patterns to look for
HTTPS://WWW.CNET.COM/HOW-TO/GOOGLE-HOME-COMPLETE-LIST-OF-COMMANDS/
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What When Who
Where Why How
Most are informational queries,
starting with the 6Ws
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Go through your
existing search
queries looking for
these initial
questions patterns
GOOGLE SEARCH CONSOLE
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Look for first
person questions
or geo-modifiers
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Expand your top queries with those of your main
competitors including these questions patterns
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Look for Google’s
related keywords
and suggestions
KEYWORDS EVERYWHERE
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Do a keyword
research focused
on questions
based on all of
these to identify
opportunities
SISTRIX, SEMRUSH, KWFINDER
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How can you optimize
your content for these
conversational
queries?
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It’s about becoming the 1st search result answer
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For factual questions, these are usually “answer
boxes” powered by the knowledge graph…
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…or results from Google’s own services
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Featured snippets are then shown for more complex
questions, which are also usually used by the assistant
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Featured snippets are then shown for more complex
questions, which are also usually used by the assistant
“40.7% of all voice search answers came
from a Featured Snippet.”
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Questions, prepositions, and comparisons
dominate featured snippet results
HTTPS://WWW.SEMRUSH.COM/BLOG/HOW-TO-EARN-GOOGLE-FEATURED-SNIPPETS-MOBILE-STUDY/
Questions
52.57%
Prepositions
33.65%
Comparisons
28.64%
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These are usually targeted by FAQ, guides, resources
addressing informational queries in the customer journey
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They need to be already ranking well already
HTTPS://WWW.SEMRUSH.COM/BLOG/HOW-TO-EARN-GOOGLE-FEATURED-SNIPPETS-MOBILE-STUDY/
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The content should be organized in paragraphs,
lists or tables of certain length based on their type
HTTPS://WWW.SEMRUSH.COM/BLOG/HOW-TO-EARN-GOOGLE-FEATURED-SNIPPETS-MOBILE-STUDY/
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It should be well structured, easy to read content,
featured in a secure, mobile friendly page
HTTPS://WWW.SEMRUSH.COM/BLOG/HOW-TO-EARN-GOOGLE-FEATURED-SNIPPETS-MOBILE-STUDY/
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Take also into consideration the criteria used by the
Google Assistant to evaluate speech results quality
HTTPS://AI.GOOGLEBLOG.COM/2017/12/EVALUATION-OF-SPEECH-FOR-GOOGLE.HTML
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It’s about information satisfaction but also length,
formulation and potential elocution of your content
HTTPS://AI.GOOGLEBLOG.COM/2017/12/EVALUATION-OF-SPEECH-FOR-GOOGLE.HTML
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“usefulness of the
response, and for
audio responses, the
quality of the speech”
HTTPS://AI.GOOGLEBLOG.COM/2017/12/EVALUATION-OF-SPEECH-FOR-GOOGLE.HTML
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Use also the speakable structured data property
to specify your “speech friendly” content
HTTPS://DEVELOPERS.GOOGLE.COM/SEARCH/DOCS/DATA-TYPES/SPEAKABLE
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Check out SERoundtable example
HTTPS://WWW.SEROUNDTABLE.COM/LISTEN-TO-GOOGLE-SPEAKABLE-MARKUP-IN-ACTION-26169.HTML
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Even if you’re not a US news site elegible
to appear in news results it provides
criteria to follow to be “speech ready”
HTTPS://DEVELOPERS.GOOGLE.COM/SEARCH/DOCS/DATA-TYPES/SPEAKABLE
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Use the previous criteria to optimize content to be
concise & well structured, using headings and images
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Besides headings & images, you can use
lists & tables when relevant too
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Google selects the best structured & concise content
of the page that specifically answers the query
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Check which of your identified queries trigger featured
snippets and format their targeted content accordingly
AHREFS, SEMRUSH
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How can you monitor
your Website results
for conversational
queries?
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You can monitor if your site and competitors are already
shown in them, their type, for which query and page
SISTRIX, SEMRUSH, AHREFS
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You can do this also by
using your own rank
tracking software
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Verify if these are featured in the Google’s
Assistant results through the mobile app too
HTTPS://SUPPORT.GOOGLE.COM/ASSISTANT/ANSWER/7172657
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Assess their impact to identify and expand the best
performing queries also from a conversion perspective
SEOMONITOR
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It should be a win-win scenario for voice
answers and additional SERP visibility!
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How can you
additionally expand
your site presence
with the Google
Assistant with
Actions?
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The assistant doesn’t
only use Websites
content but also
Google Actions for
answers…
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Actions are conversational
applications that can be
triggered via the Google
Assistant directly or
through a matching intent
HTTPS://DEVELOPERS.GOOGLE.COM/ACTIONS/EXTENDING-THE-ASSISTANT
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Check the existing actions in your
sector with the Assistant Directory
HTTPS://ASSISTANT.GOOGLE.COM/EXPLORE
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Fashion ones, for example
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You can build one to
expand the distribution
of your site content as
well as complement its
functionality
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Like I did here, taking into consideration the simpler,
action driven requests made through voice
HTTP://WHYMYWEBTRAFFICDROPPED.COM/
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It works like this
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Google highly
facilitates Actions
development with
Actions Console
Projects
HTTPS://CONSOLE.ACTIONS.GOOGLE.COM/
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Along a complete documentation, demos and
tutorials to facilitate the development process
HTTPS://DEVELOPERS.GOOGLE.COM/ACTIONS/SAMPLES/
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It has an assistant
that will allow
you to choose your
action type
HTTPS://CONSOLE.ACTIONS.GOOGLE.COM/
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It will take you through the different Actions
development steps in the console
HTTPS://CONSOLE.ACTIONS.GOOGLE.COM/
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It will also give the option to build actions by using
Diagoflow or even with Google Docs based templates
HTTPS://DEVELOPERS.GOOGLE.COM/ACTIONS/TEMPLATES/
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Allowing to specify,
design, as well as
test your Action
content, including
how it will be
invoked
HTTPS://CONSOLE.ACTIONS.GOOGLE.COM/
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Actions can expand
your voice
discoverability,
allowing you to
better understand
your users voice
behavior too
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Optimizing for the new
conversational search
journey, addressing
voice queries
is possible, positive…
and not that bad
67. * SEO Consultant & Founder at Orainti
* SEO Speaker at +100 Events in +20 countries
* Crawling Mondays Host
* Author “SEO. Las Claves Esenciales.”
* Blogger in Search Engine Land & Search Engine Journal
* Featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Huffington Post
* European Search Personality of 2018
Thank you
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