Bill Slawski
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With more than 24 years of SEO experience and a Juris Doctor Degree, Bill is the foremost expert on Google’s patents as related to SEO. Bill is the Editor of SEO by the Sea, a prominent search engine optimization blog, where he is the author of over 1,300 posts.
Bill’s experience includes Fortune 500 brands and some of the largest websites in the world. Bill is a contributing author for Moz and Search Engine Land. In 2014-2019, he spoke at industry leading conferences about topics including search engine algorithms, universal and blended search, personalization in search, search and social, and duplicate content problems, structured data, and schema
A Native Application Vertical Search Engine at Google
Google was granted a patent last week that is about a search engine that can do keyword searches (or find an entity) for an application vertical search engine on mobile devices that can cover such things as: (i) Personal content such as contacts, messages, call history, documents, notes, calendar events, or the like (ii) Application-specific […]
How Google May Classify Offensive Content
Sometimes Some Words May Be Offensive or Non-Offensive Based on How They Are Used In some parts of the World, the word “Shag” describes an activity that some people might find offensive. I grew up in a home where we didn’t use that meaning of that word and had shag carpeting in many rooms. It […]
How Google May Answer Better Questions by Rewriting Questions
One of the tasks that Google has set out to do recently is to respond to answer-seeking queries as I wrote about in the post, What are Good Answers for Queries that Ask Questions? Sometimes a query is best answered by a list of links to documents that can be found on the web (i.e. […]
Google Returning Video Search Results Using Machine Learning?
Problems with Video Search Results An area that may cause problems for searchers is when a search may be looking for a video in response to a query. A Google Patent that was just recently granted that describes some aspects of how Google may be responding to queries that surface video search results. The patent […]
Human-Friendly Driving Directions Based Upon Personalized Landmarks
Google keeps information about your Mobile Location History and the places that you visit. It may remember those places and use them as personalized landmarks in the directions that it shows you in the future. It may also boost those places in Maps search results when it shows them to you. Human Friendly Driving Directions […]
What are Good Answers for Queries that Ask Questions?
Elements of Answer-Seeking Queries and Elements of Answers Google was recently granted a patent focusing on answer-seeking queries and providing good answers to such queries. Having an idea of what the elements of answer-seeking queries are can help people understand what they might need to publish to provide answers to those queries. So, it can […]
How Google May Choose Answers to How-to Queries
How Google May Respond to How-To Queries https://gofishdigital.com/google-how-to-queries/ Google has published a patent on how they might handle how-to queries Make sure to also read the Google Developer’s page about How to Use HowTo structured data, for information specifically about how Google recommends developers implement How-to Structured Markup. That page defines the purpose of How-to […]
How an Automated Assistant May Respond to Queries from Children
We’ve been seeing a few patents from Google about how their automated assistant works. Recent Posts I’ve written about those patents include: April 4, 2019 – Conversational Search Queries at Google (Context from Previous Sessions) – How Google may tag content to make it easier to respond to conversational queries, using contextual data from previous […]
Google Using Website Representation Vectors to Classify with Expertise and Authority
Added (2020-02-23) Questions and Answers: I have been asked a few questions about this patent and had some things about it pointed out to me, that I wanted to address. 1. The “Medic” update – that Barry Schwartz named in August of 2018 because it appeared to affect medical websites, also impacted other types of […]
Google Helping Identify Semantic Entities in Audio
The Automated Assistant Always Listens for Semantic Entities I keep an eye out for Google publishing about entities in search, in patents or papers, or even tweets. A new patent application covers something that many people with android phones might be familiar with, but may not have seen anything official from Google about it. I […]