Bill Slawski

With more than 26 years of SEO experience and a Juris Doctor Degree, Bill Slawski is the foremost expert on Google’s patents as related to SEO. Patent Exploration is one of the quickest and most detailed ways to find new information about 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, Search Engine Land, and Search Engine Journal. In 2014-2021, he spoke at industry-leading international 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

Recent Posts by Bill Slawski

Structured Data in Search

Structured Data in Search

Increased Role for Structured Data at Google Recently I wrote about Trust Metrics at Google, which...
Trust Metrics at Google

Trust Metrics at Google

Looking at Trust Metrics at Google Trust! What role might it have in ranking pages at...
Will Microsoft Start Displaying Entity Information in Browsers?

Will Microsoft Start Displaying Entity Information in Browsers?

A patent from the Software and Search Engine Company, Microsoft, shows a new way to display...
Working Related Entities Into Sites

Working Related Entities Into Sites

Microsoft Is Focusing On Entities, Too It is interesting comparing Google and Bing. Microsoft was granted...
Conversational Search Queries at Google (Context from Previous Sessions)

Conversational Search Queries at Google (Context from Previous Sessions)

If you remember when the Hummingbird Update was announced at Google's 15th birthday, they also displayed...
User Click Through Rates and Search Result Rankings at Google

User Click Through Rates and Search Result Rankings at Google

Does Google look at User Click-Through Rates and User Behavior to Influence Search Rankings? Google Spokespeople...
Entity Normalization As Part of Google's Knowledge Graph

Entity Normalization As Part of Google’s Knowledge Graph

Entity Normalization Was Developed as Part of Google's Annotation Framework Googlebot crawls the web and collects...
Add to Your Style Guide Annotation Text: Anchor Text Indexing

Add to Your Style Guide Annotation Text: Anchor Text Indexing

Running a Style Guide One thing I've run across and have recommended in the past has...
Entity Extractions for Knowledge Graphs at Google

Entity Extractions for Knowledge Graphs at Google

< Google May use entity extractions, entity classes, entity properties, and Association Scores from Pages to...
Does Google Use Schema to Write Answer Passages for Featured Snippets?

Does Google Use Schema to Write Answer Passages for Featured Snippets?

Answer Passages and Featured Snippets There hasn't been an answer to this question about featured snippets...
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