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

Schema.org Extensions and Entities

Schema.org Extensions and Entities

Schema.org is a joint effort between Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex to help people create and...
Google to Warn you When Something You're Sharing on Google+ Has Been Shared Before?

Google to Warn you When Something You’re Sharing on Google+ Has Been Shared Before?

I've been keeping an eye out for patents from Google that look like they describe how...
How Google May Interpret Queries Based on Locations and Entities (Tested)

How Google May Interpret Queries Based on Locations and Entities (Tested)

I like visiting small towns and exploring their history. I grew up near Princeton, New Jersey,...
How Location May Influence Search Results in Google

How Location May Influence Search Results in Google

Search engines like Google or Bing or Yahoo often respond to searches with lists of web...
Entity Recognition In Queries at Google

Entity Recognition In Queries at Google

Entity Recognition is Becoming More Important at Google Google replaced its head of search, Amit Singhal...
Where Did In-Depth Articles Go in Google Search Results?

Where Did In-Depth Articles Go in Google Search Results?

In August of 2013, Google introduced a search feature they called In-Depth articles, writing about them...
Classifying Queries as Entity Triggering Queries or Description Triggering Queries

Classifying Queries as Entity Triggering Queries or Description Triggering Queries

When Google answers queries from searchers, it may first classify the queries it responds to when...
Google acquires Wireless Patents from Alcatel-Lucent

Google acquires Wireless Patents from Alcatel-Lucent

[caption id="attachment_3622" align="alignnone" width="492"] Alexander Graham Bell facing his wife, Mabel Hubbard Gardiner Bell, who is...
Will Google+ Introduce Activities and Recommendations?

Will Google+ Introduce Activities and Recommendations?

I enjoy Google+, the social network that Google launched in 2011 that has gone through a...
New Google Freshness-Based Ranking Patent

New Google Freshness-Based Ranking Patent

Rankings for pages in search results might be boosted or demoted based upon a decision by...
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