How to optimize for user intent in search

User intent . Also known as searcher intent, it is a theory that unashamedly stands up to the more primitive pre-Penguin and Panda tactics of optimizing purely for keywords. User intent and optimizing for it has come into being via a combination of three key factors: Latent Semantic Indexing , Hummingbird , Rankbrain . All have fantastic and mysterious sounding names but all underpinned by the fact that Google’s algorithm is not exactly made up of high school algebra. Google is clever, real clever. The algorithm understands more than just the specific keywords that a user types into the […]

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