I wanted to create an audio resource to learn about search patents – the kind I would have found useful when I was studying them back in 2012. So I welcomed Bill Slawski – who has been reading and writing about search patents for almost 10 years – back to Experts to discuss more patents and SEO ranking factors.
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Show Agenda & Timestamps
- What’s the connection or difference between co-occurring density and LSI? [2:23]
- Query Rewriting Patents [4:42]
- How Google May Rewrite Your Search Terms [5:19]
- Concept of Query Rewriting [6:00]
- Removing Substitution Rules Patent [6:49]
- Why does Google want to be able to rewrite queries [8:23]
- Freebase [10:00]
- What can SEOs do to optimize for query rewrites & Context Based Search Patent [12:51]
- Universal Search [16:19]
- David Bailey’s patent about Universal Search [19:05]
- Universal Search and SEO [20:13]
- Venice Update [21:42]
- Leveraging Universal Search or Adjusting Expectations [23:36]
- High Quality Search Patents [25:43]
- Search Bias Document Set [28:36]
- Does Google Recognize when someone is an SEO [31:40]
- Ranking Search Results Patent [33:02]
- How to keep track of Patent continuations, how do patents relate to each other [34:46]
- Anchor Text in the Panda Update [36:42]
- Meta Data Versus Content On The Page [38:30]
- Back to Anchor Text in Panda [39:28]
- Context Vectors – RankBrain [42:06]
- Associating Entity with Search Query (Autocomplete) [42:39]
- Brand Search Volume [44:44]
- Hummingbird Patent [50:47][Sponsor] [55:59]
- RankBrain [1:00:46]
- Site Speed as a Ranking Signal [1:05:44]
- Impact of the Network Connection on Loading of the Resource [1:09:43]
- Page Speed Tips [1:10:48]
- Bill’s Website’s Robot TXT file [1:16:26]
- Bill’s Opinion on Blog Comments [1:19:54]
- URL Structure [1:23:04]
- Where to find Bill online [1:28:38]
Patent Curation on SEO By The Sea
Patent Articles Discussed (Part Two)
- Query Rewriting
- 10 Blue Links To Universal Search
- High-Quality Search Patents
- Panda (the person) Patent
- Context Vectors (The RankBrain Patent?)
- How Google May Map An Entity For Suggestions
- The Hummingbird Patent
- Search Quality Refinements
- PageSpeed Patent
Other Resources & Links Mentioned
- Onpage.org (now Ryte) and SEOlyze (to analyze n-grams)
- Bill’s funky robots.txt file
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Where To Find Bill Slawski
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