Eminent SEO News: Team Eminent Goes to Space … Kinda
We’ve been able to let our inner nerd out so far this month! Not only was May the 4th a pretty big day at the Eminent office – thanks to “Star Wars Day” – but we went as a team to see the new “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” the following day.
And the day after, many of us went to the Chris Rock stand-up show in downtown Phoenix! We would share a few photos from it but … we couldn’t use our phones in the venue because apparently the show was being taped for a Netflix special.
So that’s how our month has gone so far. How about yours?
What’s New in SEO: Google’s New ‘Project Owl’ Aims to Make Search Answers More Reliable
Try as it might, Google has its work cut out for it when it comes to fighting back against web content that’s misleading or outright false.
Recently, the tech giant launched “Project Owl” to minimize the amount of fake news and problematic content that shows up in search results. Perhaps the best news in this new campaign is the fact users will get to play a role in weeding out the iffy content that occasionally shows up for certain search queries.
According to Search Engine Land, Google’s new attention to “problematic searches” will target content that is:
- Partially or entirely made up
- Heavily biased
- Based on rumors, conspiracies or myths
- Offensive
- Derogatory
Which Areas of Search Will ‘Project Owl’ Target?
Project Owl also aims to improve:
- Autocomplete search suggestions
- Featured snippet answers (the information that is prominently featured when you ask a very specific question in search)
- The visibility of authoritative content
To accomplish this, Google is taking new steps to identify and boost authoritative content, as well as opening feedback forms for users to opine on search suggestions and featured snippet answers.
For example, this is the form you can access if the search engine delivers a featured snippet for your query:
Google is on record saying these “problematic searches” only occur 0.25 percent of the time, but that still adds up to more than 1 million such occurrences each day. Let’s hope Project Owl elicits a better search experience for all of us, and don’t let your blog posts or website content get caught in the owl’s wrath!
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April Blog Article Roundup
Here are the must-see articles that went live on the Eminent SEO blog in April:
The Retail Online Shopping Experience Differs for Generation Z: Are You Ready?
Consumers demand choices, more than ever before. With Generation Z moving into the forefront of retail business owners’ minds (as they should), the face of the retail online shopping experience is only part of the larger picture.
Do the Fields of PR and SEO Overlap? A Closer Look at How One Can Strengthen the Other
There are a handful of different avenues a link builder can take, but the end goal is the same: to get a certain page or website to rank higher in the search results than those belonging to similar competitors.
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