{"id":9943,"date":"2018-12-27T17:11:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T17:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/?p=9943"},"modified":"2019-12-27T22:21:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T21:21:12","slug":"seo-trends-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/seo-trends-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 5 SEO Trends to Watch in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conversational AI at the center of your content strategy!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>2019 will be the year of <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"How to optimize your website for voice search\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/optimize-website-voice-search\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/how_to_optimize_your_website_for_voice_search;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Voice_search\" >voice search<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span>. This article\u00a0explores how <strong>conversational AI\u00a0<\/strong>and voice queries are\u00a0driving the top SEO trends for this year.<\/p>\n<h3>What are the top trends for SEO in 2019?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trends for SEO in 2019, one way or another, are linked with the growth of <\/span><b>conversational AI, voice queries <\/b>and<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0the emergence of<strong> <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\". Even better,\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/knowledge-graph\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/knowledge_graph;https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q33002955\" >knowledge graphs<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0Here are <strong>the top 5 trends<\/strong> you need to watch in 2019:<\/p>\n<p>?\u00a0<a href=\"#user-intents\">1.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conversational user intents and long-tail keywords<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n?\u00a0<a href=\"#featured-snippets\">2. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Featured snippets and answer boxes<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n?\u00a0<a href=\"#structured-data\">3. Structured data and knowledge graphs<\/a><br \/>\n?\u00a0<a href=\"#googlenews\">4. Google News Optimization and Content Discovery<\/a><br \/>\n?\u00a0<a href=\"#speed\">5. Technical SEO for less complicated and faster websites<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&#8217;re already living in a world where <\/span><b><i>13% of Google searches are voice queries<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (here is a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/econsultancy.com\/the-future-of-voice-search-2020-and-beyond\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">good article to read by Rebecca Sentance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on what the future of voice search holds for us). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The very enthusiastic supporters of the voice search bandwagon might even say that by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2020 one every two searches will come from voice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but predictions, as we know, are very hard to make especially in the marketing world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What we have seen for sure in 2018 is that voice search is shaping the entire SEO industry. As <a href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/seo-management-service\/\">SEO Expert<\/a> Aleyda Solis pointed out recently, <\/span><b>voice search is driving \u201ca bigger shift\u201d, from specific \u201cresults\u201d to \u201canswers\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that become part of a continuous \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">conversational search journey<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Artificial Intelligence, though, is the real enabler behind this transition. It was back in December 2016 when, Andrew NG Chief Scientist at Baidu at the time, predicted that <\/span><b>speech-recognition accuracy going from 95% to 99<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">%, would have moved the needle in terms of mass adoption of voice interfaces.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As speech-recognition accuracy goes from 95% to 99%, we&#8217;ll go from barely using it to using all the time! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TfjqJLDTPJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/TfjqJLDTPJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewYNg\/status\/809579698883727360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of today <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"structured data\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/machine-learning\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/machine_learning;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Machine_learning;https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q2539\" >machine learning<\/a> and semantic networks are being constantly used to provide a personalised user experience across a multitude of channels, to guide the user across different tasks (from driving directions, to cooking, from podcast discovery to news reading and &#8220;listening&#8221;) and to help us find what matters the most. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2018 we witnessed <\/span><b>knowledge graphs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span> entering the <b>Gartner hype cycle as emergent technology<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span> forming the bridge between <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">humans<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">knowledge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span> and <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">conversational AI<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span>. In 2018 not only researchers and universities, but also industry companies have been heavily investing in knowledge graphs and not only Amazon with its product graph, Facebook with the Graph API, IBM with Watson, Microsoft with Satori and Google with its own Knowledge Graph but also Internet startups like Airbnb, Zalando and many others have committed resources for the creation of functional knowledge graphs meant to support general-purpose reasoning, inference and above all <b>an improved search experience<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In conclusion, <\/span><b>we don\u2019t expect the entire world to shift to voice but we can predict that conversational AI and a combination of voice and touch interactions will drive SEO in 2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2019 SEOs and marketers have to prepare for a more <\/span><b>human-driven and conversational web<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Voice search will not disrupt every business but it is <\/span><b>a driving force in the entire content marketing sector<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The 2019 trends for SEO, one way or another, are linked with the growth of <\/span><b>conversational AI<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span> and the emergence of knowledge graphs.<br \/>\n<a name=\"user-intents\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. Conversational user intents and long-tail keywords<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Focusing on the user intent is going to be strategic. We expect that the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">user search intents<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will be likely expressed in <\/span><b>a more advanced range of sophisticated conversational queries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Focusing on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">long-tail keywords<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that target a specific user (in a specific context) will be simpler (and wiser in most cases) than going after a broad keyword. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When and if, we decide to go broad and to target a more general intent (ie. &#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">business model<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span>&#8220;) we shall provide enough structure (and data) to help users (and machines) <b>find the winning answer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span> by further refining the initial request as if they were having a dialogue with the website (&#8220;<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you interested in the business model of Apple or of a startup?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine preparing content as if the user would be always asking their questions to a Google Home or another voice-first device. We need to prepare all the possible answers that a conversation around that topic might trigger. We need to guide the user from the initial request to a deeper discovery of the available content and we need to match the format the user is looking for (some might like to activate a video, while others might prefer a long-format article). \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"featured-snippets\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. Featured snippets and answer boxes<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a result of the information overload, and due to the growth of queries carried out via smart speakers (statistics talk about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/econsultancy.com\/the-state-of-smart-speaker-voice-search-in-2018\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">26.4 million daily voice queries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) machines will constantly need to sum up a vast amount of information, find what is really relevant for us and provide a decent speakable version of our content. While parsing language remains one of the grand challenges of artificial intelligence good results are today being achieved by Google Featured Snippets, Bing Expanded Answer and the alike. Visibility across the SERP and throughout the <\/span><b>AI-first user experience<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span> is very much dependent on answer boxes and featured snippets. Once again, this is currently an aspect of SEO that involves mobile as well as the desktop but it is fueled by the growth of conversational AI. We shall prepare content that can be <b>easily summarised and read aloud;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> we also need to\u00a0<\/span><b>leverage on structured data<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span> to <b>help machines disambiguate the context<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and to support the meaningful summarization of it.<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"structured-data\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. Structured data and knowledge graphs<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linked data, knowledge graphs and schema markup helps us connect content with a specific search intent using usage patterns that are now embedded in the search experience. A vast variety of Google SERP features are already dependent on structured data and more will come in 2019. Here below a quick overview highlighting in blue the SERP features that are linked with the use of structured data.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9950\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9950\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9950\" src=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-1.png\" alt=\"Google Search Features powered by Structured Data\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-1.png 960w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-1-288x163.png 288w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-1-150x84.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Search Features\u00a0(the original list is from BrightEdge) in blue items that have some connection with schema markup.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Structured data is foundational in the conversational era<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as it provides well-defined information for a wide range of encoded user intents. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Machine learning needs to be trained across a vast amount of semantically relevant datasets<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span>. This is true for commercial search engines, for smart assistants and for our own internal user experience &#8211; once again <b>our website needs to become capable of answering to specific intents <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by guiding the user where it matters the most. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9953\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9953\" src=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk.png\" alt=\"When was Andrea Volpini born?\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk.png 960w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-288x163.png 288w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-150x84.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Knowledge Graph Entities are being used by the Google Assistant for answering simple questions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a name=\"googlenews\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4. Google News optimization\u00a0<\/span>and content discovery<\/h3>\n<p><b>Pre-emptive knowledge delivery<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>content discovery <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have been a trend for a few years now. This basically means helping users discover content in a serendipitous way and without searching for. In September 2018 Google introduced <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/search\/feed-your-need-know\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Google feed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to surface relevant content [&#8230;], even when you\u2019re not searching for<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being able to predict the information need in a queryless way is a major focus in Google\u2019s future of Search and it will be strategic for all major consumer brands (Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple). If we focus on Google alone we can see that, content being proposed in <\/span><b>Google Discover<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is made of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">three types<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">youtube videos and fresh visual content<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span>, <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">evergreen content like recipes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">news articles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. As we have seen in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/top-stories-carousel-checklist\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">checklist to optimize for Google Top Stories<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> being present in Google News has become an important asset since the explosion of the fake news scandal (Google News content represent a selection of somehow validated and authoritative content that Google &#8211; and other players &#8211; can trust). While not all websites are eligible for Google News, if you are producing fresh content for your industry this is definitely a time to consider Google News as a new distribution channel. This becomes even more strategic these days since <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2018\/12\/google-is-launching-a-voice-driven-version-of-google-news-for-smart-speakers-and-phones\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an upcoming <\/span><b>voice-driven version of Google News for the Google Assistant<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"speed\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5. Technical SEO for less complicated and faster websites<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 20 years we failed in building a simpler Web. Websites are becoming more and more complicated with an endless number of (sometimes useless) routines that run every time a browser hits the\u00a0first page. I am not going to get into the topic but there is a brilliant article that you should read to learn about the importance of simplicity and why (the article is titled <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/blog\/bullshit-web\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bullshit Web<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is by Nick Heer a front-end developer from Canada) we now have to invest on\u00a0<\/span><b>technical SEO<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span>. Once again <b>the key aspect in technical SEO<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span> &#8211; in relation with the conversation AI &#8211; <b>is speed<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>As highlighted in a study done this year by Backlinko &#8211;\u00a0content that is brought into the Google Assistant is <b>only the content that renders super fast<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9957\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9957\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9957\" src=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-2.png\" alt=\"A Voice Search study by Backlinko\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-2.png 960w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-2-288x163.png 288w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Getting-Ready-for-Voice-Search_-How-To-Make-Your-Website-Talk-2-150x84.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Voice Search study by Backlinko on the importance of page speed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Page Speed has effectively become a mobile ranking factor as announced by Google this last July and will continue to impact on SERP features (featured snippets, top stories etc.) \u00a0and voice search in 2019. Another major aspect that we expect to keep on driving organic growth is the support for <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"AMP\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/accelerated-mobile-pages\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/accelerated_mobile_pages;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Accelerated_Mobile_Pages;http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q25452619\" >Accelerated Mobile Pages<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Search in 2019, besides these key 5 trends, will be once again about <strong>building relationships<\/strong>, <strong>providing valuable answers to people needs<\/strong><\/span> and <strong>keeping the audience at the very center<\/strong> of the content strategy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By\u00a0<strong>creating exceptional content<\/strong><\/span> and using artificial intelligence tools for SEO you\u00a0will keep your website ahead of the curve!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Still have a question? Want to go in-depth with more insights and tips? <a href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/book-a-demo\/\">Book a call<\/a>\u00a0with us and get ready to <strong>dominate SEO in 2019<\/strong>!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversational AI at the center of your content strategy! 2019 will be the year of voice search. This article\u00a0explores how conversational AI\u00a0and voice queries are\u00a0driving the top SEO trends for this year. What are the top trends for SEO in 2019? 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