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How to harness RankBrain for ecommerce websites

A step-by-step action plan to uncover user intent, deliver relevant results, and breakthrough the 12+ million ecommerce websites

By Atul Jindal · 03 Jan 2023

Industry

Google RankBrain: Clearing up the myths and misconceptions

It’s been nearly 3½ years since Google announced RankBrain, but we have little detail about how it works. Here's what we actually…

By Roger Rogerson · 05 Mar 2019

Content

5 UX tips for better SEO results

Unlike content and links, RankBrain is influenced by behavior metrics that indicate that users actually find a site to be useful --…

By Ayodeji Onibalusi · 30 Oct 2018

SEO

A cheat sheet to Google algorithm updates from 2011 to 2018

Google makes changes to its ranking algorithm almost every day. Some of them remain unnoticed, others turn the SERPs upside down. This…

By Aleh Barysevich · 10 Oct 2018

SEO

Is it important for SEO to rank first in 2018?

How important is it in 2018 to rank first in search rankings? Here’s everything you need to consider as SEO changes.

By Tereza Litsa · 17 Aug 2018

Industry

How to escape Google’s filter bubble

Over the years, Google has greatly increased the extent to which it tailors results to the user, with the aim of improving…

By Simon Ensor · 18 Aug 2017

SEO

How to optimize for user intent in search

User intent, also known as searcher intent, is a theory that unashamedly stands up to the more primitive pre-Penguin and Panda tactics…

By Simon Ensor · 31 Jul 2017

SEO

Here’s how RankBrain does (and doesn’t) impact SEO

In the past couple of weeks there has been a reinvigorated fervor surrounding artificial intelligence, with "AIO" (Artificial Intelligence Optimization) rearing its…

By Dan Taylor · 10 Jul 2017

Analytics

Does dwell time really matter for SEO?

What's the real impact of machine learning on SEO? This has been one of the biggest debates within SEO over the last…

By Larry Kim · 02 Feb 2017

Development

“Can machines think?” What humans need to learn about artificial intelligence

Maybe if we can define ‘can humans think?’ in a scientific way that we can all agree on, then we will have…

By Janet Bastiman · 17 Oct 2016

Content

How does RankBrain work and what does it mean for search marketers?

It’s hard to meet anyone in the digital industry who hasn’t heard about RankBrain. And it comes as no surprise that this…

By Yulia Khansvyarova · 13 Sep 2016

SEO

10 SEO tips to get your website to the top of Google search

There are hundreds of things you can do to top Google search, this is a list concentrating on the more recent SEO…

By Christopher Ratcliff · 17 Aug 2016

Content

How content marketers and SEO experts can optimize for RankBrain

Around October 2015, Google announced it would be using artificial intelligence to help deliver its search results. This machine-learning AI system is…

By Nikolay Stoyanov · 15 Aug 2016

PPC

RankBrain’s potential effect on your paid search campaigns

Just weeks ago, Google announced that it would be releasing improvements to its Dynamic Search Ads, making its targeting even more precise…

By Kevin Gamache · 20 Jul 2016

Analytics

Do bounce rates affect a site’s search engine ranking?

Bounce rates and how they affect a website’s ranking on Google has been discussed, dissected, and dismembered over and over again.

By Adam Stetzer · 04 May 2016

Industry

Smarter digital assistants and the future of search

The dream of an ultimate personal assistant isn’t a farfetched sci-fi fantasy like the interactive computing systems in Star Trek. It’s technology…

By Steve Sirich · 25 Apr 2016

Industry

WebPromo’s Q&A with Google’s Andrey Lipattsev [transcript]

We've partnered with WebPromo to bring you a transcript of their entire one-hour long Google Q&A, where its top three ranking signals…

By Christopher Ratcliff · 06 Apr 2016

Industry

Okay, now Google’s Artificial Intelligence Division is just showing off

One day, when you pull out your smartphone to ask Google or Siri a question, instead of returning a list of search…

By Adam Stetzer · 30 Mar 2016

SEO

Google reveals its three most important ranking signals

We’ve already heard that RankBrain, Google’s artificial intelligence system, is the "third most important signal contributing to the result of a search…

By Christopher Ratcliff · 24 Mar 2016

PPC

RankBrain Judgment Day: four SEO tactics you’ll need to survive

The way 30 trillion web pages are ranked changed forever on October 26, 2015. That's when the world became aware of RankBrain,…

By Larry Kim · 21 Mar 2016

Content

What performance marketers need to know about Google Knowledge Graph

Last week artificial intelligence achieved another victory over humankind. Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program won 4-1 against Lee Sedol, one of the best…

By Oliver Wood · 17 Mar 2016