What is Entity? Why is Entity so important to SEO?

At this point, there may be nothing better when you learn about SEO optimization with Entity. What I want to emphasize above is the importance of Entities in search. Now we will dive into how Entity can build your rankings in the future.

Entities, in my humble opinion, are the most important concepts to understand in SEO right now.

Consider this:

The three most important ranking factors, recognized by Google, are:

• Content – Content.
• Links – Links.
• Rankbrain

All of these areas have evolved since that revelation, but there’s a good chance that their shared importance remains.

Google’s Entity Definition

Entity is a thing, or a unique, well-defined and distinguishable concept.

I used to think of entities that are basically nouns (a person, place or thing). I was basically wrong, they go beyond that. An entity can be an idea, an adjective, a concept, etc. Anything can be uniquely identified. For example, red or the Pythagorean theorem or this article itself. Or the concept of the entities it discusses. Or a word on it. Or a letter in the word. Or a pixel in that letter. It can be everything.

It is important to understand that Entity does not need to be an object, it can also be colors, dates, ideas and more.

An entity is anything:

• Special / rare.
• Unique.
• Clearly defined.
• Distinguishable / Distinguishable.

What is Search Entity?

Search entity is a more accurate method for bots to understand user intent while mapping additional verified sources to respond to a search query.

One way of introducing entities is to realize that the Google Knowledge Graph is an entity chart and represents Google’s first step in using semantic search (or entity search).

Now let’s look back at these three ranking factors.

Content

Content, from an SEO perspective, is the connection of entities according to the relationship.

In the statement, SEO is Dead, there is an SEO entity, an entity is Dead and there are relationships that they connect with each other and the direction of the relationship.

All content is basically the same.

Link

Links, at their very core, are a connection between entities even before we (or Google) think of them as such.

They declare the relationship and direction between pages on the web. Those pages are entities that contain other entities.

Furthermore, the entity of the anchor text is connected through a relationship to a topic (also an entity) and that subject entity is then connected through a relationship that is oriented (linked) with the entity of the landing page.

RankBrain

RankBrain is not a ranking factor in the traditional sense. Its job is not to act as a signal but to adjust which signals carry weight.

For a query like [the best holiday], RankBrain will interpret which signals are most meaningful to produce the best results.

Time itself is an entity, its importance will be more important as a list from 2014, regardless of how many links (for example) it will be useless.

For a query like the American civil war, however, the entity of authority would be a more important factor than newness.

Basically, RankBrain itself simply determines which entity metrics and relationships are most important for a particular query.

What do we know about Entities?

Much of what we know about entities (or at least, what I know) comes from some patents, and from what makes sense.

Although patents often need to be read with a grain of salt, the patents I will refer to below are of great significance, and there is little doubt that they are integrated into Google’s systems.

That said, there are many ways Google can use these patents. So, I will not pretend that I know how specific. So, we will talk about them in general and in which direction they lead us.

Rank search results based on Entity data

Ranking search results based on entity data is the title of the Google patent. They were granted in 2015 and is the first patent for the entities I read. That was not the last time.

You can find my analysis of patents here but that’s a lot of reading and handling of formulas and in this article, we’ll save you and cut back the pursuit.

According to the patent, the ranking of entities for search involves considering four factors. They are pursuing:

1. Relation

Relevance is determined based on the same entities that occur. Basically, if two entities are regularly referenced on the web (for example, Donald Trump and the US President), you will get something like:

This is because they exist often enough together and on attributes that are authoritative enough to yield a single result. This same process joins other entities with the term as we diversify it:

Each of them is an entity and they are associated with the President entity and therefore, when the query is plural, we see them all.

2. Celebrities (Notability)

Google uses a fairly simple formula (in patent) to determine the significance of an entity. Avoid formulas, basically, it breaks down that the more valuable an entity (defined by things including links, reviews, mentions and relevance), the value of the category or owner. The lower the competition, the more reliable it is. On the surface, this may sound unreasonable, but basically, it means that if you are a big fish in a small pond, you have a higher level of attention than when you are the same. The fish swims in the ocean.

3. Contribution

Contributions are determined by external signals (e.g. links, reviews) and are basically a measure of the contribution of an entity to a topic. A review from a reputable and respected food critic will add to this metric rather than Dave’s praise for Yelp for the price for their physical contribution in the higher space.

4. Prizes

The prize data is exactly as it sounds, a measure of the various related awards an entity has received. This could be a Nobel Prize, an Oscar or an American search award. The type of the award determines its weight and the greater the prize, the higher the value associated with the entity in question.

When all is said and done, the process begins with the user requesting information about an entity.

I can enter Google [best actress].

Google then executes their process in this order:

• Determine the relevance of other entities and assign values.
• Identify the significance of those entities and assign a value to each entity.
• Determine the contribution figures of these entities and assign values.
• Identify any awards given to entities and assign a value.
• Determine the applicable weights each should be based on the type of query (sound familiar?)
• Determine the final score for each possible entity.
• Produce a SERP that looks like the following

Their algorithm is not perfect. But not bad.

Answer questions by using entity references in unstructured data

We are currently reviewing a patent granted in 2016.

This patent contains some powerful ideas and, thankfully, very easy to summarize.

Here are the things to do:

• Each entity is assigned a unique identifier. This will likely involve Google’s acquisition of Metaweb in 2010 (presented here by Bill Slawski).
• Identifying the most likely entity requested by the searcher can be accomplished by setting which entity appears the most in the top 10 results. For example, if someone searches for [dave davies] most of the top-ranking websites refer to the entity of guitarist Kinks. And that entity is used for things like the Knowledge panel.
• Having an entity database (entity database) To save Google from having to handle top results every time a query is run, the existing database simply stores entities and their connections. Think of it like a linked database, but to entities.
• Entities ranked by quality score may include newness, previous user choices, incoming links and possibly outgoing links. Remember, this is just a patent – don’t run out and link to every website you can find. I find that a part is not able to carry weight outside very specific situations.
• When a query for an entity is conducted, the relevance of other entities is determined for the result. To illustrate, for the query [dave davies], Google needs to determine which entity data is most important to it. The entity of the birthday is considered important, the entity of his brother, his band and some others are important enough to be the knowledge panel. That he was born eighth in the family is not important enough. This is not to say that the importance of entities is only related to the Knowledge panel, it is only one of the most visually obvious illustrations of it.
• Methods for Google to infer context for multiple entities with the same name. To use their example, there is the city of Philadelphia, cream cheese and film. If I ask a question where the question I am going to mention the city, the people who play roles in the game will be the movie, and what’s good with the good with lemon will be food. The answer, by the way, is lox, red onion and capers.
• This technique allows Google to identify entities and their relationships when the data is unstructured (refer to information without a predefined data model or organized in a defined way before).
• This method also allows Google to learn new entities.

With this technique, Google’s capabilities around learning about entities and their relationships become significantly stronger.

Combined with their advances in understanding natural language and machine learning and the importance of entities jumping even more forward.

An example of Entity “Dave Davies”

Consider that Dave’s name is an entity. In fact, ‘Dave Davies’ is an entity. In fact, there are four people in my city. And there are three are in this picture:

Each of these entities has a connection. They all have the name Dave Davies. There are some other similar characteristics. They will all have male gender and the number of intersections but the way they differ is much larger. And that is where entities come in.

Let’s use as our example of the most famous ‘Dave Davies’ in this image and just look at a basic illustration of the entity ‘Dave Davies’ from The Kinks. If you are not familiar with him then this is the person we are talking about:

Now, let’s take a look at a small portion of his entity chart in a very poor illustration based on a word of a Google patent but adjusted to our example here:

What you can basically see here is an image of entities (circles) and relationships (lines). If you think this type of relationship chart looks familiar, it’s probably because it looks a lot like:

Are you starting to see connections? Good knowledge panels are just the tip of the iceberg, but they serve as a great visual example of the entities and their relationships used directly in search.

Related entities

The last patent we will discuss here is simply titled, Related Entities and was granted in its current form earlier this year 2018.

Here is what we can get from the patent:

• Once again we see a reference to the entity database. This database does not simply contain a list of known entities, but as stated above, is also how they connect to other entities. The entity Dave Davies (the Kinks guy, not me “Dave Davies SEO”) will connect to the entities:
• On February 3, 1947, by the relationship of birth date
• Daniel Davies because the relationship is a child.
• There is a website

And so. All connections are contained in the database.

• There is a mechanism for prioritizing entity relationships. As noted above, the order in which Dave Davies enters his family life is a known entity but does not take precedence over other entities defined to provide a higher probability of interest to seeker.
• Stronger sites like Wikipedia provide a stronger relationship between entities. For example, a Wikipedia page discussing Ronald Reagan as the President of the United States will connect the two entities of Ronald Reagan and the President of the United States far more than they mentioned in this article with a leading agency. related to SEO and marketing.

As you can see, the patent itself quickly summarizes but the ideas inside it are very powerful.

Why are Entities important for SEO?

Entities are important to SEO because, at their core, they are the world.

We ourselves understand everything around us in the context of our entities and their relationships. We just tend not to think about it that way.

A big part of the reason we’re just starting to talk about this now is because it learns machines to use the concept from the search level.

Without machine learning, Google couldn’t understand the language well enough to interpret pages and entity relationships.

Without machine learning and specifically RankBrain, Google cannot learn to prioritize signals accurately and quickly and make adjustments to the unknown and learn from them.

So now we begin to see all of this appear and with that a major change in the way pages are ranked.

With entities coming:

• The ability to calculate probability meets user intent with much greater accuracy.
• The ability to understand words and tones, whether the outcome will be positive or negative.
• A significant reduction in dependence on links.

Links will remain a strong signal I am sure of, but they will become a simple mechanism among many to establish entity values.

To optimize in this new world, we need to change the way we think about our websites and the way we market them outside.

If we want to rank for blue widgets, we need to consider that Google may soon or will understand all the different entities related to them and accordingly, the purpose of the searcher will be met in any order.

And now you need to consider which entities you need on your site and how they need to be connected to maximize the probability that Google understands that you are capable of fulfilling more possible intentions than your competition. compete.

Entities and Links

Perhaps more important for SEO professionals will be the change in links.

If I am right, and it seems inevitable, links will become a simple connection between many entities.

Why would a link be necessary to pass value if every other signal and a strong understanding of how the entities involved are laid out?

Google doesn’t need to see that I (Dave Davies) specifically links to the Dave Davies of the Kinks website.

From a contextual perspective, this article will refer to that entity and associate it with various entities such as Google Patent US20180046717A1, but their systems will determine that the relevance is just absent and the link between This article and guitarist Kinks will be minimal

An idea to leave out is to consider every reasonable connection, regardless of the type of SEO you are doing.

If you are writing content, think of other entities that exist on the page or site and make sure they are. Look at the top 10 sites and identify other entities on those pages.

And when you’re doing link building, think of the entities you care about most when linking yourself and getting links on those sites, even if the links are down, you’re okay.

Are you a broker in Miami? Get links on real estate websites but also on Miami-related sites. You can take it a step further and think about the types of websites that are also strongly related to reality.

Mortgage brokers, for example, will have a strong real estate association for real estate and thus make good second-class entity references.

So, what can you do?

I hope I have created a case for understanding entities and more, I hope I have motivated you to keep your eyes and ears open for more information about them when you meet them. it. It is not terrifying, highly technical field of SEO. Well, that’s okay – maybe but not more than links, content strategies or how to get the most out of your analytics. In the meantime, however – what can you do to increase your physical value?

This question has many answers. Increasing the value of the entity that your website (of course it contains countless entities) requires simply strengthening your value and the relationships you want to be linked.

Some simple things you can do are:

• Create content that not only talks about your products and services, but discusses your website’s in-depth discussion. Content reinforces the link of your site to the topic you want to rank for. This will have a secondary benefit of increasing your odds that Google will consider you to answer a lot of user intent.
• Build relevant links and make your brand and website mentioned on relevant pages. Links are better mentioned, but because Google works harder and harder to understand your entity, I can say that they will no longer require links to assign links between entities.
• Add Schema to your website. Schemas are an easy way to add information to your website about your association with specific topics, brands, products, services, etc. and there are many other benefits.
• Always update your Google My Business. If you don’t have a Google My Business list, maybe you should do that instead of reading this article, but you’re almost done when you finish. This is where you specifically tell Google a lot of information about your website, your company, thematic relevance and a whole host of other information. You can also use it to add additional information to your Knowledge Sheet to attract searchers so that it has other benefits as well.

There is a bit more important and we just scan the surface here. Pay attention to what is happening with the devices and pay attention to everything you encounter about entities. This is the future.

Now, get yourself a coffee-based entity inside an entity of your cup that is related to that entity as your preferred temperature and begin.

Summary

Entities are necessary for Google to provide the information you request, when you search for pizza entities with the location relationship of the entity closest to you.

So, it is a top priority and you should start thinking about production content in the future.