Bill Slawski talks with Jason Barnard about knowledge panels

Bill Slawski is the Director of Search Marketing for Go Fish Digital and the editor of SEO by the Sea. He has been doing SEO since 1996, and is regarded as a teacher and mentor to the SEO community - educating on both core and complex SEO principles.

Google created the Knowledge Graph back in 2012, and as it started to focus on indexing “things” instead of “strings” - the world of SEO has not been quite the same again.

As Bill explains: “strings to things, where it is not so much about matching keywords, but instead, about answering questions involving things”.

This was a fascinating and insightful episode where Jason Barnard and Bill Slawski discuss in depth the Knowledge Graph, knowledge panels, and entities in search.

Bill also touches on the concept of “Teachable Moments” - a fascinating concept that ties in with the Zero-click searches Rand Fishkin talks about. We will certainly hear more about in the coming months (and years).

How does the Knowledge Graph confidence score work? How does Google ‘learn’? WHat purpose do knowledge panels serve? What triggers a Knowledge Panel? 

You'll find out all about that and much more!

Further reading:

https://gofishdigital.com/what-is-semantic-seo/

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/queries-structured-information-cards/389002/

What you’ll learn from Bill Slawski

00:00 Bill Slawski with Jason Barnard02:18 Word Vectors in search05:29 How Google identifies entities in search07:40 Teachable moments in search08:59 Do PAA Boxes mean that Google understood the entity within the query?10:11 Bill Slawski’s Brand SERP14:53 How does Google's Knowledge Graph confidence score work?18:48 How Google distinguishes between reliable vs popular sources21:48 Building your presence in the Knowledge Graph today24:18 Geolocation, relevance and topicality as factors in the Knowledge Graph27:35 Does Google understand physical entities better than conceptual entities?33:19 What purpose do Knowledge Panels serve in Google's eyes?35:45 What triggers a Knowledge Panel?38:08 Trigger Terms according to Bill Slawski38:45 Label Terms according to Bill Slawski40:07 Bill Slawski expands on how knowledge panels evolve42:02 Google's challenge in understanding certain entities43:47 The concept of Dominant Entities explained by Bill Slawski

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This episode was recorded live on video March 24th 2021

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