Comments on: SEO for Voice Search

By: Paul Steinbrueck

Paul Steinbrueck — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:59:41 +0000

In reply to Robby. Thanks Robby. I'm glad our blog posts are helpful for you and I appreciate your friendship.

By: Robby

Robby — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:12:08 +0000

Hi Paul, thanks for your great reply, I was thought that maybe google rank difference between the voice search and the words search, if the result is same, of course by voice search ,it is great and amazing since the customers not necessary to type the words into the search bar, maybe it is the new search way in the future, I am in China, in our country, we can not visit google, but I visit by VPN, in your site, I learned many much knowledge of SEO and Social Media, site building, all advance ideas and tips, Paul, you are expert, if you rank a SEO company, I think you are expert and powerful, not only Churt sites:) Of course, the site of you, great!!! I am your fans, and back for your new articles and the old ones times and times, since you shared me many much, thank you Paul 🙂 Really 🙂 We are friends now 🙂

By: Paul Steinbrueck

Paul Steinbrueck — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:07:20 +0000

In reply to Robby. Hi Robby, no - if you use the same words in voice search as text search you will get the same results in Google. What's different is most people use different words when they speak their search rather than type it.

By: Robby

Robby — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 04:55:05 +0000

Hi Paul, do you mean the voice search and words search via google, the result not the same? 🙂 And I have not done any voice search by my phone, but i will try 🙂

By: PaulSteinbrueck

PaulSteinbrueck — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 20:46:21 +0000

In reply to Laurie. Laurie, thanks for sharing your perspective. That's cool that you're creating YouTube videos to ask questions people are asking. I think that correlates well with questions people are asking their digital assistants. In my use of Siri, I haven't seen videos in the results. Perhaps they're there and I just haven't seen them. Or perhaps if digital assistants don't return videos in their search results you could post text transcripts of your videos.

By: PaulSteinbrueck

PaulSteinbrueck — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 20:42:15 +0000

In reply to Andrew S.. Hey Andrew, thanks for commenting. I also tend to use voice search more for quick lookups like scores and weather but I think as digital assistants get smarter people will ask for more complicated information. Perhaps more and more people will speak into their phone, "Siri, show me stories from people who have left the Mormon church" :)

By: Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 02:21:30 +0000

Hi! Nice post. I tend to voice search with Google on my phone (Android). My searches from my phone are usually current events like"when do the NBA finals begin?" Or when does the Women's college softball championship begin.
As far as SEO, I've been using YouTube videos to rank and link back to my site or landing page. I do optimize the title, description etc. based on the best question someone might search with, ex. "Where can I buy $5 visitors to my website?".
Nice website as well!

By: Andrew S.

Andrew S. — Fri, 27 May 2016 20:17:37 +0000

I have to say, I was thinking that this would be about getting Siri-specific searches, but this is actually a pretty creative way of refocusing/reframing typical SEO discussions to how people *actually* search for stuff. I do not personally use voice searches on my phone that much. It seems easier for me to type than to speak, usually. But I understand that the sorts of things i use voice search for are different than the sorts of things I type to search — on Google Now, for example, if I ask for the weather by voice, it'll tell me by voice (so there's that benefit over typing it.) It would not make sense to try to optimize my site for weather results, however, lol.