1. of all searches
will be voice
searches by 2020
50% 30%
of all
searches will
be done
without a
screen by
2020
of all
households in
the United
States owned a
smart speaker
in 2017. That
number is
predicted to rise
to 55% by 2022
13% 65%
of people who
own an Amazon
Echo or Google
Home can’t
imagine to going
back to the days
before they had
a smart speaker
one-in-six
Americans own
a voice
activated smart-
speaker
16%
the number of
millennials who
use voice-
enabled digital
assistants will
climb to in 2020
39%
As of January 2019, there were an estimated
one billion voice searches per month
Voice Search by Numbers
comScore, Gartner, OC&C Strategy Consultants, Edison Research and NPR, Alpine.AI, GeoMarketing, eMarketer
2. Just Say It. Voice Search
Website content in the era of voice
search isn’t about keywords, it’s about
semantic search and building the context
related to answering a question
3. Position Zero and Snippets
• Why do some web pages show up "above"
the first search result?
• Position Zero is a critical place for the business
to be in search results because the voice
search results that are returned tend to be from
that first location.
• Position 0 is the location above the traditional
search results – they may be a map, a weather
listing, sports scores, or other structure data.
• At the moment we find that 80% of Google
Home voice search results are driven by
Rich Snippets, derived from Position 0
results.
• Google crawls pages and determines the best
answer, often pulling into the search result much
more than the traditional 10 blue links. This is a
huge opportunity for wineries to capitalize on
rich content snippets to drive more traffic.
“Roughly 30% of all searches currently trigger a Position ZERO result” (Stone Temple)
Editor's Notes
There are no specific ads for the Voice search yet, making SEO even more valuable in the interim
We unconsciously change our behavior when using voice search. As a result, voice search queries are longer than their text counterparts – they tend to be three-to-five keywords in length, and they tend to explicitly ask a question, characterized by words like who, how, what, where, why and when, with the expectation that the search engines will provide an answer back. 2. The choice of words used in the question provides more context about user intent, which in turn can provide advertisers with more insight into where the consumer is within the purchase funnel.
Write content in a natural, conversational voice that answers the questions your consumers are asking: Website content in the era of voice search isn’t about keywords, it’s about semantic search and building the context related to answering a question.
Build out your view of user intent based on the types of question-based queries: It’s essential to understand the intent behind a query and how both you and the search engine can deliver more accurate results based on the anticipated context. Develop content as well as expand your paid search keyword lists to include longer tail keyword phrases to reach users at each stage of intent based on the types of questions they are asking.
It’s because they give answers to the questions people are searching for in a way that’s convenient, quick, and easy to read. You don’t have to click through anything to find what you’re looking for.