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The Secret Life of Queries:
Parsing, Rewriting & SEO
Rebecca Berbel | Oncrawl
Koray Tuǧberk Gübür | Holistic SEO
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^(([^:/?#]+):)?(//([^
/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(?([
^#]*))?(#(.*))?
https://www.google.com
/search?q=search+engine+k
eywords#anchor
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WHAT
THAT
MEANT
FOR SEO
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NOT
ANY
MORE.
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LET'S
TAKE A
LOOK.
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PARSING
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Parsing a query
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REWRITING
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Query segments
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Keyword clustering
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Keywords → Questions
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Question Templates
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Query refinements
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CONTEXT
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User Intent
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User Intent
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Location/Time
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FINDING
ANSWERS
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BERT
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Candidate Passages
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Candidate Passages
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Candidate Passages
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PHEW.
LET'S
TAKE A
STEP BACK.
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THERE'S MORE
(but we'll stop here)
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GOOGLE DOES NOT USE
THE TEXT YOU TYPED
TO SEARCH FOR
RESULTS.
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WHAT
THAT
MEANS
FOR SEO
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BUILD
TOPICAL
RELEVANCE
Oncrawl / Koray
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REMEMBER
NEURAL
MATCHING
Danny Sullivan (Twitter)
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GROUP
TARGETED
QUERIES
Stefan Neefischer
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THINK
SEARCH
INTENT
Johanna Maier / Lidia Infante / Lazarina Stoy
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DOES IT
WORK?
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Semantic networks & topical relevance
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Semantic networks & topical relevance
10K to 70K
clicks per month
(5 months)
10K to 200K+
clicks per month
(5 months)
0 to 330K+
clicks per month
(6 months)
+400%
growth
(6 months)
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Thank you!
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rebecca@oncrawl.com
@KorayGubur
Holistic SEO
ktgubur@holisticseo.digital
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