Have You Notice the Google BERT update?

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Nov 5 · 3 min read
BERT Update for Website Optimization
BERT Update for Website Optimization
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Google is rolling out a new update this week or better to say that has already begun with the update. This new search engine update is being considered as a major update after “RankBrain” which will have a 10% impact on search engine results. This major update is being called BERT after Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers which addresses methods of NLP training that are way faster than usual open AI GPT. If you are interested in hardcore understanding of how BERT works, and how is it better than open AI GPT, Google has released a full understanding here — Open Sourcing BERT: State-of-the-Art Pre-training for Natural Language Processing.

In this blog, we would be focused more towards the basic of what BERT is, how is it going to effect the search engine ranking algorithms, and what does its launch means for our search engine marketing professionals, practices & methods.

As mentioned above, BERT would help the algorithm to train itself with more ‘natural way of queries’ asked by people. Hence the first thing that comes to the mind is that idea of keywords targeting would be suffer somewhere during the way in future and it would more be about key-queries. Questions like queries would become more in practice than key-phrases. This would help Google to understand a query more like human and provide more relevant and better search results.

Presently this update is going to affect only ‘English’ queries and eventually would be rolled out to address more languages. Therefore for immediate attention your might want to tune up your English web content to include more semantics instead of in order to address better variety of queries. Google with BERT is not going to change how human is going to ask things they would rather change the way in which the answers were provided to them. It would be a good idea to keep an eye on the table of queries your website is appearing from ‘Search Console’ and tune in your content accordingly to ensure that you are actually reaching your target audience.

The effect of BERT can also be seen in the Featured Snippets results. The significance of words such as ‘to’, ‘no’, ‘of’ within a query, were previously not considered as very important by Google’s algorithm. This would change thus helping it to comprehend how critical these words may be for the correct understanding of queries and would respond appropriately with results.

With the launch of BERT, the SEO companies in New York are coming up with the conferences and seminars for their high end marketing professionals for their better understanding of the concept and effect of BERT on the search engine result pages. This update is going to impact at least 10% of results, i.e. at least 1 out of 10 results, which is going to be a huge impact in the market especially for small businesses that depend more on the organic traffic coming from Google. If you want to hire a SEO company for small business in New York, NY, it would be best to check their understanding about this new update.

BERT is smarter, more accurate and will help Google understand the queries as humans perceive them.

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