Using AI to Unleash SEO Potentials
Martech Outlook | Friday, November 30, 2018
In recent times artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated the ability to mimic human actions and reactions, making it possible to think spontaneously. The question is, “will AI be able to enter human-centric fields such as marketing and leave an impact as well?”
The constant fear among marketers, like other professionals, pertaining to AI, is of turning obsolete with the spread of technology. In contrast, many employees believe that the use of AI can make their work effective and reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks.
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With matters pertaining to marketing, users and marketers understand that AI has a strong hold on the searches made. This opens the doors for search engine optimization (SEO) which can use AI to bring the best results for online marketing.
AI has proven to be a sincere student of SEO and online searches, listening and learning from searches to understand the search trend of each user, offering information based on previous topics that have been looked up. As an addition to making searches better for the user, AI makes it possible to create and use a larger dataset of keywords for best results.
Although this has been the trend in recent months, it is largely believed that AI has not been completely utilized to produce better SEO results. So, what could ideally make it better?
According to SEO veterans, AI can help SEO performance in three key areas—insights, automation, and personalization.
In insights, AI can process patterns and contemplate them beyond human capability. Using this technology, SEO can understand the fundamental requirements of the customers, and recognize opportunities to create better and more relevant opportunities. Also, AI can ensure that the user agents can crawl and surf the content with minimal effort.
The task of creating an efficient fail-safe SEO is a highly cumbersome and labor-intensive one. Although most tasks need human involvement, several of them can be automated, such as researching keywords, managing tags, and performing technical audits. Even though AI handles most of these tasks, manual control is important to ensure that the progress is streamlined, while freeing time that could be wasted in performing repetitive logic-based tasks. This is done by breaking down tasks into smaller sub-tasks and assessing them for automation. Machine learing algorithms are used to get a better grip on the quantity and quality of the data.
With the overall focus being on creating a personalized and relevant to customers, AI can make this more efficient. Based on historical data of the user, the content is created. Query and intent are associated using specific pages semantically, and nurture leads using audience leads.
With the revolution of AI already underway, it is only a matter of time before its complete power can be unleashed entirely to provide the best marketing and SEO results.
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