List of 10 Awesome Articles on Google Hummingbird
Google’s Search algorithms have changed and matured to a certain extent in last 15 years. In the beginning of October 2013, Google announced another major algorithm update called Hummingbird. It is one of the deepest changes since they launched caffeine back in 2010.
Google unleashed Hummingbird in order to understand what is in a user’s mind. The algorithm itself can better understand the intention of a user and what exactly he/she is looking for. Gross! Look below:
It’s clear that Hummingbird is going to scrape more data from websites so people will never be leaving Google.com. It isn’t rolled out completely yet but think for a while if it starts answering the way as shown in next screenshot, there doesn’t seem to be a reason to leave Google. This is exactly what they want, right?
Who is going to benefit from it?
How would it impact my online business even I rank on the first spot?
There are still a plenty of unanswered things so I curated a list of top posts from industry influencers on Google Hummingbird update. Each post in the list has shared extensive insights on what exactly it is and how it’ll impact the search industry.
Article 1:
Eric Enge is the president of Stone Temple Consulting. He has been a featured writer at Copyblogger, Search Engine Land & Search Engine Watch. Lately, he shared the implications of hummingbird and how content creators can take the most out of it at CopyBlogger.
http://www.copyblogger.com/google-hummingbird/
Article 2:
Gianluca Fiorelli is one of the most active members of Moz community and founder of iloveSEO.net. He wrote an awesome post a while ago at Moz blog describing how Hummingbird works and what all the SEO’s should do to be Hummingbird-friendly.
http://moz.com/blog/hummingbird-unleashed
Article 3:
Danny Sullivan is the founder of Search Engine Land and widely known as a search engine industry guru. He has been quoted several times in places like USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, Forbes among others. He came up with these interesting FAQs explaining everything about hummingbird, its usage and help.
http://searchengineland.com/google-hummingbird-172816
Article 4:
Robert Hof has spent around 9 years as chief at BusinessWeek’s Silicon Valley Bureau. He writes about Internet technologies and search industry. Rob managed to write an authentic story on Hummingbird quoting Amit Singhal many times and how it can change our search experience.
Article 5:
Bill Slawski is the Founder/Editor of SEO by the Sea. He’s been associated with search industry for 15 years now and provides consulting to medium to large businesses. He also holds the position of Search Marketing Director at Go Fish Digital. Read his post on Hummingbird Patent here:
http://www.seobythesea.com/2013/09/google-hummingbird-patent/
Article 6:
Paul Hill works as a creative content and engagement specialist at Further, A digital marketing agency based in Norwich UK. He wrote fantastic content strategy tips at Content Marketing Institute to take the best out of Google Hummingbird.
http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2013/10/keep-website-content-ranking-google-hummingbird/
Article 7:
Asher Elran is the Co Founder of Dynamic Search LLC and Web Ethics. He is a software engineer and marketing evangelist with a computer science degree. He spread around deep insights on how hummingbird is going to change our search habits and why it was invented.
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/google-hummingbird/
Article 8:
Trevin Shirey is a 25 years lad from Pennsylvania who is not known to many but he is a pretty smart internet marketer and a growth marketing geek. He works for WebPagefx and his responsibility is to drive traffic to websites. I came across his hummingbird post a while ago and found it worth sharing:
http://www.trevinshirey.com/google-goes-scraper-with-hummingbird-update/
Article 9:
Greg Secrist is the Co-Founder and CEO of BKA Content, a copywriting agency serving people’s content needs. Greg took a step further and shared “How Does Penguin 2.1 and Hummingbird Change Things”. He adopted an out of the box approach to explain things with a simply designed info graphics.
http://www.bkacontent.com/how-does-penguin-2-1-and-hummingbird-change-things/
Article 10:
Stephen Kenwright works as a Content Marketing Strategist for Branded3, an award winning digital marketing agency based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. He unleashed his conclusion on where Google is heading towards with Hummingbird and how it works.
http://www.branded3.com/blogs/google-going-hummingbird/
Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy the list. Sharing is fun so don’t hesitate to share it!
Nabeel Tanveer
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