Intent optimization is the practice of finding and serving the intent of users that visit your website. The practice aims to identify gaps and opportunities to better address the user’s need at a particular stage of the marketing funnel.
Search engines have begun to place emphasis on what a user “means” vs what they “say” in their search queries. This emphasizes the important to make sure your search listings align with what people are looking for and the content of the landing pages matches the information or resource a searcher is inquiring about.
Some keywords have ambiguous intent and it’s a marketer’s job to figure out how to meet various needs on a single page. I wrote about search intent optimization on MarketingLand.com which covered various types of queries, steps for optimization, etc. While most queries have informational-intent, the main categorizations are:
I’ve dug further into the topic to share with you. If you prefer a resource to learn from (and share), you have your choice of a video presentation or slide deck below:
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