Entity Optimization for ITES: How to Teach AI What Your Service Does
Search is going through one of its largest shifts since Google's ranking algorithms came about. AI platforms like Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT Search, Gemini, and Perplexity are now the go-to tools for business buyers to research vendors, compare solutions, and assess service providers. Users can now ask questions that require a more complex response and get a direct answer generated from multiple pages of the web. This change alters the way businesses get visibility. Many traditional SEO strategies were centred on keywords. Companies would optimize pages around specific search terms, develop backlinks, and bid for ranking. Those practices are still relevant, but today search systems are becoming more likely to grasp the meaning of content than just looking for words on a page. Google has put several resources into learning about entities and relationships, such as the Knowledge Graph, structured data, and recent semantic search. Furthermore, AI search engines try to look for...