Chapter 5: Understanding Blended Search
In This Chapter
Knowing what gets blended
Optimizing products
Optimizing news
Optimizing images
Optimizing video
Optimizing for local search
In May 2007, Google released a new version of its search results dubbed universal search. Other search engines followed suit. The SEO industry calls it blended search.
Blended search mixes relevant news, images, video, and other content right into the traditional web search results on a search result page.
If a search engine decides that some other type of content (a photograph, for example) is more relevant than the top-ten web search results, the search engine replaces one of those web search results with the image.
Blended search presents more opportunities for you to grab real estate on the first page of search engine results. Every image, video, and press release you do, as well as your physical location, ...
