Longer, more thorough documents tend to do better in the search results. We know that's true, but why? And is there a way we can use that knowledge to our advantage? In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains how Google may be weighting content comprehensiveness and outlines his three-step methodology for gaining an edge over your competitors when it comes to meeting searchers' needs.
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Howdy, Moz fans, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. This week we're going to chat about, well, something I've noticed, something we've noticed here at Moz, which is that there seems to be this extra weight that Google is putting right now on what I'm going to call content comprehensiveness, the degree to which a piece of content answers all of a searcher's potential questions. I think this is one of the reasons that we keep seeing statistics like word length and document length is well-correlated with higher rankings and why it tends to be the case that longer documents tend to do better in search results. I'm going to break this down.
Broad ranking inputs
On the broad ranking inputs, when Googlebot is over here and sort of considering like: Which URL should I rank? Someone searched for best time to apply for jobs, and what am I going to put in here? They tend to look at a bunch of stuff. Domain authority and page-level link authority and keyword targeting, for sure. Topic authority, the domain, and load speed and freshness and da, da, da.
But these four, all of which are sort of related:
- Searcher engagement and satisfaction, so the degree to which when people land on that page they have a good experience, they don't bounce back to the search results and click another result.
- The diversity and uniqueness of that content compared to everything else in the results.
- The raw content quality, which I think Google has probably lots of things they use to measure content quality, including engagement and satisfaction, so these might overlap.
- And then comprehensiveness.
It's sort of this right mix of these three things, like the depth, the trustworthiness, and the valuethat the content provides seems to really speak to this. It's something we've been seeing like Google kind of overweighting right now, especially over the last 12 to 18 months. There seems to be this confluence of queries, where this very comprehensive content comes up in ranking positions that we wouldn't ordinarily expect. It throws off things around link metrics and keyword targeting metrics, and sometimes SEOs go, "What is going on there?"
So, in particular, we see this happening with informational- and research-focused queries, with product and brand comparison type queries, like "best stereo" or "best noise cancelling headphones," so those types of things. Broad questions, implicit or explicit questions that have complex or multifaceted answers to them. So probably, yes, you would see this type of very comprehensive content ranking better, and, in fact, I did some of these queries. So for things like "job application best practices," "gender bias in hiring," "résumé examples," these are broad questions, informational/research focus, product comparison stuff.
Then, not so much, you would not see these in things like "job application for Walmart," which literally just takes you to Walmart's job application page, which is not a particularly comprehensive format. The comprehensive stuff ranks vastly below that. "Gender bias definition," which takes you to a short page with the definition, and "résumé template Google Docs," which takes you to Google Docs' résumé template. These are almost more navigational or more short-format answer in what they're doing. I didn't actually mean to replace that.
How to be more comprehensive than the competition
So if you want to nail this, if you identify that your queries are not in this bucket, but they are in this bucket, you probably want to try and aim for some of this content comprehensiveness. To do that, I've got kind of a three-step methodology. It is not easy, it is hard, and it is going to take a lot of work. I don't mean to oversimplify. But if you do this, you tend to be able to beat out even much more powerful websites for the queries you're going after.
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