Google
Celebrated their 15th birthday on September 26th 2013 they announced
about new search algorithm named “Hummingbird algorithm”. This
new algorithm affected 90% of searches worldwide and it is based on
semantic search. This algorithm impacting general search quality, but
instead, focuses on data recovery and how data is accessed and
presented to users.
Hummingbird
is paying a lot of attention to every word in a query guaranteeing
that the whole query – the complete sentence which means is taken
into consideration, instead of specific words. The goal is that pages
matching the meaning do better than matching few words.
Hummingbird Algorithm Update
Google Hummingbird Algorithm |
- Keep your site updated with original and high quality content.
- Avoid black hat SEO techniques like hiding text,cloaking and keyword stuffing.
- Claim authorship for your content.
- Have relevant back links linking to your website.
- Share your content in top social networks like Google plus, Facebook, Twitter etc.,
This update is related to search queries obviously it for long tail queries where Google want to provide a better result for more complex search queries. This algorithm makes the searches more user-friendly maintains relevancy in search terms.