SEOs and marketers, you better hold on to your keyboards, because Google may be about to fundamentally restructure how its search engine goes about indexing web pages. If a team of Google researchers has their way, link profiling may become a thing of the past, replaced by a centralized, Google directed, proto-artificially intelligent algorithm that taps into the company’s vast (and growing) Knowledge Vault to rank websites based primarily on relevance and factual information instead of the number and quality of incoming links.
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The move would clearly represent a seismic shift in the way information is indexed on the world’s largest search engine which, according to Google’s own numbers, is presently crawling and indexing more than 60 trillion individual web pages to “deliver the best results possible” for its more than 100 billion user searches per month…
Forget Link Building: Time to Embrace the Google Knowledge Vault
