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Entity SEO

Entity SEO is optimising for a search engine's understanding of a thing — a business, product, or person — rather than for individual keywords.

Search engines and language models both resolve queries to entities before ranking documents. If your business is not a recognised entity with consistent attributes, you compete only on keyword matching.

Consistency is the mechanism: the same name, the same description, the same category, corroborated across independent sources.

In practice

Fix your description once and repeat it everywhere — profile, site, directories, press page, structured data — before writing more content.

Common questions

How do I become a recognised entity?
Consistent attributes across many independent sources, plus structured data connecting them. Volume of mentions matters less than agreement between them.

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