This week’s Wednesday Workshop should scare a lot of you… Seriously! Hardly anyone is considering voice search, and how the rise of non-typed searches will change the way people look for local car dealerships.
Have you thought about how you need to prepare for searches on Siri, Alexa, Cortana, or Google Home? Has your SEO provider thought about it, and started to prepare your site for the fast-approaching future of voice searches?
Watch this video and see why these questions are incredibly important to your dealership.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Welcome back to another Wednesday Workshop. This week we’re sharing some thoughts on… Voice Search.
Really, we’re just doing this video cause he’s in love with Siri
Dude, come on – my wife watches these!
I know it probably seems far off to be talking much about voice search relative to the car shopping experience, but is it really that crazy?
If you think about Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana and Google Home… it should be easy to see that the most influential, massively adopted companies are ALL IN with voice search tech.
Looking at voice search from an advertising perspective is still somewhat challenging. Most voice search queries are not yet commercial… but they are mostly questions, and with Alexa’s direct connection to Amazon, users are starting to move in that direction.
But for now, people are mostly asking questions. How, What, Where, Why, Who, When??? You get it.
But… What happens when the big platforms discover the best ad placement methodology?
Trust me… It will be here before you know it.
If you’re thinking… usable, useful voice search is still WAY off… consider the fact that mobile search took over desktop search in only about 5 years. We started watching this mobile search trend closely as far back as 2011. By 2015, we noticed mobile search and mobile visits had surpassed desktop.
So… Voice search may just be the next “big thing’. If you want to spend some time with you inner Search nerd… play around with any of these technologies you have in your pocket or or maybe sitting in your kitchen.
Seriously… watch this…
(here’s where the live voice search demo happens)
Well how about that???
If you’re wondering how to optimize for searches like this, you’re asking the right question. It’s more important than ever before to make sure your content is conversational. The questions that people ask in a voice search are completely different from the things they type into a Google search box.
You definitely want to be sure that you’ve partnered with a smart SEO provider to think about these things and make sure your sites are ready!
If you have questions or comments… leave them down below and we’ll get back with you shortly! See you next week with another Wednesday workshop from… DealerOn.
