How to Optimise for Searcher Intent (Complete Guide 2019)

One of the biggest mistakes made by business owners and native digital marketers is being too focused on vanity keywords and search volume as the indicator of SEO success. This article will focus on user intent, often referred to as "searcher intent", as the most valuable point of focus for SEO success, in any SEO campaign. Let's start off by explaining what searcher intent actually is… Searcher intent (also known as "user intent") is the motive a person has for carrying out a query through a search engine. Understanding and optimising for your customers' intent is critical for SEO. How we search for answers has evolved and changed over the years. And with that change, search engine algorithms have been adjusted to return the most relevant results. In the beginning, search engines returned results based on a pretty simplistic formula: They would look at basic factors such as the density of keywords matching the query and some more elusive factors like PageRank. SEO professionals and spammers took advantage of this with keyword stuffing, hiding text techniques and buying links. The era of black hat SEO, unfortunately, blossomed. It was, and will always be, in Google's best interest to become better at answering queries. SEO success used to be built on gaming search engines, but now SEO is about optimising for what the user is trying to accomplish. As it should be, we're no longer writing for robots and algorithms.