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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How to Beat BERT, Google's Latest Algorithm Update | Ep. #1208

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Marketing, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In episode #1208, we discuss how BERT helps to refine Google searches and queries. It is estimated that one in ten searches will be affected by this update and this portion is likely to be increasing even more. Tune in to hear practical examples of how BERT will help to produce relevant search results.  TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: How to Beat BERT, Google’s Latest Algorithm Update.  [00:52] What BERT stands for and what its implication is for users.  [01:23] How this update helps with search queries and a practical example.  [02:10] Considering each search word to produce more specific context search results. [02:26] The portion of searches that will be affected by this change. [03:16] Google’s mission to understand what people are looking for.  [03:27] Why the number of searches BERT impacts will likely increase.  [03:43] The sites that are getting traffic from the BERT algorithm update.  [04:16] That’s it for today! [04:19] To stay updated with events and learn more about our mastermind, go to the Marketing School site for more information. Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: More about Google BERT Leave Some Feedback:   What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review.   Connect with Us:  Neilpatel.com Quick Sprout  Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel  Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top-level marketing tips and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.

0:11.5

Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with

0:14.0

your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:19.2

All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.

0:24.0

If you want to rank higher on Google,

0:25.9

you got to look at your paid speed time.

0:28.5

The faster your website loads, the better off you are.

0:31.3

With Google's core vital update,

0:33.0

that makes it super, super important

0:34.8

to optimize your site for low time.

0:37.6

And one easy way to do it is use the host

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that Eric and I use, Dreamhost.

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So just go to Dream Host or Google it.

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Find it, check it out, and it's a great way

0:47.0

to improve your low time.

0:50.4

Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Sue and I'm Neil Patel.

0:55.6

And today we're going to talk about how to beat Bert. Google's latest algorithm update.

1:00.4

And by the way, this is not the sesame Street birt I you know I

1:06.4

used to my nicknames used to be Ernie but anyway that's besides the

1:09.2

point Neil what is Bert because you actually wrote a pretty long form piece of content on this I think this week right? Yeah technically I just published it today although this podcast is a little bit older than today. Yeah, but Bert if you aren't up to date with what Bert is, it stands for

1:27.2

bi-directional encoder representations from Transformers, which probably none of us really understand what that means, but a simpler way to look at it is Google is using natural language processing.

1:41.5

And a basic example of this, and this is an old one you know you type in a flight

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