Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Impact of chatbots on SEO


I was thinking that chatbots are so new it’s unlikely Google has already put algorithmic changes in place that are specifically targeted at chatbots.
All we have to go by are the SEO rules we already know. From these rules, we can deduct the likely impact of chatbots on SEO.
Google does not interrogate chatbots like a human would, in order to crawl their content. So you should have the same information available on the site in traditional pages as well.
Provided you do that, chatbots are a net - positive because they increase engagement and time on page, while lowering bounce rates.
All great signals of a quality site, which Google will reward with better rankings in the result pages.