Question about Topics and subjects of sentences
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Hello,
This might be a bit of technical question but how is google linking entities together ?
I understand that when writing a piece of content I need to cover multiple topics (which are also entities as far as I understand). Then, in order for google to link multiple entities together my guess is that my sentence needs to be written in subject, predicate, object format ? where my topic / entity comes out as the subject of the sentence.
For example if I write that: "Tuscany is a famous for it's rolling hills?, here the subject is Tuscany which is what I want as it one of the topics I want to cover. But let's say that instead I write:" Rolling hills is something you find everywhere in Tuscany". Here Tuscany doesn't help because it isn't a subject and is just dropped there, correct ?
Concerning the attributs of my entities (the object), does google have a list of what is right of wrong. For example if I say that Washington is the capital of italy ? can I be penalised for that ? I guess this is called entity disambiguation ? If the capital of italy would also be called Washington I believe that I would be ok but see that it isn't, can it hurt ?
Thank you,
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Hello AlishaW,
Do you mean that If I provide incorrect information about an entity that could hurt my ranking. If i say something wrong such as : Football is played with your hands.
Will it hurt ?
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I agree with EGOL. Your emphasis should be on writing for people not for crawlers. Keep your content clear, grammatically correct and interesting for readers, and don’t worry about sentence structure as it relates to how crawlers will parse the information.
Google’s RankBrain machine-learning technology has enhanced Google’s ability to understand natural language queries, context, and therefore, all of the VARIOUS WAYS that a person might phrase the same idea.
Another important note is that providing incorrect information can negatively impact a page’s rankings. Google wants to provide the best answer to a user’s query, so it makes sense that a page with incorrect information may not rank well.
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I always pick the sentence structure that is the most interesting to the reader and easiest to understand.
The job of writing is not easy. Don't complicate it by trying to please google. Please the reader and you will please google directly or indirectly.
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