What is entity SEO, and how is it different from keyword SEO?
Keyword SEO asks which words a page should target. Entity SEO asks what the page is about and how that subject connects to everything else. Search engines increasingly work at the entity level, so a page about a specific firm, its founder and its specialty is understood through those relationships, not just the words used.
For a business, that means defining a few core entities very clearly: the organization itself, key people whose expertise matters to buyers, the services or products you offer and the locations you serve. Then every major source should describe those entities the same way.
- Organization and Person schema with accurate, consistent properties
- sameAs reconciliation across official profiles, directories and data sources
- About, leadership and service pages that define each entity clearly
- Topical entity graphs linking your brand to key industry concepts
- Disambiguation from businesses or people with similar names