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Notes on entity SEO, local search, and the rest of life

I am an entity SEO strategist in Ventura, California. Most posts cover entity SEO, local SEO, and how AI search systems work.

I also write about living with multiple sclerosis (MS) and about Ventura. Newer posts appear first.

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Deep entity understanding

Deep entity understanding

Beyond surface definitions Most people in SEO think "Deep Entity Understanding" means memorizing definitions and adding terms like "semantic relevance" to sound impressive. That...

How to define your target audience in 6 questions

How to define your target audience in 6 questions

Define your target audience by answering six questions and then describing the result as one specific person. The six questions cover age, location, most common gender, how to promote to them, where they spend time online, and what content format they prefer. A...

Gemini Embedding 2

Gemini Embedding 2

Gemini Embedding 2 is a multilingual embedding model from Google. It encodes text, images, video, audio, and PDFs into one shared vector space. Because every input type lands in the same space, a text query can retrieve an image, and an image can retrieve a passage of...

Word2Vec: Transforming Words into Meaningful Vectors

Word2Vec: Transforming Words into Meaningful Vectors

Words have hidden relationships. Word2Vec reveals them Words connect and relate through meaning. Word2Vec turns these connections into numbers that computers can process. Consider this example: "King" minus "man" plus "woman" equals "queen." This arithmetic is...

The Lead Generation System That Changed Everything

The Lead Generation System That Changed Everything

Lead generation is the foundation of a business, and everything else flows downstream from it. I have spent 13 years building landing pages for clients, and in that time I have found that offers, ads, and websites all depend on getting leads. You can fix your offers,...

Articles on entity SEO: optimizing for the people, places, and brands your pages describe, and helping Google recognize your business.

Articles on SEO strategy for businesses, including SEO tool reviews, link building, and content planning for service businesses.

Articles on optimizing individual pages, including title tags, article titles, keyword placement, content quality, and HTML elements such as the hgroup tag.

Articles on technical SEO, including Google's crawl budget guidance, redirects for retired pages, and finding unused JavaScript and CSS with Chrome DevTools.

Articles on search intent, the goal behind a search query, and how you can match your content to it.

Guidance on internal linking, the links that connect pages on one website, and how content clusters help visitors and Google find related pages.

Articles on how Google and AI search systems such as AI Overviews and Perplexity work, and how you can adjust your content for them.

Articles on embeddings, which turn text into numerical vectors, and on models such as Word2Vec and Gemini Embedding that you can use for semantic analysis.

Articles on local SEO: ranking in Google Maps and local results, local keyword research, and strategies for local service businesses and agencies.

Articles on setting up your Google Business Profile and keeping your business information consistent across the web.

Articles on semantic SEO, which builds content around meaning, including semantic triples, schema for local service pages, and semantic depth and width.

Articles on natural language processing (NLP), the field of AI in which computers interpret and generate human language.

Articles on digital marketing, including lead generation, advertising, persuasion, branding, audience research, and business growth.

Personal posts by Casey Keith about living with multiple sclerosis (MS), life in Ventura, California, and car reviews.

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