Every time I end up having a beautiful moment in my life, something that really clicks into my memory. Tightly snaps like a couple of found legos that I thought were missing from the set. Every time I remember the scenery of a memory I had. Every time I think of a close intimate moment of my life… I had a connection.

This connection is something that human nature is tied to. Something that happens so infrequently that it nearly sounds like a chalk board in the distance being scratched with fingernails. It’s something that loneliness is yearning for…

It is the human connection to speech.

In modern times speech seems to be a distant cousin that you never talk to. The energy required to invest in someones up-close personality is becoming an experience that some may call a relic of the past, as typing commands into a keyboard or screen demands way less. Fixing typos, Freudian slips or actual trueness is something that has been ingrained into the soul so much that it’s turned into habit, or further more more… human nature (Cerrone soundtrack kicks in here). Typing is easy, but if we desire the true human connection, then language is the link, and separation that can divide or connect us to our computers.

Anyways, after all that, the conclusion is that speech recognition is what we want. Voice search delivers it to us (the soundtrack I set still hopefully rollin’).

Well, let’s first get an idea of what the exact definition of what a voice search is. When I’m in need of a Google search, I would say around 25% of the time I just click the Siri icon on my Mac Book Pro’s taskbar, and verbally ask the question I need to search for. While using my phone its about 50% of the time. In the past I would alter my tone of voice and pull words from my normal speech patterns, so that it would tend to sound like I was speaking to a robot. ‘What time Moma Close Sunday?’  instead of, ‘When does Moma close on Sundays?’. Of course that was when the voice recognition was not half as good as it is now. Now speaking any natural style will easily be understood by Siri… most of the time.

All recent phones are preinstalled with voice recognition from a growing selection of Apps. Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Google’s Voice Control, etc. These voice recognition interfaces are being built into all types of devices: speakers, watches, laptops, televisions, and even cars. The list and the actions they help a person perform are actually a little ridiculous. Being installed on a light switch always seemed to be quite a bit unnecessary. C’mon, how much energy does it take to stand up and just flick a switch? Perhaps it’s the desire to live in Blade Runner that has been tugging at everyone’s soul since the 80’s. But realistically, everyone is loving voice search for just about everything. So it’s best to get on board and take advantage of it’s SEO possibilities.

Anyhow, with all the accuracy of applications and the vast array of devices equipped with these voice recognition assistants, comes a time when long-tail question keywords (key words with 3 or more words, uhm that are questions) will be the most searched for topics in Google. Therefore we will no longer need to use the ‘robot like’ talking that we used to use for a voice search in 2014. It will quickly change from keywords like ‘voice search’ to ‘What is Voice Search’, and ‘How does Voice Search Affect SEO’… Oops, did I just give away my secret keyword for getting this post some kick-ass rankings? Seriously though…

Its pretty much standard knowledge that no one starting a new blog is currently going to rank at any single word keywords. There is just way too much competition out there. Those words are owned by website with high domain authority, who have already spent years building trust for their brand and website… which by the way, is a rough definition of what the term “high domain score” means.

So the work-around for this problem is to take a short key word that’s very popular like, “voice search“. By taking that word and using natural human voice search semantics, and using it as the long-tailed keyword, “what is voice search“.

Not only are long tailed keywords less competitive and easier to rank for, but they are more specific. Meaning that if someone searches for the exact string of words you have selected, you will more than likely be closer to the top of the Google search, and you’ll have the direct answer for their query on your webpage. It’s a win win situation for the user and for the site, as it gets the click-through from the SERP. This is a genera, well planned strategy to writing a voice search focused keyword into a web page.