Search News You Can Use - SEO Podcast with Marie Haynes

Google just announced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a new way to structure your knowledge for AI agents. This standard uses simple Markdown to make business and personal insights accessible to the agentic web. In this video, I break down why this changes SEO, how to build your first OKF bundle, and the potential for selling expert knowledge directly to AI systems.Google's blog post on okf:https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-the-open-knowledge-format-can-improve-data-sharing/The Spec.md file for OKF on Github:https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog/blob/main/okf/SPEC.mdAndrej Karpathy's LLM-Wiki:https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94fJoin me in my community at the Search Bar:https://community.mariehaynes.comhttps://mariehaynes.com/join - for more on the paid areas.0:00 - Introduction to Google's Open Knowledge Format (OKF)1:03 - How OKF changes SEO and makes businesses accessible to AI agents1:43 - Selling proprietary knowledge and OKF bundles2:21 - How to use NotebookLM and Gemini to learn the new standard3:02 - What is OKF? (Markdown files and the LLM Wiki pattern)4:01 - Breaking down the OKF spec (Human and agent-friendly format)5:03 - Terminology: Creating "Knowledge Bundles" and directories5:51 - Structuring concepts as single Markdown files6:30 - Understanding YAML front matter (Type, title, descriptions, tags)7:18 - Formatting the body, citations, and cross-linking7:40 - Organizing files: Index files, log files, and using Git/Obsidian9:11 - Practical examples: BigQuery data vs. triggered Playbooks11:12 - Andre Karpathy’s LLM Wiki pattern explained13:48 - Letting the LLM write and maintain your knowledge wiki14:34 - Why OKF is the "new schema" and future revenue streams17:15 - How agents discover your OKF (llms.txt) and "Semantic Unbaking"

The January 2025 update of Google's Quality Rater Guidelines had many important changes including sections on: -filler content -paraphrased content -Using AI in content creation -Expired domains -Scaled content abuse This was a live episode of Search News You Can Use filmed in The Search Bar. Buy My 2025 edition of my QRG checklist you can use to assess your site like a quality rater: https://www.mariehaynes.com/products/qrg-workbook-2025/ Join the Search Bar: https://community.mariehaynes.com/

Are Chrome engagement signals used in Google's ranking systems? I'd recommend watching Cindy's video from last week: https://youtu.be/txNT1S28U3M?si=uPi9nz61-1HfJefG Cindy theorized that Google collects all sorts of information from our visits using the Chrome browser. In our talk we discuss whether and how this information could be used in ranking algorithms. Reach Cindy: https://mobilemoxie.com/ https://x.com/Suzzicks Reach Marie: https://mariehaynes.com/contact/ https://community.mariehaynes.com/ - The Search Bar Links mentioned in this episode: The Pandu Nayak testimony: https://thecapitolforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/101823-USA-v-Google-PM.pdf Distributed Representation of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality - Jeff Dean, Ilya Sutskever et al. - Helps explain how vectors in a space are adjusted. Gemini gave me this paper when we were discussing RankBrain.

Thank you to Adam Szmerling from Bayside Psychotherapy who allowed me to publish our brainstorming session. The first 45 minutes or so of this episode are me sharing how Google’s algorithms have changed. Then, Adam and I look in detail at his competition and his website and discuss how to change it so that it is more likely to meet the needs of his potential clients. Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/K0FVlM7Xmc0 Links Marie’s book, SEO in the Gemini Era, The Story of How AI Changed Google Search https://amzn.to/3WPBg0Z SEO in the Gemini Era course: https://www.mariehaynes.com/gemini-era-seo/course/ Brainstorm with Marie: https://www.mariehaynes.com/work-with-marie/ DOJ vs. Google Pandu Nayak testimony: https://thecapitolforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/101823-USA-v-Google-PM.pdf My blog post on the API files with attributes including Navboost : https://www.mariehaynes.com/what-is-this-leaked-google-code-digging-into-the-api-docs/ Cyrus Shepard’s Moz article on click patents: https://moz.com/blog/click-based-seo-engagement-signals Internal Google email talking about Navboost: https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417828.pdf Google brought new signals into the core algorithm with March core update: https://searchengineland.com/seo-takeaways-google-elizabeth-tucker-smx-advanced-443070 Gemini 1.5 improved Google’s machine learning architecture: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-next-generation-model-february-2024/#architecture My course if you’d like to learn more about the AI systems behind search: https://www.mariehaynes.com/gemini-era-seo/course/ Frederic Dubut of Bing talking about how we must switch from keyword research to intent research. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTriTRmEf34 Google’s information gain patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US20200349181A1/en