Voice Search
Queries spoken to an assistant on a phone, a speaker, or in a car, rather than typed into a search box.
Analogy Mental model
Hands covered in flour halfway through kneading, so you ask the speaker in the kitchen what temperature the oven needs.
In practice What you actually do
Spoken queries behave differently in three ways: they are longer and formed as complete questions, they often carry immediate local intent, and they usually expect one definitive answer rather than a list. Write the sentence that answers the question outright, near the top of the page.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
There is no separate discipline to optimise here. What serves voice is answer-focused writing with a clean, factual local presence, which is the same work as everything else in this chapter.
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