How Does Auto Complete Help SEO

If you have ever used a mobile phone with word recognition, you will probably remember it didn’t always get it right, well Google’s auto complete pretty much does the same thing, but has a much better way of deciding what the next words and letters will be.

Start writing a word into the Google search box and almost immediately you will get a selection of search terms, to save you from having to complete the complete phrase or word. This of course saves you time, which is what Google is trying to achieve, get the results to you as quickly and as accurately as they can.

This also helps for people like me, who are terrible at spelling. When I see the word, I know it is right, but when it is not there, I regularly spell my search term wrong. But this little tool also can help people with their SEO strategy.

This is because the order that the search terms are presented are based on the quantity of searches for those words. For a business wondering what search terms to optimise their website for, can now easily figure out in  the favourite terms and phrases, as they are presented first.

Any SEO company worth its sale, will at least experiment with the auto complete, look for popular search terms that directly relate to the business in question. In their blog, Google has written more information about the predictions in auto complete, to understand the latest updates.