Why authors need a voice search strategy<\/h2>\nBy Miral Sattar<\/h3>\n
Have you ever asked Siri on your iPhone to tell you the time or set an alarm? Do you own a smart speaker, one of those voice-controlled search devices that include Amazon’s Echo, and Google Home?<\/p>\n
If not, you probably know someone who does.
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What they all have in common is that they perform voice search through a voice assistant \u00a0on a smart speaker that you speak to.<\/p>\n
Here’s what all of that means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,11],"tags":[722,65,978,317,1120],"class_list":["post-12270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-columns","category-tactics","tag-audiobooks","tag-author-website-seo","tag-miral-sattar","tag-seo","tag-voice-search"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy authors need a voice search strategy - Build Book Buzz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By next year, half of all online searches will be done with voice search. 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