The prominence or importance of an entity within content, used by search engines to understand topic focus.
Entity salience is a score that represents how central or important an entity is to the document it appears in. A page can mention "Einstein," but if it only mentions him once in a footer, his salience is low. If the whole page is a biography, his salience is high.
Google ranks pages that are about a topic, not just pages that mention it. Increasing the salience of your target entity involves:
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Entity
A clearly defined person, place, organisation or concept that search engines can understand and connect across the web (for example, a specific business, brand or neighbourhood).
Entity Linking
Connecting text or content to recognised entities in databases like Wikidata or the Knowledge Graph.
Knowledge Graph
A structured database used by search engines to store and connect entities and their attributes, powering rich results and answer experiences.
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