{"id":19038,"date":"2021-12-08T15:40:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nobraineragency.com\/seo\/https-www-nobraineragency-co-uk-blog-blog-should-your-ecommerce-business-be-optimising-for-voice-search\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:58:42","slug":"should-ecommerce-optimising-for-voice-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobraineragency.com\/seo\/should-ecommerce-optimising-for-voice-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Should your ecommerce business be optimising for voice search?"},"content":{"rendered":"
According to recent research<\/a>, more than half of UK homes have voice assistant devices, with the two main players being owned by Amazon and Google respectively. It\u2019s clear that the technology has taken off and a study indicates that 65% of adults aged 25-49<\/a> years use a voice-enabled device at least once a day.<\/p>\n Whether it\u2019s a weather forecast you\u2019re after, the latest football scores or some help with the kids\u2019 homework, people do use voice search to find information, but do they use it for online shopping too?<\/p>\n There is evidence to suggest that indeed they do! A 2019 report by Microsoft indicated that 40% of consumers<\/a> had tried to buy something online via voice search. However, 2021 data shows that only around 8% of UK retail websites have enabled voice-activated search<\/a>, which means that 92% have not!<\/p>\n A major difference with voice searches is that they are much quicker and more convenient than typing and you don\u2019t have to scroll through answers to choose one, you are delivered an audio answer within a few seconds.<\/p>\n A more significant difference though, is the actual way that voice searches are done, often using longer and more conversational queries than you would if you were typing a subject or question into a search engine. According to Google, nearly 70% of their voice searches use natural language that can differ from text searches.<\/p>\nHow are voice searches different to text searches?<\/h2>\n
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