How to Rank in Google Dataset Search
Search Engine Journal | October 10, 2018
Google’s AI Blog published an article discussing how Dataset Search works and what signals it uses to rank datasets. Google is already showing dataset rich results and may begin showing more as publishers add the Schema.org markup. Understanding what datasets are and how to rank them is important because it can become a new source of traffic. Google takes the structured data and links it to what it knows through the Knowledge Graph, as well as consider other ranking signals like links, then creates a dataset search index.