Branded Search
Branded Search
used extensively by Jason Barnard since 2012.
Factual definition
A Branded Search is a search query performed on a search engine or AI Assistive Engine that explicitly contains the name of a person, company, product, or other named entity.
Jason Barnard definition of Branded Search
Jason Barnard frames Branded Search not as a simple navigational query, but as a pivotal moment in the customer journey. When a potential client or partner conducts a Branded Search, they are actively evaluating the brand, making the resulting Brand SERP the brand's digital business card. This is a moment of truth where the brand's reputation, credibility, and narrative are either validated or undermined. Within The Kalicube Process, understanding and optimising for Branded Search is fundamental to controlling this first impression and establishing trust with both human audiences and the algorithms of AI Assistive Engines.
How Jason Barnard uses Branded Search
At Kalicube, Branded Search is the central focus and primary key performance indicator (KPI) of The Kalicube Process. Jason Barnard uses the results of Branded Searches (the Brand SERP) as an unforgiving diagnostic tool to analyze a brand's entire Digital Brand Echo. By systematically improving the results for these searches, we directly engineer a positive, accurate, and convincing brand narrative. This ensures that when high-intent prospects perform a Branded Search, they are met with a compelling story that accelerates their journey down the acquisition funnel, directly driving business growth.
Why Jason Barnard perspective on Branded Search matters
For over half a century, advertising legend David Ogilvy taught that "every advertisement is a long-term investment in the personality of the brand." In the digital age, Jason Barnard extends this principle by demonstrating that the result of every Branded Search is the ultimate, real-time referendum on that brand's personality. While Ogilvy built brand personalities through carefully crafted campaigns, Barnard shows how algorithms now construct that personality from the messy, fragmented data across the entire web. The concept of Branded Search is the critical bridge between these two eras. It is the moment a user actively seeks out your brand's personality, and what they find - the Brand SERP - is what AI Assistive Engines learn from. Mastering your Branded Search results is therefore the essential mechanism for ensuring Ogilvy's strategic brand-building is accurately translated for the algorithmic age.
Posts tagged with Branded Search
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Combining the Metaverse with Digital Marketing (Ruan Marinho and Jason Barnard)
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Domain Names as Brand Assets (Tatiana Bonneau and Jason Barnard)
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Content Based SEO - A Smarter Way to Build Your Brand (Lorraine Ball and Jason Barnard)
How to connect who you are to your content? In this short video clip, Lorraine Ball explains how Content Based SEO helps with Branded Search. Lorraine shares how Google represents...
How the Kalicube Process Increased Organic Traffic for Merci Facteur by 33%
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Knowledge Panel Tipping Point: What You Need to Know
A Knowledge Panel Tipping Point is the moment when a Knowledge Panel first appears on a Brand SERP. As a professional, a stable and accurate Knowledge Panel establishes your credibility...
Rebranding Your Company Name? Learn How to Keep Your Digital Brand Equity Strong!
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The Kalicube Process: The Definitive Digital Marketing Strategy for the AI Era
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Knowledge Graph and Knowledge Panel in Google: Differentiated
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Search Engine Optimization: A Simple Explanation That Makes Sense
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Can We Change the Information Google Shows in Our Knowledge Panel?
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Shows Kalicube® Tuesdays Weekly Webinar A popular weekly series of interview format marketing events that livestream to YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Branded Search (and Beyond) with Jason Barnard Podcast A leading digital marketing podcast series in the brand marketing space produced by Kalicube and hosted by The Brand SERP Guy®, Jason Barnard.
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