Why ‘Information Gain’ is the New SEO Ranking Factor in 2025

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Why ‘Information Gain’ is the New SEO Ranking Factor in 2025

Information gain SEO is a way to improve search engine results pages, while combating copycat content and AI Overviews. It provides an opportunity to optimise your existing content, targeting your audiences purchasing journey.

Understanding Information Gain

Information gain is content covering concepts and entities of Google's Knowledge Graph. It is about creating content that is relevant to user search intent based on new information on existing topics or creating content from fresh with new perspectives. 

Basically, information gain measures the information your content provides in response to a search query. While it may sound new, Google has been using it since 2022, as part of it's Helpful Content Update.

Why ‘Information Gain’ is the New SEO Ranking Factor in 2025
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Search engines calculate your web pages information gain score, determining if your content provides value to the search intent. It also takes the degree of unique content that you provide that readers cannot find elsewhere. What many website owners don't realise is that information gain has an impact on your SEO ranking, and is a valuable key to featuring in Google's Featured Snippets and AI Overviews.

Benefits of Information Gain SEO

When you focus on information gain SEO strategies, you can:

How to Incorporate Information Gain into Your SEO Strategy

Information gain is the best way to eliminate copycat and low-quality content. We recommend incorporating information gain into your SEO strategy with the following tips:

Information Gaps

Information gain is all about sharing your knowledge and expertise, ideally this is knowledge no one else has. When you look through your competitors content, you can identify gaps in their content marketing strategy that you can take advantage of.

Take a look at what additional information these topics need. Chances are you will find numerous opportunity to create fresh content that engages your audiences, filtering out older content, while gaining a competitive edge.

Use Data

Originality is essential when creating informational gain content, but how do you do it? In order to create unique content, conduct a study and publish your findings. With enough data at hand, you can publish a case study or white paper, 

Conclusion

Business owners need to understand the importance of sharing fresh and informative content that provides value to your audience. Information gain may sound boring, but its about delivering value in an intentional way.  If you need help creating a customised content strategy that focuses on information gain, contact Genie Crawl today.

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