Entity salience is a measure of how central or prominent a specific entity is to a document’s overall topic, as scored by natural language processing systems, distinguishing a page’s primary subject from entities merely mentioned in passing.
High entity salience for a target subject helps search engines confidently associate a page with that specific topic, supporting stronger relevance signals than pages where the target entity is only briefly or incidentally mentioned.
Structuring content so the primary target entity is clearly established early and referenced consistently throughout supports strong entity salience signals.
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