From “Generally reliable” to “Blacklisted”, you can find scores and discussions for many sites whose reliability is frequently discussed by Wikipedia editors. And as a bonus, I’ll explain how to find when a site is used as a source across Wikipedia. Based on helping many companies over the years that have been impacted by major … Read more
This week, Google is introducing a change to Core Web Vitals, notably introducing the Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric, which is set to replace First Input Delay (FID). As the Chief Technical Officer at BrightEdge, I’m excited to delve into what INP entails and how we’ve integrated this new data point into our platform. … Read more
The updated Google Search Quality Raters guidelines last week and added an example of what it considers the “lowest quality pages.” In section 4.7 it states the only mention of using AI and writes, “The website terms of use states that “some articles” are generated by artificial intelligence and may have errors or be out … Read more
Everybody wants to be a master of something, even if it’s a master of flipping burgers. With Google serving up E-E-A-T acronyms for quality standards, we might just need your master burger-flipping skills. But what is E-E-A-T, why do we want it, and is it tasty? Search engine ranking–if you own an online business with … Read more
Google has updated its “Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines,” a comprehensive 170-page document that serves as a framework for quality raters to assess websites effectively. The update on follows the search engine’s latest Core and Spam updates. Insights Into Trustworthiness The updated guidelines provide valuable insights into how Google determines the trustworthiness of webpages and websites. … Read more
Google has updated the Google search quality raters guidelines untrustworthy pages section. The previous version was 168 pages and not it is 170 pages and that previous version was released last November 2023. This update is probably to fit the changes with the new March 2024 core update and spam updates / policy updates. This … Read more
Updated: March 5, 2024. A new cool E-E-A-T/YMYL/Helpful Content/Google Quality template coming soon. Does your site have all it needs when it comes to E-E-A-T/YMYL, Google Helpful Content, and widely understood Google quality? A free 76-point Google Quality Audit Template (worth $500) will be available exclusively for subscribers of my SEO newsletter in mid-March. All … Read more
Google is unleashing multiple measures aimed at improving the quality of its search results beginning today. Google is releasing the March 2024 core update and a number of spam updates (aka March 2024 spam update). The company also incorporated its helpful content system into into the overall core ranking system. In addition, Google announced several … Read more
Google has posted its post-trial debrief document for the DOJ trial that talks about many different things, including stating that its search quality continues to improve. We covered its statement that Microsoft Bing Search had search quality issues earlier. Greg Sterling posted about this on X, writing, “Google boldly claims in its “default search” antitrust … Read more
We had two periods of Google Search ranking volatility this week, one last weekend and one on Thursday or so. Google court documents say search quality has improved and not degraded. Google dropped the see more results in the local panel this week for a period of time until it fixed that bug. Google also … Read more
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