There is a brand new version of the Google Quality Rater Guidelines, and here are all the changes Google has made to the guidelines and why these changes are important. The new version is dated May 16, 2019, and replaces the one released back in 2018. One major take away is that Google is moving […]
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Google Removes Search Quality Rater Guidelines PDF
A few days after Google released its first new version of the quality rater guidelines of the year, Google has pulled the file from the site. It now goes to a 404 page. Google’s blog post from 2015 about releasing the guidelines from a few years ago still links to the URL where the file […]
Google Search Quality Rater Guidelines Updated: Beneficial Purpose, Creator Reputation & More
It has been a year since we last saw Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines updated, but they released a brand new version over the weekend. Here is what has changed, with commentary about why it is important for site owners and tips they can take away from it to incorporate into their own sites. Once […]
Insights from Google’s Voice Search Quality Rater Guidelines
Google has released quality rater guidelines specifically for voice search, the first time they have published guidelines specifically around the evolving world of voice search and assistant responses for search queries. While most will refer to them as the voice search quality rater guidelines, the official name is “Evaluation of Search Speech – Guidelines.” For […]
Updated Google Quality Rater Guidelines: International Search Results & Conspiracy Theories
Google has once again very quietly updated their Google Quality Rater Guidelines with a brand new version. This update comes as the third update this year so far (following ones in March and May), only months after we saw major changes with fake news. There are some notable changes, especially for those SEOs who […]
Google Updates Quality Rater Guidelines for YMYL & Offensive Results
Google has made another update to the Google Quality Rater Guidelines, coming only a couple of months after the last release, which saw major changes made to target fake news, science denail and clickbait, among other things. This updates sees Google bring added clarification to specific areas of the guidelines and other minor changes. The […]
Updated Google Quality Rater Guidelines: Fake News, Dubious Claims & Clickbait Targeted
A year after the last Quality Rater’s Guidelines were released by Google, we have a brand new version. And it has some pretty interesting changes – Google is explicitly declaring fake news sites as low quality. And among the other sites being targeted? Those that use clickbait and those with dubious science claims. Hate sites […]
Google Tackles Fake News, Inaccurate Content & Hate Sites in Rater Guidelines Update
It seems that it isn’t just users who are annoyed at the prevalence of fake news in search results and social media these days. Google has made some new and very specific changes to their Quality Rater Guidelines to target fake news, as well as other types of sites including hate sites, “monstrously inaccurate” information […]
Updated Google Quality Rater Guidelines: No More Supplementary Content, Emphasis on E-A-T
Here we go again! A brand new version of the Google Quality Rater Guidelines has been released. With this version we see some interesting changes. Most noticeably is the de-emphasis of supplementary content, surprising since previous versions have stressed the importance of the additional supplementary content there is on the page – or the negative […]
All About Supplementary Content in the Google Quality Rater’s Guidelines
There’s been a lot of speculation about the Supplementary Content that Google refers to extensively in their new Google Quality Rater’s Guidelines that the company recently rewrote. One of the things they want raters to check for is whether or not there’s helpful Supplementary Content that enhances a webpage, and ensuring there’s no Supplementary Content […]