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Google has quality raters that judge how well Google’s search algorithms are doing by rating the search results and the webpages that come up for a wide variety of search queries. They also offer a unique insight into the types of sites that Google wants to see rated highest in their search results, so every SEO should study the guidelines to ensure they are serving searchers with the best possible pages.

New Google Quality Rater Guidelines, Update Adds Emphasis on Needs Met

October 16, 2020 at 9:23 am PST By Jennifer Slegg Leave a Comment

New Google Quality Rater Guidelines, Update Adds Emphasis on Needs Met

Google has released a brand-new Google quality rater guidelines, coming close to a year after the last one was released in December 2019. This update doesn’t have some of the sweeping updates and changes that we’ve seen in some of the previous updates. There are many interesting things Google has added, stressed, or changed, so […]

Google Updates Experiment Statistics for Quality Raters

October 6, 2020 at 5:24 am PST By Jennifer Slegg Leave a Comment

Google Updates Experiment Statistics for Quality Raters

It is always interesting to know just how much of an impact Google’s quality raters have on the search results, especially when it comes to both the number of experiments Google conducts with their raters as well as the number of actual updates Google has made based on rater feedback. Google has updated their statistics […]

Google Updates Quality Rater Guidelines Targeting E-A-T, Page Quality & Interstitials

May 17, 2019 at 5:40 pm PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Updates Quality Rater Guidelines Targeting E-A-T, Page Quality & Interstitials

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 […]

Google Search Quality Rater Guidelines Updated: Beneficial Purpose, Creator Reputation & More

July 24, 2018 at 5:46 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

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

January 8, 2018 at 7:24 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

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

August 3, 2017 at 5:03 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

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 […]

Updated Google Quality Rater Guidelines: Fake News, Dubious Claims & Clickbait Targeted

March 14, 2017 at 1:04 pm PST By Jennifer Slegg

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 […]

Updated Google Quality Rater Guidelines: No More Supplementary Content, Emphasis on E-A-T

April 4, 2016 at 4:48 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

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 […]

Latest Google Search Quality Rater’s Guide: Mobile Rewrite

November 16, 2015 at 9:19 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Latest Google Search Quality Rater’s Guide: Mobile Rewrite

We have another Google Quality Rater’s Guidelines & Handbook, and this one is mere weeks old – October 2015. And like the last time we covered the Quality Rater’s Handbook, Google has completely written major parts of their guidelines. Last year we saw Google put the emphasis on pages that had a high level of […]

All About Supplementary Content in the Google Quality Rater’s Guidelines

July 11, 2014 at 4:36 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

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 […]

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