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 […]
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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 […]
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 Does Not Use Quality Raters for Machine Learning Algos
Whenever there is a new quality raters guidelines released by Google, there is always lots of speculation about what Google does with the data from those ratings. And does that include machine learning? Google confirmed that they use quality raters to evaluate potential changes to the search algos. They push out a change and then […]
Google Officially Releases Search Quality Rating Guidelines
Google has officially released their Quality Rating Guidelines, the same guidelines I analyzed earlier this week from a leaked copy. This marks the second time that Google has released a version, having released a stripped down version in 2013. But this is the first time they have publicly and officially released the entire document. Something […]
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 […]
How Google Views Advertising in Quality Rating Guidelines
One thing that is very apparent in the new version of the Google Quality Rater’s Guidelines is the role of advertising on webpages and how it affects overall webpage and website quality and the resulting quality scores. Do Multiple Ads Always Equal Low Quality? First, despite a lot of guidelines governing Google’s views on webpage’s […]