Google has published New Quality Raters Guidelines. It contains significant changes to the Your Money or Your Life section as well as new areas of focus. The following tracks the changes and how they may influence SEO trends. Quality Raters Guidelines are Not Algorithm Hints Let’s get this out of the way. Many people look […]
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Right now, if you try to download the Google search quality raters guidelines PDF, you may be presented with a 404 page not found error. This has happened before where the PDF was removed from the normal location on Google’s servers and was put back a day or so later after Google was made aware
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There is a trend in SEO to seek answers to the Broad Core Update in Google’s Quality Raters Guidelines (Quality Raters Guidelines). But does the Quality Raters Guidelines have clues to Google’s algorithm or is it simply a manual for teaching third party contractors how to evaluate a website? The Quality Raters Guidelines is where
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It was a pretty busy week with a possible Google search algorithm update on Wednesday. In addition, we had two different indexing bugs, one on Wednesday, which was fixed and one last night, which is being worked on. Google launched a new design for the mobile search results snippets, with favicons that kind of make
FirmBee / Pixabay Everyone talks about the Google algorithm automatically ranking web pages into search results based on multiple pieces of information. There’s no way humans could search and order billions of results per second to give us what we are looking for. But, Google does use an army of humans to help it review
Google has published on the Google Research blog the search quality raters guidelines, contractors guidelines to evaluate Google’s search results, specifically for the Google Assistant and voice search results. It is similar to the web search quality guidelines, but it changes in that there is no screen to look at when evaluating such results; instead
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Google updated their search quality raters guidelines PDF document a few days ago. Jennifer Slegg first noticed and documented most of the changes between this updated version and the March version, which focused on upsetting and offensive content. The core change, according to Jennifer Slegg, is the new guidelines around non-English language pages. “This update
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