What 3,000 voice search queries tell us about the ‘Voice Search Revolution’
Do you think voice search is the next “big thing” digital marketers need to watch for? Contributor Bryson Meunier isn’t so sure and feels there are limited marketing opportunities, based on his research.
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Google updates quality raters guidelines with details around non-English language web pages
Google made some small tweaks to their quality raters guidelines on July 27, 2017. The previous update, on March 14, 2017, was much larger.
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Google’s ‘Project Owl’ — a three-pronged attack on fake news & problematic content
Google hopes to improve by better surfacing authoritative content and enlisting feedback about suggested searches and Featured Snippets answers.
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Google did not ban Infowars; did rescind quality example using an Infowars article
Infowars article was used to help illustrate how quality raters might judge content, but raters have no power to censor, ban or penalize pages.
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Google launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in search
Using data from human “quality raters,” Google hopes to teach its algorithms how to better spot offensive and often factually incorrect information.
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What Advanced SEOs Should Know From The Google Raters Guidelines (SMX Advanced Recap)
During this SMX Advanced session, panelists discussed what SEOs need to know about Google’s Search Quality Rating Guidelines, created for the human beings who double-check that the Google algorithm is performing as designed. Columnist Joy Hawkins recap…
What is quality content?
Columnist Patrick Stox takes a comprehensive look at what Google might consider to be “quality content” and adds his own thoughts and tips based on his experience in the SEO industry.
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Google Updates The Search Quality Rating Guidelines
Google has updated their search quality raters guidelines document on March 28, 2016 reducing it from 160 to 146 pages.
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Google’s Quality Rating Guide Leaked Again; Here Is Version Five
Google’s Quality Rating Guidelines document has been leaked once again! Version 5.0 was leaked a few days ago, where Google has reportedly completely revamped the guidelines. Jennifer Slegg has documented most of the new guidelines on her blog. You can also read the full new 160 page…
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In Quality Raters’ Handbook, Google Adds Higher Standards For “Your Money Or Your Life” Websites
Google’s continuing push toward identifying expertise and authority on the web takes another step in the form of a new type of website/landing page classification: “Your Money or Your Life.” It’s explained in detail in a new version of Google’s “Search Quality…
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Study: Many Searchers Choose Google Over Bing Even When Google’s Name Is On Bing’s Results
In a recent study by SurveyMonkey examining SEO assumptions, respondents were given two search result pages, one with a page header labeled “Google” and the other with a page header labeled “Bing,” and asked which page of results they preferred. Even when the page header…
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