Tag Archives: Raters

Google Confirmed Rating Bug, Rating Volatility, High quality Raters Lower & Google Ads AI Goes Dwell

Google has confirmed that issue where sites would rank during the week and then not rank on the weekends – just wild. We had an unconfirmed Google ranking update this week after having a calm weekend. Google has dropped Appen, one of its largest sources for search quality raters. Google’s SEO starter guide is getting […]

Google Drops Hundreds Of Search Quality Raters In Latests Cuts (Cancels Appen Contract)

The big news from the weekend is that Google has terminated its contract with Appen, one of the largest sources of its third-party human search quality raters sources. Appen announced this in this PDF, saying it received notice of this on January 20th, and the contract ends on March 19, 2024. It goes on to […]

Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines Up to date

Google has updated the Google search quality raters guidelines and it is now only 168 pages, down from 176 pages – so it takes less time to read. I scanned through the changes and I did not see any massive changes like with the December 15, 2022 update. Google said, “None of these involve any […]

EAT – Google Provides Experience To Revised Search Quality Raters Guidelines

The Google search quality raters guidelines were updated and updated in a big way, with a new E added on to EAT. Google is adding experience on top of expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness. Google said that trust is the most important of all four elements here. Adding an E, led to the document getting 9-pages […]

Google Updates Search Quality Raters Guidelines

Google has updated its Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines PDF just a bit over 9 months since the last update. The document keeps getting smaller, from 175 pages in 2020 to 172 pages in 2021 and now to 167 pages in 2022. Here is what Google documented it changed: Refreshed language to be aligned with […]

July Google Product Reviews Replace, High quality Raters Tips, Things To Know Disappear, Core Web Vitals, Bing, Ads & Extra

This week, it was awkwardly quiet with the Google rankings and then Google dropped the bombshell, the July 2022 Google Product Review update touched down. Google also released new search quality raters guidelines, a refresh from the one updated 9 months ago. Google’s Things To Know feature went missing on desktop search. Google no longer […]