01People-first content
Google’s ranking systems aim to reward helpful, reliable content written for people, and it publishes self-assessment questions on expertise, originality and effort [1].
Its Search Quality Rater Guidelines describe how raters judge experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trust, known as E-E-A-T [2].
02How content is produced
Google says it rewards quality however content is produced, but that using automation mainly to manipulate rankings breaks its spam policies [3].
Scaled content abuse, many pages made mainly to rank, with little value, is a named spam policy [4]. That’s why each piece has a named writer and editor.
03Structure for search
Article structured data helps Google understand the headline, author and dates of a piece [5].
References
- [1]Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content · Google Search Centraldevelopers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content
- [2]Search Quality Rater Guidelines · Googlestatic.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterhub.com/en//searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf
- [3]Google Search’s guidance about AI-generated content · Google Search Central Blog, 2023developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/02/google-search-and-ai-content
- [4]Spam policies for Google web search · Google Search Centraldevelopers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies
- [5]Article structured data · Google Search Centraldevelopers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/article