Most of the data collected via WOT is from human raters. Web of Trust (WOT) and Human Intelligence I've completed a lot of Penguin work since April 24, 2012 (more than I ever wanted to if I'm being honest).
Upholding quality content on the web has been a priority for Google for some time, and is reflected in its Panda algorithm update, among other initiatives like its human quality raters. Back in the day, the “gatekeepers” of information were the...
By improving their algorithm and supplementing their spam control with Human Quality Raters, Google has made it increasingly difficult to manipulate search rankings via spammy backlinks. Link building has always been a risk:reward proposition.
In addition to advising website owners to ask 23 questions about the quality of their own content, we got a small peek at some things Google advises its team of human quality raters to look for in terms of page quality, which means you should pay...
However, the feedback from Google's human raters no doubt play some part in the roughly 500 algorithmic tweaks that occur every year. A new version of Google’s human rater handbook has hit the web. Here's a look at the page quality rating task page...
Google has been using human quality raters for some time to evaluate and troubleshoot the algorithm by rating search results. A June 25 tweet from the official Google account on Twitter announced the release of Panda 3.8, a data refresh they said...
Insatiably curious blogger PotPieGirl stumbled upon an indexed copy of Google’s training manual for human URL quality raters in October. The actual influence of these human raters is debatable; many believe they are used in troubleshooting and...
The science itself is imprecise, so much so that Google has hired an army of human Search Quality Raters. Dear Bill Barol, Let me open this letter by saying that I am saddened by the evident lack of depth and breadth in your reading list that has...
There has been much made of "trust rank" and the introduction of human search quality raters lately, but perhaps this patent may be the basis for its integration in the SERPs. There is also mention of a "primary authority" with ultimate control...
Google doesn’t only use its human quality raters to create decision trees. In this case the correlation between a number for duplicate content and a number based on negative reviews by manual quality raters is plotted.
Last month, we wrote about how Google’s human search quality raters assign URL ratings, based on their leaked 120+ page training manual. How to Optimize for Human Search Quality Raters - And Do You Even Want To?
In a strange twist of fate, PotPieGirl found Google’s training manual for human URL quality raters by simply doing a Google search. Important scoring factors for URL Raters (taken from throughout the guide):
Is it possible that human raters, which Google admitted were in the mix early on, could be the reason why a site would be hit harder in one country than another? Here’s a look at some new statistics showing which websites in Germany, France, and...
Back when Panda came out we learned trust was an issue, with Google specifically mentioning that human raters were asked questions such as "Does this site have excessive ads? Much like the devastation unleashed on unsuspecting sites in the U.S.in...
Excessive ads: This was a question Google asked of human raters, hinting that excessive ads are a sign that a site isn't trustworthy. It's now been more than a month since Google's Panda update rolled out in the U.S.
We also found out that a piece of the Panda update included Google seeking human raters as a check on their results. And just as Blekko uses human curators to influence results, Google has turned to its users -- first by introducing a Chrome...
It seems Google is using outside human raters, at least in part, as a form of quality assurance. Singhal said they asked raters questions like "Would you be comfortable giving this site your credit card?
How Google may Manage Reputations for Reviewers and Raters - SEO by the Sea Human-flesh Search Engines Unearth Dark Side of Online Community by Jonathan Allen The Importance of Localized Content - Local SEO Takes Center Stage by Ray "Catfish" Comstock
Google Quality Raters Leaving Traces When They Visit Sites This morning I reported at SER that Google's EWOQ Search Referral String are being found in webmasters web analytics tools. This EWOQ is the place for Google quality raters to leave...
I've never seen any solid evidence of results being hand selected by Google (and the quality raters we're written about before have not been shown to be manipulating results). So kill off the bad stuff with a human and sure, insert a good...
