We do our best to be mindful of Google's Content Quality Guidelines and know that a human rater may review the page quality of the content we provide for consumption by users. There's been a lot of talk about quality content in the SEO world for...
I always find it useful to look at this as a Google quality rater. Panda and Penguin, Google's major algorithmic updates targeting thin content and unnatural linking practices respectively, have forced us to evolve.
In practice it simply requires a manual search quality rater to monitor key verticals daily, analyzing backlink profiles, domain age, and other key telltale giveaways to prevent those sites from surfacing.
A new version of Google’s human rater handbook has hit the web. The 161-page General Guidelines document, version 3.27 dated June 22, 2012, seems largely unchanged from last year, but has added a section instructing reviewers how to rate page quality.
At that time, a person claiming to be a Google rater had said in a forum that they processed between 30 to 60 of these evaluations an hour. You Just Might Be a Human Rater Insatiably curious blogger PotPieGirl stumbled upon an indexed copy of...
Both Leapforce and Lionbridge limit rater jobs to one household or IP address, though as in other types of work-from-home jobs, there really is no way to tell if the person who took the test is the one actually performing the ratings:
Depending on what the URL Rater determined as the user’s intent, the homepage or a subpage may get a Vital rating. So, assuming you’re not a former president, international brand, or celebrity, let’s look at the other ratings to see how you could...
But as recent Google rater guidelines show, LinkedIn profiles are considered relevant in search results, at least for individuals. LinkedIn has announced the creation of 160,000 company profiles as part of their career social networking site.
Updates to the Google Quality Rater guidelines have popped up, and Brian Ussery has written up a nice summary of the revised standards. This is deemed spam in the rater's guidelines. There's good news for those who have embraced social media.
We've blogged numerous times about Google and their quality rater program. Quality Rater, Chinese Language Ads Quality Rater - German Language Quality Rater, French Language (Work in U.S. A quick note to let you know that once again Google is...
Google Rater Hub - Details Of Human Review System Unveiled Via Threadwatch (and its new man in charge, Aaron Wall), word that MSN Search is also using quality raters to revew and rate results. We've posted in the past about quality raters at Google...
We've posted about Google's quality rater program several times including here and here. Do you speak and read Spanish have "experience" in Spain and other Spanish speaking countries? If so, than Google has just published a position opening (it's a...
Google Rater Hub - Details Of Human Review System Unveiled. Search Engine Watch Forums "I can already see this story light up all search industry media like a Christmas tree. Q&A Session With Jim Lanzone, VP of Ask Jeeves
In a quick search this morning, I come across "quality rater" positions posted for people who speak the following languages: About three months ago I posted about Google looking for "quality raters" to evalaute advertising.
Google Secret Lab, Prelude from Henk van Ess's new Search Bistro blog looks at how Google uses human reviewers to improve search quality. Ess has a screenshot and a Flash movie of how the system works, for Google's temporarily hired Q&A checkers.
