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. A URL scrape may unearth some surprising results.
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...
There does seem to be an internal rater ranking process; raters are evaluated on their own abilities to rate URLs and must maintain a level of quality to keep the position. Anything you could possibly do to influence a human rater could be...
Depending on what the URLRater determined as the user’s intent, the homepage or a subpage may get a Vital rating. URL rating seems the first step in Google’s manual rating hierarchy; from the introduction: “When you can do URL rating, you will be...