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April 2025 continued the trend of significant changes in the search landscape. Whilst Google didn’t announce another core update (the March one had only just finished, after all), we saw persistent ranking volatility, some eye-opening research on AI Overviews’ impact on organic traffic, and important updates to how Google evaluates AI-generated content. Let me walk … Read more
Many years ago I questioned an author who refused to put outbound links in their web articles. Their response was that the blog posts would be “leaking” any “link juice”. This was their way of saying that any benefits the article had would be undone by linking out. My response was: Never be afraid to … Read more
31st March 2025: Google Confirms You Can’t Add E-E-A-T To Your Web Pages 3rd April 2025: How To Apply E-E-A-T To Your Site & Boost On-Page SEO If you saw both these headlines in Search Engine Journal recently you may be asking yourself which one is right? (Fight, right, Harry Hill?) Google’s John Mueller says … Read more
The acronym E-E-A-T stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. It’s Google’s framework for evaluating the quality of a website’s content, and Google uses teams of people around the world as “Quality Raters”. Practical E-E-A-T is my way of helping you put it into practice. So E-E-A-T is the backbone of any manual analysis of … Read more
February 2025 was yet another month of interesting developments in the SEO world. Whilst we didn’t see any confirmed core updates from Google, there was plenty of volatility, some significant local search changes, and continued evolution in how AI is reshaping search results. If you’re managing a website or running a local business, understanding what … Read more
Now this is a well-worn subject, having to discuss the benefits of blogging for businesses. But this blog post is written from my own unique perspective in over twenty years of blog writing with commercial success. TL;DR Blogs Still Work: Blogging remains effective for businesses, even 20 years after it came about. Blogging Boosts Traffic: … Read more
This morning I was reading a fascinating post about an alleged deterioration in the quality of Google Search. Titled Google Quality Issues: Part of an Intentional Strategy? the piece critiques Google’s search quality, particularly for certain financial queries. I won’t go into those now because my attention was caught at the very first piece of … Read more
2024 has been an amazing year in the digital marketing world, marked by the continued rapid advancement of AI, big shifts in search engine algorithms, and the ever-evolving social media landscape. From the rise and rise of generative AI to the burgeoning importance of authenticity, 2024 has been a year of exciting developments. So without … Read more
E-E-A-T stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. It’s a concept and framework that represents the qualities of a web page. Google’s search quality raters are people who have been trained to look for these elements in web pages that they are assigned to assess. The History of E-E-A-T Originally introduced in 2014, E-A-T was … Read more
Google has just announced today that in its Quality Rater Guidelines, E-A-T is now E-E-A-T. What this means is that the previous Expertise Authoritativeness Trustworthiness Has acquired a new E for Experience and has become: Experience Expertise Authoritativeness Trustworthiness This adds a welcome dimension to the Quality Rater Guidelines framework. Quality Raters Guidelines The first … Read more