EAT — also known as Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness — is a big deal when it comes to Google's algorithms. But what exactly does this acronym entail, and why does it matter to your everyday work? In this bite-sized version of her full MozCon 2019 presentation[1], Marie Haynes describes exactly what E-A-T means and how it could have a make-or-break effect on your site.
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Video Transcription
Hey, Moz fans. My name is Marie Haynes, from Marie Haynes Consulting[2], and I'm going to talk to you today about EAT and the Quality Raters' Guidelines. By now, you've probably heard of EAT. It's a bit of a buzzword in SEO. I'm going to share with you why EAT is a big part of Google's algorithms, how we can take advantage of this news, and also why it's really, really important to all of us.
The Quality Raters' Guidelines
Let's talk about the Quality Raters' Guidelines. These guidelines are a document that Google has provided to this whole army of quality raters. There are apparently 16,000 quality raters, and what they do is they use this document, the Quality Raters' Guidelines, to determine whether websites are high quality or not.
Now the quality raters do not have the power to put a penalty on your website. They actually have no direct bearing on rankings. But instead, what happens is they feed information back to Google's engineers, and Google's engineers can take that information and determine whether their algorithms are doing what they want them to do. Ben Gomes, the Vice President of Search at Google, he had a