Introduction

In this episode, search professionals Olaf Kopp and Marie Haynes discuss the concept of Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness in Google’s algorithms in great detail. You’ll learn what E-A-T is and how Google likely uses E-A-T in their algorithms including information on entities, the knowledge graph, the knowledge vault, and more. At the end of the episode, Olaf gives very specific tips on how to improve E-A-T in ways that Google’s algorithms should reward. Newsletter episode 234 https://www.mariehaynes.com/newsletter/episode-234-light-version/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Links mentioned in this talk: Search quality rater guidelines: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterhub.com/en//searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf Glenn Gabe on Phantom updates: https://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/penguin-2-google-phantom-update-may-2013/ Google’s NLP tool https://cloud.google.com/natural-language Knowledge graph API https://carlhendy.com/knowledge-graph-search/ Jason Barnard on entity hubs for authors https://kalicube.com/learning-spaces/faq/knowledge-panels/the-3-step-process-to-getting-a-knowledge-panel-for-an-author/ Koray Gübür on creating topical authority https://www.oncrawl.com/technical-seo/importance-topical-authority-semantic-seo/ Diffbot NL tool to visualize entities as a graph https://demo.nl.diffbot.com/ Tf-Idf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf A few of Olaf’s articles: https://searchengineland.com/google-mum-update-seo-future-383551 https://searchengineland.com/google-eat-possible-evaluation-signals-382799 https://blog.searchmetrics.com/us/unwrapping-secrets-seo-semantic-google-search/ https://www.kopp-online-marketing.com/entities-from-unstructured-content https://www.kopp-online-marketing.com/googles-semantic-search-engine Contact Olaf: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olafkopp/ https://twitter.com/Olaf_Kopp Submit a question for the next Q&A Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc Contact Marie and the MHC team: https://www.mariehaynes.com/contact help@mariehaynes.com https://twitter.com/Marie_Haynes https://twitter.com/mhc_inc