How Google determines relevancy & helpfulness

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Hype or Not? Should you be investing in AI Agents?

Google says every enterprise will soon rely on multi-agent systems - multiple AI agents working together.  That sounds exciting and futuristic, but what I’ve found when talking to my clients is that while agents sound like something we should all be building, there’s little information to help you decide what your business should be doing […]

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Google Quality Raters now rate AI Overviews

Today Google's Quality Rater Guidelines updated September 11, 2025 with some minor changes. I think some of these are worth noting however! Three examples were added to the guidelines that I believe are significant as they all instruct the raters to assess content that is an AI Overview. An example was added of an answer […]

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Understanding the December 2024 Core and Spam updates

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Hype or Not? Should you be investing in AI Agents?

Google says every enterprise will soon rely on multi-agent systems - multiple AI agents working together.  That sounds exciting and futuristic, but what I’ve found when talking to my clients is that while agents sound like something we should all be building, there’s little information to help you decide what your business should be doing […]

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Google Quality Raters now rate AI Overviews

Today Google's Quality Rater Guidelines updated September 11, 2025 with some minor changes. I think some of these are worth noting however! Three examples were added to the guidelines that I believe are significant as they all instruct the raters to assess content that is an AI Overview. An example was added of an answer […]

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What we can learn from the Google creators summit for HCU impacted sites

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Hype or Not? Should you be investing in AI Agents?

Google says every enterprise will soon rely on multi-agent systems - multiple AI agents working together.  That sounds exciting and futuristic, but what I’ve found when talking to my clients is that while agents sound like something we should all be building, there’s little information to help you decide what your business should be doing […]

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Google Quality Raters now rate AI Overviews

Today Google's Quality Rater Guidelines updated September 11, 2025 with some minor changes. I think some of these are worth noting however! Three examples were added to the guidelines that I believe are significant as they all instruct the raters to assess content that is an AI Overview. An example was added of an answer […]

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What is going on with the Site Reputation abuse policy?

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Hype or Not? Should you be investing in AI Agents?

Google says every enterprise will soon rely on multi-agent systems - multiple AI agents working together.  That sounds exciting and futuristic, but what I’ve found when talking to my clients is that while agents sound like something we should all be building, there’s little information to help you decide what your business should be doing […]

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Google Quality Raters now rate AI Overviews

Today Google's Quality Rater Guidelines updated September 11, 2025 with some minor changes. I think some of these are worth noting however! Three examples were added to the guidelines that I believe are significant as they all instruct the raters to assess content that is an AI Overview. An example was added of an answer […]

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The March 2024 Core Update. What to know and how to adapt.

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Hype or Not? Should you be investing in AI Agents?

Google says every enterprise will soon rely on multi-agent systems - multiple AI agents working together.  That sounds exciting and futuristic, but what I’ve found when talking to my clients is that while agents sound like something we should all be building, there’s little information to help you decide what your business should be doing […]

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Google Quality Raters now rate AI Overviews

Today Google's Quality Rater Guidelines updated September 11, 2025 with some minor changes. I think some of these are worth noting however! Three examples were added to the guidelines that I believe are significant as they all instruct the raters to assess content that is an AI Overview. An example was added of an answer […]

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The helpful content system has changed

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Hype or Not? Should you be investing in AI Agents?

Google says every enterprise will soon rely on multi-agent systems - multiple AI agents working together.  That sounds exciting and futuristic, but what I’ve found when talking to my clients is that while agents sound like something we should all be building, there’s little information to help you decide what your business should be doing […]

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Google Quality Raters now rate AI Overviews

Today Google's Quality Rater Guidelines updated September 11, 2025 with some minor changes. I think some of these are worth noting however! Three examples were added to the guidelines that I believe are significant as they all instruct the raters to assess content that is an AI Overview. An example was added of an answer […]

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Thoughts on why big brands dominate Google. And how this is soon likely to change.

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Hype or Not? Should you be investing in AI Agents?

Google says every enterprise will soon rely on multi-agent systems - multiple AI agents working together.  That sounds exciting and futuristic, but what I’ve found when talking to my clients is that while agents sound like something we should all be building, there’s little information to help you decide what your business should be doing […]

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Google Quality Raters now rate AI Overviews

Today Google's Quality Rater Guidelines updated September 11, 2025 with some minor changes. I think some of these are worth noting however! Three examples were added to the guidelines that I believe are significant as they all instruct the raters to assess content that is an AI Overview. An example was added of an answer […]

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Assistant and Search. Did Google just quietly launch a new Search Ecosystem?

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Hype or Not? Should you be investing in AI Agents?

Google says every enterprise will soon rely on multi-agent systems - multiple AI agents working together.  That sounds exciting and futuristic, but what I’ve found when talking to my clients is that while agents sound like something we should all be building, there’s little information to help you decide what your business should be doing […]

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Google Quality Raters now rate AI Overviews

Today Google's Quality Rater Guidelines updated September 11, 2025 with some minor changes. I think some of these are worth noting however! Three examples were added to the guidelines that I believe are significant as they all instruct the raters to assess content that is an AI Overview. An example was added of an answer […]

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Is the helpful content system only a negative classification?

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Hype or Not? Should you be investing in AI Agents?

Google says every enterprise will soon rely on multi-agent systems - multiple AI agents working together.  That sounds exciting and futuristic, but what I’ve found when talking to my clients is that while agents sound like something we should all be building, there’s little information to help you decide what your business should be doing […]

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Google Quality Raters now rate AI Overviews

Today Google's Quality Rater Guidelines updated September 11, 2025 with some minor changes. I think some of these are worth noting however! Three examples were added to the guidelines that I believe are significant as they all instruct the raters to assess content that is an AI Overview. An example was added of an answer […]

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What it (likely) takes to recover following a September 2023 helpful content update drop

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Hype or Not? Should you be investing in AI Agents?

Google says every enterprise will soon rely on multi-agent systems - multiple AI agents working together.  That sounds exciting and futuristic, but what I’ve found when talking to my clients is that while agents sound like something we should all be building, there’s little information to help you decide what your business should be doing […]

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Google Quality Raters now rate AI Overviews

Today Google's Quality Rater Guidelines updated September 11, 2025 with some minor changes. I think some of these are worth noting however! Three examples were added to the guidelines that I believe are significant as they all instruct the raters to assess content that is an AI Overview. An example was added of an answer […]

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What changed with Google’s September 14, 2023 helpful content system update?

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Hype or Not? Should you be investing in AI Agents?

Google says every enterprise will soon rely on multi-agent systems - multiple AI agents working together.  That sounds exciting and futuristic, but what I’ve found when talking to my clients is that while agents sound like something we should all be building, there’s little information to help you decide what your business should be doing […]

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Google Quality Raters now rate AI Overviews

Today Google's Quality Rater Guidelines updated September 11, 2025 with some minor changes. I think some of these are worth noting however! Three examples were added to the guidelines that I believe are significant as they all instruct the raters to assess content that is an AI Overview. An example was added of an answer […]

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Should you remove/noindex content if you have an unhelpful content suppression? My theory.

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Hype or Not? Should you be investing in AI Agents?

Google says every enterprise will soon rely on multi-agent systems - multiple AI agents working together.  That sounds exciting and futuristic, but what I’ve found when talking to my clients is that while agents sound like something we should all be building, there’s little information to help you decide what your business should be doing […]

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Google Quality Raters now rate AI Overviews

Today Google's Quality Rater Guidelines updated September 11, 2025 with some minor changes. I think some of these are worth noting however! Three examples were added to the guidelines that I believe are significant as they all instruct the raters to assess content that is an AI Overview. An example was added of an answer […]

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