How Google determines relevancy & helpfulness

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Google changed their helpful content guidelines to emphasize good “Main Content”

Google recently made substantial updates to my favorite piece of search documentation: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. For years, this has been my favourite Google documentation because it reflects the exact principles Google is training its machine learning ranking systems to replicate. It amazes me how we don't talk more about this document. As an […]

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Build an OKF brain like mine!

Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working on my own OKF structure. I’ve essentially built my own personal brain, and today I want to show you how it […]

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Understanding the December 2024 Core and Spam updates

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Google changed their helpful content guidelines to emphasize good “Main Content”

Google recently made substantial updates to my favorite piece of search documentation: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. For years, this has been my favourite Google documentation because it reflects the exact principles Google is training its machine learning ranking systems to replicate. It amazes me how we don't talk more about this document. As an […]

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Build an OKF brain like mine!

Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working on my own OKF structure. I’ve essentially built my own personal brain, and today I want to show you how it […]

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

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Google changed their helpful content guidelines to emphasize good “Main Content”

Google recently made substantial updates to my favorite piece of search documentation: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. For years, this has been my favourite Google documentation because it reflects the exact principles Google is training its machine learning ranking systems to replicate. It amazes me how we don't talk more about this document. As an […]

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Build an OKF brain like mine!

Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working on my own OKF structure. I’ve essentially built my own personal brain, and today I want to show you how it […]

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What is going on with the Site Reputation abuse policy?

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Google changed their helpful content guidelines to emphasize good “Main Content”

Google recently made substantial updates to my favorite piece of search documentation: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. For years, this has been my favourite Google documentation because it reflects the exact principles Google is training its machine learning ranking systems to replicate. It amazes me how we don't talk more about this document. As an […]

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Build an OKF brain like mine!

Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working on my own OKF structure. I’ve essentially built my own personal brain, and today I want to show you how it […]

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

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Google changed their helpful content guidelines to emphasize good “Main Content”

Google recently made substantial updates to my favorite piece of search documentation: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. For years, this has been my favourite Google documentation because it reflects the exact principles Google is training its machine learning ranking systems to replicate. It amazes me how we don't talk more about this document. As an […]

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Build an OKF brain like mine!

Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working on my own OKF structure. I’ve essentially built my own personal brain, and today I want to show you how it […]

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The helpful content system has changed

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Google changed their helpful content guidelines to emphasize good “Main Content”

Google recently made substantial updates to my favorite piece of search documentation: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. For years, this has been my favourite Google documentation because it reflects the exact principles Google is training its machine learning ranking systems to replicate. It amazes me how we don't talk more about this document. As an […]

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Build an OKF brain like mine!

Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working on my own OKF structure. I’ve essentially built my own personal brain, and today I want to show you how it […]

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

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Google changed their helpful content guidelines to emphasize good “Main Content”

Google recently made substantial updates to my favorite piece of search documentation: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. For years, this has been my favourite Google documentation because it reflects the exact principles Google is training its machine learning ranking systems to replicate. It amazes me how we don't talk more about this document. As an […]

Continue Reading

Build an OKF brain like mine!

Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working on my own OKF structure. I’ve essentially built my own personal brain, and today I want to show you how it […]

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

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Google changed their helpful content guidelines to emphasize good “Main Content”

Google recently made substantial updates to my favorite piece of search documentation: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. For years, this has been my favourite Google documentation because it reflects the exact principles Google is training its machine learning ranking systems to replicate. It amazes me how we don't talk more about this document. As an […]

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Build an OKF brain like mine!

Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working on my own OKF structure. I’ve essentially built my own personal brain, and today I want to show you how it […]

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Is the helpful content system only a negative classification?

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Google changed their helpful content guidelines to emphasize good “Main Content”

Google recently made substantial updates to my favorite piece of search documentation: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. For years, this has been my favourite Google documentation because it reflects the exact principles Google is training its machine learning ranking systems to replicate. It amazes me how we don't talk more about this document. As an […]

Continue Reading

Build an OKF brain like mine!

Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working on my own OKF structure. I’ve essentially built my own personal brain, and today I want to show you how it […]

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

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Google changed their helpful content guidelines to emphasize good “Main Content”

Google recently made substantial updates to my favorite piece of search documentation: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. For years, this has been my favourite Google documentation because it reflects the exact principles Google is training its machine learning ranking systems to replicate. It amazes me how we don't talk more about this document. As an […]

Continue Reading

Build an OKF brain like mine!

Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working on my own OKF structure. I’ve essentially built my own personal brain, and today I want to show you how it […]

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

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Google changed their helpful content guidelines to emphasize good “Main Content”

Google recently made substantial updates to my favorite piece of search documentation: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. For years, this has been my favourite Google documentation because it reflects the exact principles Google is training its machine learning ranking systems to replicate. It amazes me how we don't talk more about this document. As an […]

Continue Reading

Build an OKF brain like mine!

Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working on my own OKF structure. I’ve essentially built my own personal brain, and today I want to show you how it […]

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

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Google changed their helpful content guidelines to emphasize good “Main Content”

Google recently made substantial updates to my favorite piece of search documentation: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. For years, this has been my favourite Google documentation because it reflects the exact principles Google is training its machine learning ranking systems to replicate. It amazes me how we don't talk more about this document. As an […]

Continue Reading

Build an OKF brain like mine!

Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working on my own OKF structure. I’ve essentially built my own personal brain, and today I want to show you how it […]

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