Daily Update from The SEM Post for 08/01/2022

Today's news from The SEM Post. [View this email in your browser]( Here is your daily news update from The SEM Post. Excerpts: [2022 Update for Google Quality Rater Guidelines – Big YMYL Updates]( We finally have the first Google Quality Rater Guidelines update of 2022, and like usual, it is bringing some pretty significant changes. Google has published a changelog for this update, but as usual, it primarily highlights the broad changes but doesn’t cover all the individual differences that Google made… and there are a lot of […] The post [2022 Update for Google Quality Rater Guidelines – Big YMYL Updates]( appeared first on [The SEM Post](. [Read on »]( [Google Quality Rater Guidelines: The Low Quality 2021 Update]( Google has released a new version of the Google quality rater guidelines, a year after the last update. This new update brings some significant changes, and clarifications that many SEOs will find very interesting when it comes to updating their own sites and taking into consideration the types of sites that Google wants to rank […] The post [Google Quality Rater Guidelines: The Low Quality 2021 Update]( appeared first on [The SEM Post](. [Read on »]( [Rethinking Affiliate Sites With Google’s Product Review Update]( Google released a new product review update two weeks ago, which rewards higher quality product reviews while directly or indirectly negatively impacting low quality product reviews that have become a popular source of content for many websites over the past few years. The rollout affects only English language reviews, and Danny Sullivan from Google has […] The post [Rethinking Affiliate Sites With Google’s Product Review Update]( appeared first on [The SEM Post](. [Read on »]( [New Google Quality Rater Guidelines, Update Adds Emphasis on Needs Met]( Google has released a brand-new Google quality rater guidelines, coming close to a year after the last one was released in December 2019. This update doesn’t have some of the sweeping updates and changes that we’ve seen in some of the previous updates. There are many interesting things Google has added, stressed, or changed, so […] The post [New Google Quality Rater Guidelines, Update Adds Emphasis on Needs Met]( appeared first on [The SEM Post](. [Read on »]( [Google Updates Experiment Statistics for Quality Raters]( It is always interesting to know just how much of an impact Google’s quality raters have on the search results, especially when it comes to both the number of experiments Google conducts with their raters as well as the number of actual updates Google has made based on rater feedback. Google has updated their statistics […] The post [Google Updates Experiment Statistics for Quality Raters]( appeared first on [The SEM Post](. [Read on »]( [Analyzing “How Google Search Works” Changes from Google]( Google has made some new substantial changes to their “How Google Search Works” search documents for website owners. And as always when Google makes changes to important documents with impact on SEO, such as How Search Works and the Quality Rater Guidelines, there are some key insights SEOs can gleam from the new changes Google […] The post [Analyzing “How Google Search Works” Changes from Google]( appeared first on [The SEM Post](. [Read on »]( [Google Quality Rater Guidelines Update: New Introduction, Rater Bias & Political Affiliations]( Google has released a brand new version of the Quality Rater Guidelines, the third one this year. The changes aren’t as extensive as the previous two releases were this year, but the new updates can be an interesting signal as to where Google is planning to take the algo, and this update is no different. […] The post [Google Quality Rater Guidelines Update: New Introduction, Rater Bias & Political Affiliations]( appeared first on [The SEM Post](. [Read on »]( [Google Updates Quality Rater Guidelines: Reputation for News Sites; Video Content Updates; Quality for Information Sites]( We have a brand new version of the Google Quality Rater Guidelines, and there are quite a few updates in several areas, namely news content, YMYL and EAT. This is the first update to the guidelines since the Spring, and Google is definitely focusing on some specific areas in this update – especially news content […] The post [Google Updates Quality Rater Guidelines: Reputation for News Sites; Video Content Updates; Quality for Information Sites]( appeared first on [The SEM Post](. [Read on »]( [Google Makes Major Changes to NoFollow, Adds Sponsored & UGC Tags]( Ever since Google introduced the nofollow link attribute, as a way to help webmasters disavow links they did not want to pass PageRank to, it has been used for many different things. First, it was used specifically for sites to be able to link to sponsors, but without worrying about receiving any link based manual […] The post [Google Makes Major Changes to NoFollow, Adds Sponsored & UGC Tags]( appeared first on [The SEM Post](. [Read on »]( Copyright © 2022 The SEM Post, All rights reserved. Our daily recap of what has happened in the world of SEM. Our mailing address is: The SEM Post 9838 4th StSidney, Bc V8L 2Z3 Canada [Add us to your address book]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( [Mailchimp Email Marketing](