I Was a Google Manual Site Assessor for a Year. Learn Everything I know.

Nice post OP, i think it is unfair for the OP because it seems he just share a small part of what he knows.

Please keep up the good work.
 
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In spirit of furthering discussion, I would say that IMO some of the most important stuff in that document is the stuff to do with EAT and how Google expects the raters to grade/scale/score sites using the EAT scale.

Basically IMO it is a good insight into how Google algorithmically checks a sites levels of EAT, because search engine raters are basically "quality control" for algorithm tweaks.

If the google docs are saying "look for these signs for quality pages with good levels of EAT" then you can be sure as shit those are the same things they have programmed into the algorithm in some way or another.

In summary, again IMO, the basic "lower level" info about obvious spam triggers (thin affiliate/malware/spun content etc) that we all should know about anyway are not really that enlightening, however the information about grading and assessing EAT levels is very useful :)

**for those that haven't read, EAT stands for expertise/authority/trust
 
Thanks for sharing G's insider information.
Can you help me to find out why my adsense request declined two times, also what changes (in less effort & time) in my site would take me into their program?
 
In OP's defense (regardless of whether he's real or not, no fucks given), I do have a friend who did this and it really isn't that hard to become a manual site assessor really. Pay is pretty minimal and google does use compartmentalization - judging by what OP is saying, I've pretty much heard the same stuff - it's boring as fuck and isn't much of a job really. They do get guidelines to follow too, so yeah.
 
I had the same position as OP temporarily to get experience from the other side of the field during the original panda updates (contracted through leapforce). The stuff he is saying is true; however like he said it is a very subjective job. They give you subjective guidelines, and so you get subjective results, and then they critique you for your interpretation of their guidelines. I don't recall 200 pages of info, but there was a big pdf packet we were tested on. All of this page rating is as vague as it sounds; I'm convinced they were using us mostly as data to improve their algorithm, and less for penalizing specific sites.
 
So there is also someone who decide which site move at 1st page and wich site move at 100th page..
with this knowledge i can asume that
1st. if i work on google team and i have a site i will move it manually to 1st page no matter of what . "if its normal site no spam or anything with craps"
2nd. i can paid from someone to move his site at 1st page with some keywords. "and i can be paid a lot of money thought"
3rd. i can be mistaken and move a site that deserve 1st page at 1000st page "so some good site's with good seo deserve something better but who gonna give'them ?? "
4rd. google's argorithm is from and in one point .. the rest is manual work "so even google hasen't the perfect automate system that we beilived it does"


Nice mate . thanks for sharing .. now we know what we have to do ..
with RED BIG LETTERS the only word that matter's

"Dear google team , i can pay off the table money to give me 1st page" just contact me ..
and the rest its easy .. ok now the whole world can be seo developers .. lol
 
Hm..If you were Google manual site accessor, so what soft did you use to detect the affiliate networks? I think not all webmasters know that there is some soft which can find the cross-sections via websites existed on the network, for example, some HTML blocks that are similar or some CSS that is similar on websites. When you are building your websites for network, you can even not suspect anything suspicious, but Google has some algorithms that can detect, so please, answer this question as accurately as you can. Thank you!
 
Really interesting post, I hope this is based on truth ( and I also hope you change your mind and post more on the subject! ). People are naturally doubtful about claims like this - it's just human nature.
 
Thanks, Vladamir, keep posting and ignore the sceptics ;) One interesting thing you mentioned is the general bias when it comes to Amazon sites, pretty understandable, I'd say 98% of all sites primarily linking out to Amazon are pure crap.

What I'd love to know: Are there similar signs that were instantly making you think "Yet another crappy thin affiliate"? Design elements, e.g. the typical "salespages" with huge call to action/buy now buttons, "only today", "5 left at the price of XX", fishy looking testimonials? The use of certain affiliate networks? Placement of ads on a page irrespective from the number of ads or size?

On the other hand are there typical optical elements/structures that would make an obviously commercial site look much more trustworthy than others? Something like the positive counterpart of the orange Amazon shopping cart button.
 
Agreed - this reeks of fake. Nothing mentioned in this so called testing requires manual inspection. All BS.
 
interesting even there are here too many sceptics :D
Let 's wait for more "revelations" :D
 
I lost around 35 amazon aff. websites 1 year ago, I had received an email from Big G at that time : Thin Content...I understand better why lol :)
 
[h=2]I Was a Google Manual Site Assessor for a Year. Learn Everything I know.[/h]
Well, there was no claim to know much.

I was a Bing Assessor for about 5 minutes for LionBridge, or Appen, I don't even remember, so I'm assuming OP did something similar. It was horrible work and there isn't really anything you couldn't figure out by working at that job.

Here's the key, "Don't Build Crap Sites".

Take the time to make them look good, buy, yes 'buy', a Premium theme or join a club. It has little to do with ratios or content to an extent. If you making a site for humans, beauty goes a long way.
 
I spent 2014/2015 as a manual reviewer. The bottom line is Google wants content to be king. My real world experience shows link profile is still king. The manual reviews focus mainly on entertainment, news, and health sites. I would say those 3 categories made up 75% to 80% of what we had to review. We also reviewed YouTube videos which focused mainly on music with a smaller percentage of entertainment. A site's trustworthiness is very important to Google as well. It is important to have a contact us page and about us and if you do any type of transactions, SSL and a a refund policy.

Though it was never disclosed, I had the impression that we were evaluating for their algorithm. The current one and one they are working on. We were given 2 columns of different results for the same query. That is what makes me think we were evaluating for 2 sets of algorithms.
 
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Guys ,this looks like huge BS to me to be honest..but I will be open and hope OP will prove I'm wrong...but as someone who is in IM for more than decade...well...will see in future..but till now..looks like BS.
OP...don't get me wrong...I don't know you..and you may talking the true..but process you describe,while can be marked as usefull , is not looking like something special...As I understand you didn't work as Google review assessor but as someone who is looking for potentially suspicious sites and pass them to Google manual review team....well I hope you will prove me wrong and I will continue to follow this thread..to see where it will end...sorry for bad English...I'm not native speaker
This is just my opinion based on what I sow here and of course I can be wrong..any way thanks for sharing your toughts and experince...
 
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