The Google white paper I just covered mentions explicitly that Google’s algorithms can detect if a query is related to YMYL, your money your life, related content and then adjust the weights of the ranking algorithm for those specific queries. There has been some debate in the SEO industry if Google is indeed doing this so now this should clear that up.
Google wrote in the white paper on page 13, “our algorithms detect that a user’s query relates to a “YMYL” topic, we will give more weight in our ranking systems to factors like our understanding of the authoritativeness, expertise, or trustworthiness of the pages we present in response.”
This is saying that EAT, expertise, authoritativeness, or trustworthiness is something Google has weights for in their ranking system and if they determine a query is about YMYL then EAT becomes way more important.
Yes, this is primary mentioned in regards to the Search Quality Raters Guidelines but it is also baked into the algorithm for query interpretation (maybe RankBrain related) and for adjusting weights of the ranking system.
This is not unusual, Google does this for lots of sectors like adult, pharmaceuticals, health, finance and so on – so this should not be a surprise to anyone, but having Google spell it out in the YMYL sector and clarify they use EAT signals is very cool to have published in a Google white paper.
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