What is E.A.T. SEO & why it is vital for your websites?

So what does E.A.T. SEO mean? Below, we take a closer look at why this is important for your websites to rank well in Google.

E.A.T. is an acronym (if you haven’t already guessed!) for:

E = Expertise

A = Authoritativeness

T = Trustworthiness

Keep reading to discover some useful E.A.T. SEO tips and strategies that you can apply to improve your search rankings.

SEO Tips - What is E.A.T.

Let’s examine what each of these elements mean and why they’re important for SEO.

EXPERTISE

To be favoured in the SERPS (search engine ranking positions) your website content must meet these 3 major ranking criteria.

Starting with web content, since Google does not understand content the way human beings do it instead, looks for signals that it can gather about your content to understand how it correlates with how humans assess relevance.

SEO PRO TIP 1: How pages link to each other is one of the well-known signals that Google uses.

It is imperative therefore, that your content resonates well with your target audience by:

a). Acknowledging & addressing their search query, including a descriptive or helpful title in the first instance.

b). Providing as in-depth an answer or solution as might be feasibly relevant to the search query thereby demonstrating your particular expertise.

c). Backing-up statements by providing fact-based evidence such as linking to seminal works or citing other reputable sites on the subject.

SEO Tips- E.A.T. - Why It's A Must Have

AUTHORITATIVENESS

Looking through Google’s algorithmic eyes websites or pages that have no beneficial purpose, ones that make no attempt to help users, or pages that potentially spread hate, cause harm, or misinform or deceive users, will receive their lowest rating.

Creating high quality web pages takes a significant amount of time and effort, expertise and skill too.

When pages are created that are factually accurate for the topic and backed-up by solid expert published opinion, then those pages are most likely to be deemed as being authoritative.

Clear examples of authority sites include:

Bruce Clay – The Father of SEO

Seth Godin – The Ultimate Entrepreneur

SEO TIP 2: Your reputation as an author will affect how your content is viewed. Make sure that what you put out is of the highest quality and contribute to leading publications in your industry.

TRUSTWORTHINESS

Google favours high quality original content. Therefore, it is pointless to adopt a poor short term strategy that will only lead to low ranking penalties and ultimately site oblivion.

Let’s be clear – by poor strategy we mean:

poor-quality-sites-list

E.A.T. SEO – TIPS TO PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER…

The key to E. A. T. SEO is to adopt a strategy right from the very outset that places your target audience at the very heart of every bit of content that you publish.

SEO Tips - Putting it all together

In doing so, you not only benefit by adhering to Google’s content ranking guidelines but also by improving user engagement, lowering bounce rates and ultimately being seen as a primary resource within your industry.

SEO TIP 3: Align your content creation efforts closely with the E.A.T. SEO criteria to send a strong signal to Googlebot that your content is worth ranking well.

THE BENEFITS OF E.A.T. SEO…

There are no doubt many other ranking signals used to determine the top spots.

But Googlebot’s automated web crawler is programmed to use a mix of many different signals to rank good content.

It is understood that the ranking signals use a mix of what, we as humans would agree is great content based upon the E.A.T. SEO criteria.

It has to be said however, that earning full marks from Google for all 3 E.A.T. criteria is certainly not going to be easy.

Therefore, from an SEO tips standpoint assessing your own content based on the E-A-T criteria will most probably send a strong signal that your content is worthy of ranking well.

Need help with establishing your E.A.T.? SEO help from a team of experts is a mere click away.

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Darryl Antonio

Digitalhound are an award-winning London digital marketing agency with 20+ years of expertise in delivering high performance results for its clients. Darryl & his team are proven experts in growth-hacking digital campaigns, helping businesses grow to their fullest potential online while lowering their cost of acquisition. A sought after speaker at high-end Digital Marketing conferences, Darryl is available for private business consultations, seminars and conferences. Call the London team on 020 7873 2476 to arrange a FREE 'no obligation' chat about your business today...

This Post Has 79 Comments

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    Really useful information, well explained and makes perfect sense to evaluate one’s content against!

    1. Darryl Antonio

      Glad you liked it! Let us know how you get on with implementing these tips.

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      Really glad to hear that Billal! You might care to share with us the optimization work that you undertook and the results that you achieved after reading this post?

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    Thanks, Darryl can you please tell me what is the key factor that we need to consider in order to write a content that demonstrates E.A.T

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      There isn’t a single only specific factor that goes into creating content that demonstrates E.A.T but a mixture of things such as writing with authenticity from your own expertise, citing authoritative subject sources to augment your article and establishing a consistent track record of creating quality content.

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    Por eso, ahora es fundamental antes de crear tu contenido, analizar y entender cómo Google interpreta la intención de búsqueda para un conjunto específico de palabras clave y cómo ha de responder tu contenido a ello. Si no, corres el riesgo de meter la pata a fondo.

    1. Darryl Antonio

      Search intent is definitely important however, this post is about establishing your expertise, authority and trustworthiness.

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      You’re welcome. Just follow the guidelines set out in the post and you should be good to go!

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