E-E-A-T

E-E-A-T stands for experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness, the qualities Google's quality rater guidelines ask human evaluators to assess in a page and its author.

It is not a score in any algorithm, and no tool can report your E-E-A-T as a number. It is a description of what the systems are trying to approximate, which makes it useful as a checklist and misleading as a metric.

The checkable parts are concrete: a named author with stated credentials, first-hand evidence rather than summary, citations to primary sources, and a site that says who runs it. For health, legal and financial topics, missing credentials is a high-severity problem rather than a nicety.

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