What is E-A-T stands for expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness. These three factors are the ones Google uses to measure how much trust it should place in your brand or website. And it helps quality raters to analyze and measure the value of the website’s main content. This means that Google Algorithms is devised to detect certain signals within the website that recognizes the site and its content according to E-A-T and then ranks sites accordingly along with other aspects of its algorithms. It’s not a ranking factor, but it is part of the larger page quality evaluation for your site and thus can have a big impact on your organic visibility

Here what’s those initials mean:

• Expertise: means to have a high level of knowledge. The expertise that is reflected in the website you are trying to promote search engines can tell you are an expert on your business or not.
• Authoritativeness: one needs to show that you are an authority or the authoritativeness of the creator of the main content. And you can get this from the expertise of your writers or yourself. Authoritativeness comes from a good reputation in the industry. It is the measure of how people see your website and the content available on it. When someone sees a website as the go-to source for information on a given topic then that’s authority.
• Trustworthiness: You need to show users they can trust the creator of the main content and the website trustworthiness is important for e-commerce websites that ask users for their credit cards information. It’s the final criteria for your customers to believe in your product/services. They should like you, this is often reflected in the customer’s reviews. Google Algorithms have a lot of data on their customers and therefore they know whom the customers trust.

                        WHY IS E-A-T IMPORTANT

• Use or hire experts

Provides high quality that will be used by others as expert materials when discussing your subject matter. Google loves expert content and especially they reward content that is created by someone with credentials and qualifications. Hiring experts is an essential part of SEO if you want to succeed in the present day competition driven economy. The reason is obvious for this step, without expertise you are missing a crucial piece of E-A-T.

• Keep content up to date

Always keep all your content up to date with the most accurate information. If you are covering topics like YMYL topics like financial advice, medical then keeping content updated is crucial for demonstrating E-A-T this is because they must be maintained, edited, reviewed and updated on regular basis. When you update your content it improves accuracy and relevance.

• Audit your brand

 When you audit your brand it establishes a stronger foundation for its trustworthiness. You can start by asking existing customers base, send them a survey or give a call etc. and ask them about their experience with your company or business. Evaluate how your brand positions itself within your industry and look for a specific way to improve that positioning. After the auditing is done and it reveals that there are a few gaps, create a plan on how to strengthen you brand presence.

• Build content creation framework

All your content must be expertly written and should have links to pages that validate the articles subject matter. Consistent content is a perfect way to establish your authority. Effective content creation framework is one of the most important parts of SEO. All content should be created only for the purpose of the customers and if doesn’t match the sale funnel, it probably doesn’t belong to your site.

What is google discover? Google discover is a personalized mobile feed for each based on their browsing and search history. It shows information and news about the topics that interest you like SEO etc. You could say it’s similar to a social media feed, but without any content from your contacts. It was created in 2017 and was formerly known as the Google feed but in 2017 Google renamed it as ‘discover”

Here are 5 tips to get Google discover traffic:

• Use high resolution image

Pages with high quality images and videos perform better on google discover. Creating high-quality is not about the text aspect of content creation. But it involves visual content types one should keep in mind that the new discover stresses more on visual which includes videos etc. Google recommends large images to be at least 1200px wide and enabled by the max image preview. One should also compress all images to allow fast loading without sacrificing quality. Besides writing high quality content, having high quality, eye-catching images in your content is a good way to gain more screen space and increase engagement.

• Having a mobile friendly website is a must

Your website needs to be mobile friendly as the feed is currently only available for mobile. At the very least you need to be responsive, fast loading website with unlimited or no ads, pop ups or interstitials. You can also analyze the pages that aren’t mobile friendly using Google search console. Google search console (GSC) usability on your site, you can test the pages optimized for mobile and also those that are not and check the difference. Having a fast, responsive site discovery will rank your site higher.

• Create both new and evergreen content

When you have evergreen content on your website, you must keep refreshing it to make sure the content stays relevant and up to date. Google discover will not randomly pick any content to show users, instead it looks for meaningful, quality material that will boost user experience. One should remember that Google discover will always present users with quality content, therefore one should invest on content creation strategy to provide your best and the best option is to write timely content. Content that people will find valuable throughout the year, and this will be beneficial because discover still finds your content useful and you will continuously get traffic.

• Comply with copyrights

Google will not feature websites that feature shared content. Googles corporate policies directly penalizes pages that contain content shared without respecting copyright which may include videos, audios, software music, images etc. therefore it will be difficult for such a page to be featured by Google discover algorithms.

• Publish your content on social media

Another way to optimize your blog posts for discover feeds is to increase your social media feed engagement. When one posts their blog posts/articles on social chances are that your articles might be ranked in google discover. The more of these elements like comments, shares and likes you get will make you post rank higher on user feeds. And the best way to improve your social feed management is to create and post helpful content regularly and this will drive consistent interaction and traffic. Also a good idea is to tell your followers to share your post across all channels.