Articles Now Being Reviewed?

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   eugbugposted 17 months ago

   I'm sure there will be an official announcement about this, but I just noticed one of my maths articles was professionally reviewed. This is great news. Let's hope it adds authority to articles and keeps Google happy.
   
   
   

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      Matt Wellsposted 17 months agoin reply to this

      There was an official announcement. Here it is.

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      Cristaleposted 17 months agoin reply to this

      That just basically means that they have the right to change, reformat, or even add to your article without your permission. However, this is for the best because it will raise your revenue as well as give your article a higher score.

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   Jodahposted 17 months ago

   That sounds like a positive move, Eugene. Hopefully it is across the board.

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      eugbugposted 17 months agoin reply to this

      Hopefully. I don't know how Google can establish though how someone is an expert. There was a mention of the reviewer's website, but I could just as easily have created a fictitious reviewer profile and mentioned a well known math site.

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   eugbugposted 17 months ago

   Just checked and the reviewer is a Hubpages member who joined 8 years ago. He's a maths teacher and seems to have written the most math articles on Owlcation.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 17 months ago

   That's an interesting development.
   
   A few years back, I must confess that I moved away from the purely factual stuff and more towards articles that have a subjective element.
   
   Like you, I wonder how Google establishes the expertise of articles. For sure, if something is obviously amateurish, then the readers will react adversely, but more subtle problems seem harder to detect.

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   eugbugposted 17 months ago

   A reply back from Barry Schwartz of Seroundtable on the subject. According to Danny Sullivan "We don't have some list of people that if we see are named on a page make it do better"
   
   
   
   https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ymy … 27934.html
   https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ren … 28342.html

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      PaulGoodman67posted 17 months agoin reply to this

      Those are the sorts of answers I would've expected.

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         PaulGoodman67posted 17 months agoin reply to this

         Google will sometimes tell you what they DON'T do, but almost never what they DO do.
         
         I saw Matt's comment above. The official announcement was made 5 years ago! Wow! I can't remember ever having an article being reviewed by an expert, but I could be wrong.
         
         I'm all for it generally.
         
         My only problem is when factually incorrect information is added to one of my articles, which has happened a few times in the past, unfortunately, though presumably by a sloppy editor, rather than an expert reviewer.

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            alexadryposted 17 months agoin reply to this

            I have had an article reviewed probably about 5 years ago by a veterinarian, Dr. Rachel Barrack. It was a nice touch to add credibility. I don't know how Google verifies licenses, but there are websites online where it's possible to verify credentials of most licensed/certified/registered professionals, not sure if Google crawls these.

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               eugbugposted 17 months agoin reply to this

               The problem is any of us could just add text to an article saying that it was reviewed by X, who is an expert. There's no way Google can prove whether the review is or isn't genuine unless there's some some sort of verification mechanism like a database of reviews that the reviewer registers their review on.

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                  alexadryposted 17 months agoin reply to this

                  I see what you are saying. Makes me now perceive websites that are expert reviewed from a different angle. A database would be nice, but then, what if anybody could create fake accounts on the database? Probably there must be a way to create a trusted database.

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                     eugbugposted 17 months agoin reply to this

                     Yes that's true too. A lot of websites now are looking for scans of photo IDs such as a passport to confirm identity of a member with an account (E.g. Fiverr.com) I wonder can they check passport numbers against an official database of the issuing agency to investigate whether they're even genuine?

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                        PaulGoodman67posted 17 months agoin reply to this

                        My impression is that the reputation thing is at the bottom of HP's search engine/traffic problems, at least that's what HP believes.
                        
                        I think that they're try a variety of methods to improve reputation with the expert reviewer thing just being one of them.
                        
                        They certainly seem very busy at the moment, which offers some encouragement.

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                           SerenityHaloposted 17 months agoin reply to this

                           Intriguing. I think adding an expert review is a great idea. It would be nice if it linked to something to show their credentials in the field, etc. I have not had an expert review as of yet.

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   Brenda Arledgeposted 17 months ago

   Hopefully this means imrovement going forward...not one step forward & two steps back

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   bhattucposted 17 months ago

   I hope that such reviews will help in improving the articles.

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   Carb Divaposted 17 months ago

   My editor has asked me to help go through the ones I have on Delishably. 400. It will take a while.

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   eugbugposted 17 months ago

   Whatever about the ads, I think site speed is a major problem. I can't be the only one with slow loading on my phone and those annoying white spaces that I'm always going on about. The problem is that the ads seem to be slowing down the loading of photos. I think the latter should be loaded first, then a reader get on with viewing an article and let ads load at their leisure.

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      PaulGoodman67posted 17 months agoin reply to this

      You seem to come back to focusing on the ads, whatever the thread topic(!) I find it difficult to discuss the issues you mention without knowing and understanding the technical complexities that likely form the background.
      
      Generally, I suspect there might be similarities with the comments saga. There must be some technical reason(s) why comments never seems to get resolved and fully reinstated. The only logic that I can see to having comments on just half a dozen or so niches is that there's some sort of long-term testing going on.
      
      My feeling is that HP are in a bind on some areas of the technical front. There are quite possibly no simple solutions, so they're trapped (at least for now) in some sort of unhappy compromise.

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         eugbugposted 17 months agoin reply to this

         Maybe there just aren't the technical staff to do it. Apart from Dengarden, Owlcation and maybe a few others, the other sites have their social media accounts updated infrequently or not at all, again I guess because there aren't the staff resources to do it.

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            PaulGoodman67posted 17 months agoin reply to this

            By technical, I was referring to things like the coding, site architecture, that sort of thing. They have to strike a balance between things like the functionality and the SEO and try to maximize both.
            
            Staff posting on Twitter or whatever is a completely different thing. I agree that they don't do much but I'm not convinced that matters.

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