Google's quality framework for evaluating content, emphasizing first-hand experience, subject-matter expertise, authoritative sources, and trustworthiness.
E-E-A-T stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. It is a framework from Google's Search Quality Rater Guidelines that human evaluators use to assess content quality. While E-E-A-T is not a direct ranking algorithm, it reflects the qualities that Google's algorithms are designed to reward.
The "Experience" component was added in December 2022 (upgrading the original E-A-T framework). It emphasizes first-hand, real-world experience with the topic being discussed. A restaurant review from someone who ate there is more valuable than one generated from secondhand information.
E-E-A-T is central to how Google evaluates content quality, especially for YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) topics like health, finance, and legal advice. Content that demonstrates genuine experience and expertise ranks better and is more likely to be trusted by both users and AI models.
For AI-generated content, E-E-A-T is particularly important because AI lacks first-hand experience by default. Content strategies must find ways to inject real experience, expert perspectives, and authoritative citations to compensate.
Acta AI builds E-E-A-T signals into every article through its system prompts. The pipeline injects expert framing, specific citations, first-hand experience scenarios (when users provide experience notes), and authority signals. The Acta Score includes a dedicated E-E-A-T dimension that evaluates whether the content demonstrates these qualities.
Learn more about this featureA financial advisor writing about retirement planning demonstrates E-E-A-T through: Experience (mentioning specific client scenarios they have encountered), Expertise (referencing their CFP certification), Authoritativeness (citing IRS publications and academic research), and Trustworthiness (including disclaimers and linking to primary sources).
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