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A set of qualities used in Google's search-quality guidance to assess whether content and its creator appear helpful and trustworthy.

E-E-A-T describes what Google's raters look for in helpful content, so it guides how businesses show real experience, author credentials and trust signals, especially on health, finance and other high-stakes topics.

A financial advice site adds author bios with qualifications, cites primary sources, shows review dates, publishes its editorial policy and adds first-hand product testing notes to its 50 most visited comparison articles.

E-E-A-T is not a single ranking factor or score, and raters do not directly change rankings. Adding author boxes or badges without real expertise or useful content rarely helps, and trust matters most among the four aspects.

E-E-A-T comes from Google's Search Quality Rater Guidelines, where human raters assess sample results so Google can evaluate its ranking systems. Experience is first-hand involvement, expertise is relevant knowledge or skill, authoritativeness is recognition as a go-to source and trustworthiness is accuracy, honesty and safety. Raters apply higher standards to pages that could affect health, finances or safety.