Attached is the full Google guidelines for hand-edits. Google allegedly employs thousands of people around the world to hand-edit sites that have been flagged - these are the guidelines that Google gives them. This was on SearchEngineLand but then Google made them take it down, so here it is. Get it while its hot
Thanks for sharing, never knew about this site before... Will check it out and find out more about it
I doubt it, that (1) google will employ thousands of people and (2) the thousands of people never give a word on it
You doubt google will employ 1000's of people ??? A company that makes $3.66 billion profit per year and much of its success is based on the quality of it results pages ....... Google is notorious for keeping its secrets ! how much do you think it engineers could get to release details of their rankings algorithm .... but has this ever happended ???? I have personally seen a recruitment ad for one of these people .... it was part time and hourly based ... I forgot the exact wage but it was good
I don't remember where I saw the posting, since it was last year, but Google has acknowledged that they have about 10,000 employees (mostly in India) whose main job is to manually check sites and look for violations of Google's guidelines. I believe that one of my sites was checked about three months ago because two special pages that I had created just for getting some extra links were suddenly de-indexed, but the rest of the pages stayed in the index and kept their rankings.
They can? remember the cars they used in one of their new service it's like a Google map with every building on a certain road on it, what is that again?
This doc isn't new. Not sure if it's real or not, but I've had it for a while. Nothing to shocking in it either imho.
I have also heard that they have manual review teams. I have heard of at least one person with that job description.
Google does employ people to work for them and manually check websites in order to improve rankings and flag those which violate their guidelines. I am one of those people. They have small teams in almost every country all over the world. I haven't yet heard that the majority is based in India, and doubt that's true. I recently read on the web that they have around 10,000 people employed to improve search results -- I don't know how accurate this number is, though.
I just checked the attachment. I'm surprised you had access to this information (admittedly outdated by a year), since it is protected through an NDA. The person who shared this with you could get in trouble - legal wise, whether they are still employed or not.