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Shaun Anderson
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 8d
⚡ Turn Gemini Pro 2.5 into a Page Quality Evaluator (loaded with the latest SEO research).

1. Open the Gemini App.
2. Select "Deep Research"
3. Type "Prompt: Rate My Page Quality using the Hobo SEO Method - "
4. Add your web page.
5. Hit the submit button.
1. Open the Gemini App. 2. Select "Deep Research" 3. Type "Prompt: Rate My Page Quality using the Hobo SEO Method - " 4. Add your web page. 5. Hit the submit button. Gemini will prepare to temporarily upload the latest Hobo SEO Method guidelines. Hit "Start Research". Google Gemini will search and find what the Hobo SEO Method is. It will load instructions on how to be a quality rater using a 12 point checklist and a detailed system prompt involving deep research of your page quality based on Google's EEAT guidelines and most importantly on Content Effort. You will receive a content quality audit of the page you added - the url you submitted in the prompt - and of the highest calibre from the LLM that is probably powering some of Google's own quality systems. Lets face it.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 1d
IMAGE SEO: Even when two images are pixel-for-pixel identical, Google creates a preference hierarchy.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 1d
User Behaviour is the Ultimate Arbiter: The “NavBoost” system is a powerful ranking factor that analyses 13 months of user click data (goodClicks, badClicks, lastLongestClicks) to promote or demote pages. A poor user experience directly impacts rankings.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 1d
🕵️ Today: E-E-A-T Decoded: Google’s Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trust:
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 1d
United States DOJ v. Google LLC: Federal Antitrust Case 2020-2025 Summary
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 1d
Image SEO: Objects in images are linked directly to Google's Knowledge Graph via multibangKgEntities, turning a picture of a tower into a direct connection to the "Eiffel Tower" entity.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 1d
🧑‍⚖️ (Q)*: From PageRank + the ‘Body’ content (🅱️) of the Topicality system and 🖱️ (P)*: From Navboost (user clicks) + Topicality’s ‘Anchors’ (🅰️) & ‘Clicks’ (🖱️).
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 1d
The Helpful Content System (HCS) Is Codified: The Google leak demystifies the HCS. Its principles are powered by concrete signals, with attributes like contentEffort directly measuring expertise.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 1d
Title Tag SEO: The system that rewrites titles is called SnippetBrain; studies show that titles between 51-60 characters are the least likely to be rewritten.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 1d
Local SEO: The leak reveals a boolean flag, isLargeChain, is used to apply different ranking expectations for national brands versus independent shops.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 1d
Image SEO: Google uses a timestamp called contentFirstCrawlTime to identify the original source of an image across the web, giving it preference over duplicates.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 2d
Local SEO: The documents show a business's local data is structurally linked to its website URL, making site authority inseparable from local ranking potential.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 2d
Visual Prominence is a Measured Signal: The existence of an avgTermWeight attribute, which measures the average font size of terms, is concrete proof that making your headings and key phrases visually stand out is a quantifiable signal.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 2d
Title Tag SEO: The best way to avoid unwanted rewrites by SnippetBrain is to ensure your <title> tag and your <h1> heading are very closely aligned in their messaging.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 2d
"an unmaintained site... should be rated Lowest." Google QRG 2014
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 2d
If you have enjoyed the recent posts, you'll like my new Youtube playlist: The Google Leaks: The Content Warehouse API Leaks / DOJ Vs Google Trial
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 2d
Site-Wide Quality Is Paramount: A key insight from the Google leak: low-quality content on one part of your site can negatively impact the entire domain's rankings. This can trigger a site-wide demotion.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 2d
contentEffort is a Core Metric: The Google leak reveals the contentEffort metric, where LLMs algorithmically measure the human labour in your content. Effort is now a ranking signal.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 2d
The Google trial revealed the systems that build the SERP: 'Glue' ranks universal features based on user interaction, and 'Tangram' assembles the final layout.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 2d
🕵️ 'Goldmine': The system that decides what you see on Google search results pages.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 2d
Your title Tag is Just a Suggestion: Google’s 'Goldmine' system treats your title as just one candidate among many, scoring it against alternatives sourced from your headings (h1), internal links, and body content.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 2d
🕵️ 'Goldmine': Google’s Universal Quality Judge for Search Results Pages:
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 3d
Title Tag SEO: The leak names the snippet system 'Muppet,' which uses pixel width (approx. 600px) and precise typographic units, not a strict character count, to determine display length.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 3d
LEAKED TODAY: Google 'Goldmine' is not a title-only system. It appears to be a UNIVERSAL and scalable architecture for quantifying the quality of ANY content element Google presents to a user. 🥇
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 3d
🚨LEAKED: The "Goldmine" system rates title tags. It evaluates "title candidates" (your title, h1, headings, and anchor text) using dozens of signals to calculate goldminePageScore. The highest-scoring candidate is the one most likely to be shown in search results.
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Shaun Anderson @hoboweb.bsky.social · 3d
Thanks to the Google trial, we now have a public glossary of internal terms. Testimony detailed systems like QBST (Query-based Salient Terms) and T* (Topicality).
www.hobo-web.co.uk
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