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Incubator Q&A Do search engines use content user ratings for ranking purposes?

I have a Q&A site where users can upvote and downvote the questions and answers. Does Google use these votes as a ranking signal? Will pages that my users vote up rank better than pages that ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

#4: Nominated for promotion by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2024-03-03T22:05:26Z (9 months ago)
#3: Post edited by user avatar Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭ · 2023-11-17T13:58:38Z (about 1 year ago)
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Do search engines use content user ratings for ranking purposes?
  • I have a Q&A site where users can upvote and downvote the questions and answers. Does Google use these votes as a ranking signal? Will pages that my users vote up rank better than pages that my users vote down?
  • Does it matter if matter if I make this data machine readable to Google using a schema? Does the size of my site matter (is this something that Google only enables for popular sites?)
  • I have a Q&A site where users can upvote and downvote the questions and answers. Does Google use these votes as a ranking signal? Will pages that my users vote up rank better than pages that my users vote down?
  • Does it matter if I make this data machine readable to Google using a schema? Does the size of my site matter (is this something that Google only enables for popular sites?)
#2: Post edited by user avatar Stephen Ostermiller‭ · 2023-11-17T13:15:17Z (about 1 year ago)
  • I have a question and answer site where users can upvote and downvote the questions and answers. Does Google use these votes as a ranking signal? Will pages that my users vote up rank better than pages that my users vote down?
  • Does it matter if matter if I make this data machine readable to Google using a schema? Does the size of my site matter (is this something that Google only enables for popular sites?)
  • I have a Q&A site where users can upvote and downvote the questions and answers. Does Google use these votes as a ranking signal? Will pages that my users vote up rank better than pages that my users vote down?
  • Does it matter if matter if I make this data machine readable to Google using a schema? Does the size of my site matter (is this something that Google only enables for popular sites?)
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Stephen Ostermiller‭ · 2023-11-17T13:14:56Z (about 1 year ago)
Do search engines use content user ratings for ranking purposes?
I have a question and answer site where users can upvote and downvote the questions and answers.  Does Google use these votes as a ranking signal?  Will pages that my users vote up rank better than pages that my users vote down?

Does it matter if matter if I make this data machine readable to Google using a schema?  Does the size of my site matter (is this something that Google only enables for popular sites?)