Adding real author bios moved one YMYL site 11 positions
On the radar this week: experience-and-expertise case studies with measured deltas.
Confirmed by the operators
— Marie Haynes — A personal-finance site added named authors with credentials, LinkedIn links, and a real reviewer byline across 80 articles. Across the next core update, the affected URLs averaged a jump from position 14 to position 3, while a control set without bios barely moved.
Chatter
— SEO Roundtable — Threads debating whether the bios caused it or just correlated with broader quality work done at the same time. Worth reading both sides before you copy it.
One to bookmark: Haynes' case logs the exact pages changed and isolates the author variable better than most, so you can judge the attribution yourself.
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Adding real author bios moved one YMYL site 11 positions
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