From seo-superpower
Use when building Google E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) signals, writing author bios, planning thought-leadership SEO, hardening trust on YMYL (Your Money Your Life) content, getting cited as an authority by AI engines, or building a long-term authority moat from zero. Triggers on phrases like "E-E-A-T", "author bios", "build authority", "thought leadership SEO", "Google trust signals", "YMYL", "how to get cited as an authority". Long-game skill — invest 6+ months before you need it.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/seo-superpower:building-eeat-and-authorityThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
E-E-A-T is not a direct ranking factor — it's the **weighting framework** Google's quality raters apply to evaluate whether a page deserves to rank, and AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) have learned an almost identical pattern. **96% of AI Overview citations come from sources with strong E-E-A-T signals** (r=0.81 correlation) [1][6], and content from authors with verifiable cred...
E-E-A-T is not a direct ranking factor — it's the weighting framework Google's quality raters apply to evaluate whether a page deserves to rank, and AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) have learned an almost identical pattern. 96% of AI Overview citations come from sources with strong E-E-A-T signals (r=0.81 correlation) [1][6], and content from authors with verifiable credentials gets cited ~40% more often by AI engines [2]. In 2026, E-E-A-T is an active filter, not a tiebreaker.
Solo founders and small teams can build E-E-A-T from zero, but it is a 6-month minimum game. Plant the seeds before you need the shade.
The example throughout: vibecrafting.ai — a solo-founder product site, no fortune-500 pedigree, building authority in the "vibe coding" / AI-assisted dev space.
Person schema linked from the author field of Article schema. With a verified sameAs to LinkedIn / personal site / Wikidata, citation likelihood jumps 2.8× on Claude and Gemini [2]. See adding-schema-markup.Organization schema with sameAs to social profiles, address, contactPoint, logo. 45% of most-cited pages use Person schema; 47% use BreadcrumbList [2].Six-month minimum cadence. None of this works in 30 days.
sameAs graph. LinkedIn, X, GitHub, Bluesky, personal site — all linked from the About page and the Organization/Person schema. LLMs use this graph to confirm identity before citing.Don't fake credentials. Lean on demonstrated experience — the new "E" exists exactly for you.
If you publish on any of these, treat E-E-A-T as a launch-blocker, not a polish item:
adding-schema-markup — Person + Organization + Article(author) are the load-bearing schema for E-E-A-T.optimizing-for-generative-engines — converts the authority you build here into measurable AI citations.Citations and verification tags in SOURCES.md.
npx claudepluginhub benskamps/seo-superpower --plugin seo-superpowerSearches MemPalace before answering questions about past work, people, projects, or prior decisions. Returns verbatim stored content instead of guessing from model memory.
Guides Payload CMS config (payload.config.ts), collections, fields, hooks, access control, APIs. Debugs validation errors, security, relationships, queries, transactions, hook behavior.
Implements vector databases with Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, pgvector for semantic search, RAG, recommendations, and similarity systems. Optimizes embeddings, indexing, and hybrid search.