"Have you heard of the Google Goldmine Scoring System? It supposedly looks at your page, your content, and Google gives it a goldminePageScore, title tag factor, body factor, anchor factor, heading factor and more. Shaun Anderson uncovered this as part of the older Google data leak and said on X, "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.""
"He posted a lot more detail about this on his blog but it lists these attributes: goldminePageScore goldmineAdjustedScore goldmineTitleTagFactor goldmineBodyFactor goldmineAnchorFactor goldmineHeadingFactor Here is some more: We can see within the Google Goldmine System confirmation of the candidates they choose for the Title to display to users in SERPs (internal anchor text H1 etc) pic.twitter.com/UyoEnwuVzG- Shaun Anderson (@Hobo_Web) October 6, 2025 59 attributes are detailed in the six tables breaking down the QualityPreviewRanklabTitle module. These cover foundational properties, source identification, the "Goldmine" scoring system, demotion signals, semantic flags, and experimentation data. pic.twitter.com/IYHYbG6fjG- Shaun Anderson (@Hobo_Web) October 6, 2025"
An internal Google Goldmine scoring system evaluates title-tag candidates and other page signals to compute composite scores such as goldminePageScore and goldmineAdjustedScore. The system assesses discrete factors including goldmineTitleTagFactor, goldmineBodyFactor, goldmineAnchorFactor, and goldmineHeadingFactor to rank potential titles drawn from the title tag, H1, headings, and anchor text. The highest-scoring candidate is selected for display in search results. The QualityPreviewRanklabTitle module enumerates 59 attributes across foundational properties, source identification, demotion signals, semantic flags, and experimentation data that feed the Goldmine evaluation engine.
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