E-E-A-T is not a checklist and it is not a single ranking factor. It is a risk filter: Google’s way to reduce embarrassment, misinformation, and low-regret outcomes when it chooses what to show (and what to cite in AI answers). This essay explains the system model behind E‑E‑A‑T — and what signals actually make a source legible.
A Knowledge Panel is not something you "request". It appears when Google is confident it can resolve a stable person entity and connect it to corroborating sources. This guide explains the decision model (identity -> disambiguation -> corroboration -> persistence) and the few changes that actually increase certainty.
Entity-first SEO is how Google connects pages into “who this is” and “why it’s credible”. This checklist shows how to build a personal brand entity (Person/Organization, sameAs, rel=me, author signals, hubs, and internal linking) so your site becomes easier to interpret and worth indexing.