What worries me about the Google Quality Rater Guidelines
Most of you might have seen the Google Quality Rater Guidelines by now, I’ve read them and the content is quite worrying for a number of reasons.
The main problem is that the document is written to cater for editors who don’t know much about the web. It explains spam, PPC and thin affiliate sites in a few paragraphs and then expects the editor to have the knowledge to play with peoples livelihoods.
Obviously we don’t know how much Google validates the information given in these spam reports but it worries me that so much power is being given to people who don’t understand what a thin affiliate site is before they read the document.
What the document doesn’t do is explain that while one page might be thin the rest of the site is packed full of useful information. How can you judge that?
about the quality rater thing how would people know if they really flunked the exam or were simply rejected for some other reason.
Comment by leena joshi — May 6, 2008 @ 8:34 pm