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24 January 2025

Google updates Search Quality Raters Guidelines

Yesterday, Google updated the Search Quality Raters Guidelines with a clear focus on eliminating spammy SEO tactics.

The updates aim to clarify and align with Google Search Web Spam Policies. It also includes expanding the guidance, adding illustrations, and tidying up typos and outdated examples.

What does this mean for SEO and Digital PR teams? We now have a clearer understanding of what Google Search Quality Raters are looking for – and it starts with quality content. Ensuring we’re following best practices when it comes to content will be key, especially if you want your Digital PR strategy to cut through the noise.

Dan Richardson, SEO Consultant at danrich.co told Embryo:

Dan Richardson SEO Consultant

Expert opinion

Dan Richardson, SEO Consultant at danrich.co

"Google’s latest updates to the Search Quality Rater Guidelines signal a further push towards attempting to combat low-effort AI content. With an increased focus on E-E-A-T and closer scrutiny of YMYL topics, it seems that Google is attempting to reduce the visibility of content that has minimal fact-checking done, by favouring sites that have high levels of trustworthiness and demonstrable expertise. What's particularly interesting, is the table of examples of 'lowest quality content' that they've added to it (seen from page 45 onwards). Essentially if quality raters believe your content to be: Inaccurate, deceptive, manipulative, unsafe, scam, auto-generated, or plagiarised, then you should expect search performance to suffer sooner or later. That said this aligns with what we already recognise as low-quality content, whether these rater guideline changes will translate into meaningful action from Google to effectively tackle the problem remains to be seen."
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