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Google quality guidelines

What Are Google’s Quality Guidelines?

If you own or manage a website, you know that getting to the top of a search engine’s page rankings is very important. Without a high ranking, your page can get lost among the other hundred million pages out there. But how do you know how a search engine like Google rates your page? How does Google classify types of content, and what does it consider quality content? Is there anything you can do to get to the top and stay there? And what are the things that Google finds so egregious that will make them take action against your website? The good news is that Google does have specific guidelines they use to rate your page and rank your site. And following their guidelines can aid Google in locating, indexing, and ranking your website.

Basic principles

Google’s quality guidelines contain some pretty basic principles that ensure search engines are providing users with the most diverse information and the best quality possible. Here are Google’s basic principles to follow when building a website and creating content for it: