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Google has updated its Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines PDF just a bit over 9 months since the last update. The document keeps getting smaller, from 175 pages in 2020[1] to 172 pages in 2021[2] and now to 167 pages in 2022.
Here is what Google documented it changed:
- Refreshed language to be aligned with the newly published Search Quality Rater Guidelines: An Overview[3] (PDF)
- Refined YMYL to focus on topics that require a high level of accuracy to prevent significant harm; added a new table of examples and refreshed existing examples
- Added clarifications to Low and Lowest Page Quality sections to emphasize that the type and level of E-A-T depends on the purpose of the page, and that low quality and harmful pages can occur on any type of website
- Refactored language throughout to be applicable across all devices types
- Minor changes throughout (updated screenshots; removed or updated outdated examples and concepts; removed user location when irrelevant; etc.)
Here are the previous versions, compared to the live version:
Here is the updated change log of this file from Google (click to enlarge):
I did not do a comparison in detail Lily Ray posted a more detailed comparison on Search Engine Land[4].
References
- ^ in 2020 (www.seroundtable.com)
- ^ in 2021 (www.seroundtable.com)
- ^ Search Quality Rater Guidelines: An Overview (services.google.com)
- ^ Search Engine Land (searchengineland.com)
- ^ Twitter (twitter.com)
