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Search Engine Land - Brian Ussery has discovered a revised copy of the Google Quality Raters Guidelines, which he archived on his own site.

The documents are used by Google Quality Raters to aid them in classifying queries, measuring relevancy and rating the search results. To do so, the Quality Rater must understand how Google works and this document has a bunch of that. Let me pull out for you some of those details in easy to read bullet points.
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from SlightlyShadySEO 299 days ago #
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He didn't discover it. It was on seoblackhat with the specific request to keep it private.

from DarkMatter 299 days ago #
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yah I was wondering about that....not impossible for him to have rooted this out on his own though..

from SlightlyShadySEO 299 days ago #
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Yeah...that would just be really odd timing. Apologies if this is the case..but yeah haha

from beussery 298 days ago #
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I haven't been able to access the seoblackhat version but instead located another copy, archived it and credited the source in my blog.  I've still haven't seen the seoblackhat version so I can't confirm if it's the same or not.

If seoblackhat would like to verify, I signed up with the user name "whitehat" : )

from jaybong 298 days ago #
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Does anybody have a new link to the html or pdf? Nothing seems to be working for me.

from stuntdubl 298 days ago #
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That didn't last long - you can snag a copy from the cache if you act quickly.

from luckytommy 298 days ago # - show/hide this comment
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Search Engine Land - Brian Ussery has discovered a revised copy of the Google Quality Raters Guidelines, which he archived on his own site.

The documents are used by Google Quality Raters to aid them in classifying queries, measuring relevancy and rating the search results. To do so, the Quality Rater must understand how Google works and this document has a bunch of that. Let me pull out for you some of those details in easy to read bullet points.

from DarkMatter 298 days ago #
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psst.....admins....check out the periods in luckytommys post...

from jaybong 298 days ago #
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Actually the PDF still works, it just took a long time to display. HTML's gone though.

from LindaBuquet 297 days ago #
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I couldn't get to the PDF at that link, but found it here:
http://www.mauriziopetrone.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/quality-rater-guidelines-2007.pdf

via SEObook: http://www.seobook.com/full-text-googles-general-guidelines-remote-quality-raters-april-2007

I was doing research to blog about the thin affiliate section and the sneaky redirects part that highlighs CJ links as sneaky redirect spam.

from SlightlyShadySEO 297 days ago #
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@beussery
I can confirm it's the same.

from Katuul 195 days ago #
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Why not just apply for the job? If you get past the test then you will have access to QR Handbook. I worked for them for 2 years. It was hard on my eyes; kept getting headaches. So I left. But really, if you're that curious just apply.


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