What counts as a high-quality website in Google?

Google’s quality algorithms for websites are aimed at helping people find “high-quality” sites by reducing the rankings of low-quality content. Taking a step back, Google wanted to explain some of the ideas and research that drive the development of their algorithms.

Below are some questions that one could use to assess the “quality” of a page or an article. These are the kinds of questions Google team asks itself as they write algorithms that attempt to assess site quality. Think of it as their take at encoding what they think their users want.

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Of course, Google isn’t disclosing the actual ranking signals used in their algorithms because they don’t want folks to game their search results; but if you want to step into Google’s mindset, the questions below provide some guidance on how they have been looking at the issue.

Consider below question and check your website quality accordingly. These factors will not improve the ranking immediately but obviously improve the quality of the website. If your website have the quality content then your website will rank soon with your keywords.

Google Algorithm Update – Possibly Panda Refresh Around 8th or 9th August 2014

Google has not justified the Algorithm update till now but as per seroundtable.com, it can be possible to update the Panda refresh by Google around 8th or 9th August 2014. Some webmasters has seen the drastic drops in the traffic volume and conversions. Google won’t comment on this but the update seems to have around 9th or 8th August and has continued through the weekend.

If you have seen some changes in traffic volume, please share with us.