Home / Google News / Google SEO / Google: Search Quality Raters Guidelines Not A Guide For Search Rankings May 29, 2026 - 7:41 am 0 — by John Mueller from Google said that the Google Search Quality Raters guidelines are not a guide for search rankings. Meaning, the content in those guidelines is not a blueprint on how to rank your website in Google Search. He said this on Bluesky , "It is sometimes worth pointing out that while the Search Quality Raters Guidelines are insightful to read through, they're not a guide for search ranking." Of course, you should keep in mind that these quality rater guidelines used to be confidential but they continued to be leaked over and over again , so Google finally decided to publish them officially for the public . Also, while this is not a guide for search rankings, it is a guide for what pages Google wants rank in its search results. That is the distinction here.…