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Quality selection requires a very advanced sort of A.I. which is currently not available.
Instead now some highly irrelevant criteria are used, such as H1 tekst, domain name and incoming links. None of those have zilch to do with the quality of a website, of course.
Let's not have the 'Spice Girls' argument here: who really believes the Spice Girls make great music because a lot of people buy their records? Link popularity is based on the same stupid mechanism.
I would much rather prefer Google not to try play 'quality editor' which is, in my opinion, just a marketing scheme since the requirements for such are impossible yet.
Aesthetics isn't and shouldn't be the domain of search engines, who have no means of measuring such. That's the reason those irrelevant criteria are there in the first place.
Oraqref
isn't it the same as signing guestbooks?
No, it is not.
Go ahead and put up 300 yahoo profiles and put links to your site in them. It won't do you any good because your profiles will never make it into google.
Your profile will only get crawled if there is sufficient activity in the public groups to get you enough PR for google to go to your profile. If you have a profile with any PR you earned it by participating.
And it isn't going to get you very far.
Actually, in a way it is like guestbooks. It is like signing guestbooks on sites that interest you, not like spamming guestbooks. If guestbooks were only used as originally intended there would be no problems.
Your profile will only get crawled if there is sufficient activity in the public groups to get you enough PR for google to go to your profile.
Just now I went to all of my 4 profiles and made them link to my sites. Alas, these profiles all have PR of 0! Looks like becoming a DMOZ editor is the only option left. ;)
There are other options than that to get decent PR.
#1) Are you any good at HTML? If so, then offer to do some HTML work on the site of one of those teenagers with PR5 pages I mentioned in exchange for a link or 2 on their home page. Considering adding links to your sites involves no out of pocket expense to them, likely this won't involve much HTML work you have to do.
#2) Put up a site on your hobby that other people would want to link to. Not only can this be fun, but getting links from amateur sites tends to be easy. PR tends to skew in favor of amateur sites, because while they don't mind exchanging links, commercial sites have an incentive to not want to link to competitors. Once your amateur site has decent PR, you can link off of it to your commercial sites.
Getting to PR5 with either of the above should be easy. #1 can be particularly effective for a commercial site. Not only does the site get a number of good PR links, but also you should be able to get exactly the right keyword rich anchor text you want.
