Searching for Quality Content
As we look at Using Quality Content to help Promote Your Site it describes quality content as articles which can improve your site and link popularity. True enough, but most syndication resources will not want to syndicate your information until AFTER you have already made a name for yourself.
The second search result is a PDF from The Children’s Partnership stating their goal to help ensure poor people have access to quality content on the web and covers related issues. A worthy goal, but it still really does not explicitly define what I am looking for.
As we look at Web Page Content we see "High quality web content impresses people and search engines. Learn how to get your message across clearly and quickly." The problem there is that you message does not get spread until after people find your site.
At Webmaster World the two people who best tried to describe it said that it was "spider food & content for users" or "usefulness & presentation." The thread seemed a bit generic with some people offering specific word counts. There is tons of advice on the web about how to write great articles, but articles are only one part of quality content.
At Gerry Mc Govern’s site we read "Whether you have an intranet or public website, you want real results from your content. You want it to drive profits, productivity, new student enrollment, customer satisfaction, citizen empowerment. You’ve come to the right place. "and later he states "I’ve been involved in the Web since 1994. I’ve spoken and consulted on web content in 25 countries," which in and of itself is a revealing statement.
At the second page I saw a broken image and a bunch of ugly images at the top of the page. I clicked to the home page and they had links selling cheap printer cartridges. Those might be good for printing out my quality content, but those ads certainly are not "quality content."