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Originally Posted by Peter (IMC)
Though you can't know 100% sure what "they" consider quality you can make a very educated guess.
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In my opinion, a huge factor in quality is how active a site is. If it doesn't change enough compared to the average, it will never rank high.
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When looking at the links in a search engine listing, the links that are clicked on the most are those whose line entry catches the most clicks. What does this have to do with the quality of the site they end up viewing? Nothing.
Like popularity of inbound links they are only an easy parameter to measure, but can be enhanced by trickery.
None of this has anything to do with relevance nor quality of a site, and yet it affects your ratings, standings, and cost of garnering traffic.
Hopefully, someday, the heuristics will improve.
Quality, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Unfortunately, rating programs can't see very well, they can only measure.