Google Expands YMYL Guidelines To Cover Election & Civic Content

Google updated its quality rater guidelines to treat election and voting info as YMYL. See what changed and how to align civic content.

Highlights

• Election and voting information is now covered under YMYL “Government, Civics & Society.”
• This holds civic pages to higher standards for accuracy, sourcing, and freshness.
• Quality rater guidelines train evaluators and inform system quality; individual ratings don’t directly change rankings.