If you are just starting to learn SEO, and would like to find out how to make your website search engine friendly, including making Google happy, this is the resource for you. In this easy-to-read 32 PDF file, you can quickly learn from the source what Google, and the other search engines like.
Meet Googlebot
Google originally created the SEO Starter Guide in 2008, and has just updated it with their most current recommendations. In addition to the SEO tips included in the guide, the Googlebot is personified with a cute animation that appears throughout the SEO guide with tips and comments.
There is also a handy SEO Glossary at the end of each page which is nice for defining SEO terms that are used throughout the document.
Although you will not find any great Google SEO secrets, following the guidelines in the guide well help you to get a grasp on SEO and to ensure that you are utilizing the best practices in SEO.
These are the topics covered in the Google SEO Starter Guide:
- SEO Basics
- Create unique, accurate page titles
- Make use of the “description” meta tag
- Improving site structure
- Improve the structure of your URLs
- Make your site easier to navigate
- Optimizing Content
- Offer quality content and services
- Write better anchor text
- Optimize your use of images
- Use heading tags appropriately
- Dealing with Crawlers
- Make effective use of robots.txt
- Be aware of rel=”nofollow” for links
- SEO for Mobile Phones
- Notify Google of mobile sites
- Guide mobile users accurately
- Promotions and Analysis
- Promote your website in the right ways
- Make use of free webmaster tools
Let us know what you think of the new Google SEO Starter Guide, and check out more of our great articles at Holistic Internet Marketing blog.
