Google’s Webmaster Central now gives an SEO starter guide. A really basic and simple guide but yet very useful and more over a trust from the Google itself.
Main Points Covering The SEO Guide:
1. Difference between organic and paid search results.
2. Advice on writing unique page titles.
3. Use of meta=”description” tag.
4. Search engine friendliness of URLs.
5. Easy navigation.
6. Offer quality content and services.
7. Write better content.
8. Using heading tags appropriately.
9. Optimizing the use of images with alt=”…” text.
10. Make effective use of robots.txt file.
11. Be aware of rel=”nofollow” for links.
12. Promoting in right ways like blogging about new content and services, offline promotion, social media promotion, Google’s local business, networking with people in a similar industry that of yours.
13. Make use of Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo Site Explorer, Live Search Webmaster Tools.
14. Take advantage of web analytics services.
15. Helpful resources for webmasters.
Manish Pandey is an internet marketing strategist and likes to write about tech, search engines and social media. To stay updated you can subscribe to the RSS Feed or follow him on twitter.
Yeah, recently i have seen this news in Google webmaster blog.
Wow..I didn’t know about this.. Thanks Manish!
Great resources for beginners. You have to start somewhere with all the seo knowledge out there.
It is wonderful that Google released its own guide to Google SEO, because they would probably know the most information about what would be optimized and appropriate, and what would be inappropriate and lead to site-blocking. They present the various concepts in reasonable ways that let people design their site with users and search spiders in mind.
Google is trying to mislead people by shifting the focus from offpage to onpage stuff…
I’ve read it and it is a good read, but there are better resources out there (although it is from Google so there’s a big amount of trust in it)
It’s a great resource for beginners
Heh Manish they should start offering SEO services too.
Yeah, they were doing so in form of Performics. Now, they sold it don’t know what they had in their mind.
Thanks for the valuable contributions to this site. Have good works.
I think by releasing these SEO Guides they r planning something like “making the web a cleaner place”…. people will place genuine content in their websites, they make of use of analytics codes etc so that search engine make sure tht they (search engine) know everything abt ur website… well may be m wrong… but it may also be an act of generating curiosity amongst people who dont know much abt SEO and their relevant websites are not being able to rank well as they dont know SEO or they dont hire any SEO Expert.
Manish plz approve my comment only if u support my views b’cos i really dont know if m right… its just a view.
Good Luck
Sashank, I agree with you they may be want to make a better search result, but we don’t know what in their mind and what they plan according to releasing this SEO guide
hey….i saw you add on your about page http://www.toprankblog.com/search-marketing-blogs this thing logo..is it your blog there?
SEO is most important after goog content and better keyword analysis. nice article
It was informative. thank you for pointing out
webmaster tools- great point this is a great way to get insight into your sites true performance.
You have described well but can you give me the brief idea about SEO Guide.
Hey Google Webmasters has improved a lot these days, there are many useful resources for newbies, which will help them. . .