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He left his full time job as of 1st August, 2008 to earn his living from blogging and freelance Internet projects. He also shares his 10 years of experience he gained in a giant multi-national company for Small Business companies and builds Corporate Identity. Read more about him!

Nov
13th

Download Google’s SEO Starter Guide

By Mert Erkal in Search Engine Optimization

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Traffic from search engines is very important for bloggers. For professional bloggers it is like bread and butter. You need to master on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so that your blog rank better in search engines. Luckily the biggest search engine Google has released Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide where you can find serious information about SEO.

Google’s SEO Starter Guide (PDF format) is 22 pages long, and focuses on below topics:

  • How to create unique, accurate page titles
  • Good practices for page title tags
  • How to make use of the “description” meta tag
  • Good practices for description meta tags
  • How to Improve the structure of your URLs
  • Good practices for URL structure
  • How to make your site easier to navigate
  • Good practices for site navigation
  • Offering quality content and services
  • Good practices for content
  • Write better anchor text
  • Good practices for anchor text
  • Use heading tags appropriately
  • Good practices for heading tags
  • Optimize your use of images
  • Good practices for images
  • How to make effective use of robots.txt
  • Good practices for robots.txt
  • Be aware of rel=”nofollow” for links
  • How to promote your website in the right ways
  • Good practices for promoting your website
  • Make use of free webmaster tools
  • Take advantage of web analytics services
  • Helpful resources for webmasters

Spend a few quality hours on reading this guide, and you will learn significant amount of information on SEO. Please do not forget to subscribe to my RSS feed so that you won’t miss any last minute update.

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Comments

Mark Antony November 13th, 2008

Great resource Mert, thanks for the download.

rampantheart November 13th, 2008

This is really a blessing for people like me who do not know much about SEO! I really appreciate Google for preparing such a useful guide! I am all thrilled to read it!:)

Blog for Beginners November 13th, 2008

Hey Mert

What an awesome ebook. I’m downloading now as I writing right now. It’s definitely a great SEO resource. Google is hinting at us again.

Thanks for sharing it with us.

Yan
PS: I just couldn’t find the contact form on this site. Am I missing something here?

Miguel Wickert November 13th, 2008

Hey Mert, ye yes.. thanks for sharing. What’s new?

Jack Lan November 14th, 2008

Thanks for sharing this Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide release by Google! Can’t go wrong too much if it is from the google!

Jack Lan
lanzijun.com

nevalex November 14th, 2008

Hey there!

thanks for sharing this, basically it is pretty much thew same as written in SEO Book.

thanks!

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