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.