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Google's SEO Starter Guide

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 11:55 AM

Note: The SEO Starter Guide has since been updated.

Webmasters often ask us at conferences or in the Webmaster Help Group, "What are some simple ways that I can improve my website's performance in Google?" There are lots of possible answers to this question, and a wealth of search engine optimization information on the web, so much that it can be intimidating for newer webmasters or those unfamiliar with the topic. We thought it'd be useful to create a compact guide that lists some best practices that teams within Google and external webmasters alike can follow that could improve their sites' crawlability and indexing.

Our Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing. We felt that these areas (like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text, and more) would apply to webmasters of all experience levels and sites of all sizes and types. Throughout the guide, we also worked in many illustrations, pitfalls to avoid, and links to other resources that help expand our explanation of the topics. We plan on updating the guide at regular intervals with new optimization suggestions and to keep the technical advice current.

So, the next time we get the question, "I'm new to SEO, how do I improve my site?", we can say, "Well, here's a list of best practices that we use inside Google that you might want to check out."

Update on July 22, 2009: The SEO Starter Guide is now available in 40 languages!
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Barry Wise said...

Nice guide for the uninitiated. What are you trying to do, put SEOs out of business ;)

john.deck said...

It is not that SEO is that hard to explain, it is in getting it done.

John Deck

Steve said...

Great post. Thanks for being willing to put Googles name to a bunch of info already out there.

@barry... none of this is new information, they have just put it all together and put their name on it.

zacheos said...

Well done... Thank you for putting this info out there with Google's name on it. Hopefully this will remove some of the mystique of SEO and allow the average consumer to better understand the job of an SEO professional.

Scott Clark said...

A decent view of on-site page related factors.

I don't agree with posting an XML site map unless there is a clear need for it. Having a site that cannot be crawled naturally is a bug that need fixed, not covered up with a sitemap IMO. It hides issues you should fix.

@berrywise - LOL! Oh My that's funny.

@john.deck - second that.

splogger said...

On the 11th page you wrote Consider what happens when a user removes part of your URL
So, will I see all november posts on http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/ if I remove the /googles-seo-starter-guide.html from this URL? Think about it, blogspot team!

Jo said...

on the first page on top part, "Although this guide won't tell you any secrets that'll automatically rank your site first
for queries in Google (sorry!)".

is that mean there is secrets that'll automatically rank the site first for queries in google?

Stephen said...

re: Splogger: "Consider what happens when a user removes part of your URL
So, will I see all november posts on http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/ "

Heh, that works at my house.

Mark Hansen said...

I Just want to know how that Baseball card guy (BrandonsBaseballCards) got such good rankings in the Google engine, when all the while he is using a redirect to your main page!?

(sic)

Great guide!!

Charlie Anzman said...

Great stuff. Don't see this competing with SEO and a really solid compilation. Scott - There are a lot good reasons to use an XML sitemap, particularly with larger websites that may have some legacy pages floating around. Multiple landing pages being located easily are another example.

Dr. Krishna said...

I am waiting for this article for the last 1 year. I am fed up with so called SEO experts. No one really know how Google works.

Raj said...

It is best to hear from Google itself what it likes and dislikes than from all those folks all around the web. For years, I was in search of an article like this from the "Lion's mouth" itself!

Thanx a zillion.

Jenn said...

Aside from the webmaster guidelines once you know what terms your audience is going to be searching for to find you it's all just a matter of content and internal/external linking. Once you have that down, then work on projects that target your key audience. All avoiding black hat techniques like doorway pages, hidden content, link farms, etc.

Jenn

sandeep said...

Nice guide for the beginner. We teach SEO and we are into Digital Curating.

We have created a Flash Animation for Google Webmaster Guidelines. It is available here

http://vizedu.com/2008/10/
google-webmaster-guidelines/

Just wanted to share with you.

Thanks

Mrudula said...

ry informative thanks for the post

shital said...

Very nice guide for seo beginners.

it would help a lot.

thanks !

smartseo said...

Its very nice guide for new comers. its cover all the basic part of seo.

internet-consultant said...

It's about time they understand exactly 'what it is we do.'

Whenever I get a customer that wants to spend more-and-more time 'learning' what i am doing each month via 2 hour conference calls.

I tell them to focus on what they called me for originally and that's 'sales'. They always want to tinker with the website instead of working sales.

kichus said...

It's always good to have such kind of support from you guys. Approval to the SEO industry.

Vaibhav said...

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Vaibhav
http://www.technofriends.in

Matt Cutts said...

Hey Brandon--great job on this. :)

Graham said...

Quite a few inconsitencies in the guide. For example, the guide says to write unique descriptions but the webmaastet help pages says:

While accurate meta descriptions can improve click-through, they won't impact your ranking within search results.

So, are descriptions good for improving ranking or not? How much of the advice has more to do with CTR than SEO?

Alekseo said...

To the above: SEO is also about optimizing for CTR from the SERPs. (and while they might not rank for keywords in these descriptions they are bolding them..)

Fede said...

Nice post.

lgrtklareEW said...

This is a great post for lotsa people.

DataPlus - Custom Data Services said...

Thank you, I appreciate this!

Xeneco said...

No mention of incoming links boosting your ranking - or is it implied by discussing the 'passing of reputation' by linking out to others????

www.RedesignYourBiz.com said...

thanks a ton for the post :)

Erik van der Veen said...

I want to translate it in Dutch for my blog Google Advice blog, but if Google has any plans to do that soon, I won't of course.

Will it be translated soon?

BirminghamDan said...

Thanks for the advice Google. It's about time too.

But you should now be ready to be made to look stupid if any of this info contradicts any of your other official guidance.

Essex said...

Excellent starter guide for people. Although nothing really new, and no "secrets" revealed :-)

tstolber said...

Good to see that the obvious basics are covered for newbies. I think this will help to stop people falling foul of ancient techniques and silly somments on SEO forums and the like.

Andrew said...

Thanks, Google

rave said...

At last everyone can now follow in how to do proper SEO within the google guide lines

Goedkoopste lening said...

I'm impressed that Google is making this document. To me it is a clear and simple statement about what is important to them.

Yellow SEO said...

Very nice guide, an excellent way sum up the process of on page optimization factors.

wsstefan said...

Finally something that I can trust. Time to update my site. I'm trying to get http://fuzz-ball.com to the first page when people search for "fuzz ball" which has a lot of overlap with other markets.

Minty said...

hey thanks Google... :)

Adam said...
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Adam said...

This is a great SEO wrap up.

war21x3b said...

Oh God.
What is this?
This is not SEO.
This is are hard explain!

SearchBliss said...

Just as I figured...after reading it, it's mostly "don't do this" and "don't do that". It's more about Google guidlines then SEO.

Andrew said...

Perhaps you were reading the wrong page?

Eihab Zaher said...

Good initiative, hope to see more in depth information though

Trade Show Emporium said...

This is a great starter source for a lot of people, but doesn't do anything for people who have been at this for a while. However, I think it shoes the importance of your site, not building link backs.

Wayne golliday said...

This is a nice guide but it is missing some important information. Do not think for a second that Google is telling you exactly how to SEO your site for their bots. That never has and never will be done by them

Adam Conrad said...

I'm glad Google finally packaged this up, I mean it's not rocket science, and they did have this information spread around their Webmaster site, but honestly, it's probably a good thing.

Going to put a few crappy SEO sites out of business though haha! Down with the e-book!

Phil Wilson said...

The SEO starter guide is a PDF?

Hmm :)

AussieWebmaster said...

Got to love the anchor text and double content links from this blog post to the pdf - now there is some subtle SEO

Heather said...

@aussiewebmaster
Nope. All outbound links are no-followed.
However, you might see a few extra hits. I think it's tacky. I don't care what anybody says. Your in a room with a bunch of SEO's...have some tact.

dominating_seo said...

Its great to something like this from Google. Thanks for confirming couple of basic factors to rank.

-DS

Internet User said...

That looks really useful - I'll have to print it out and go have a read over a coffee!

epsoriwebmaster said...

Someone really decided to put on their thinking cap, great going! It’s fantastic to see people really writing about the important things.

http://www.epsori.com

Amit Panchal said...

really its mind blowing, and very useful guide...

thanks a lot

vipul gupta said...

Thanks a lot for the information.
I have one doubt. According to Pages with internal links report in Google Webmaster my home page is getting only 350 links but my website is having 6540 pages and all of them link to my home page as i follow same template for all.
Can you tell me what could be the problem.

Elena said...

This is very helpful, Thank You Google!

Diego Toala said...

Thanks , the guide is really nice, well ...i'm using the xajax framework and i have only two url per site administrators and users , all the content is processed with ajax in divs, so i dont have this http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=176962 but i have this http://www.mysite.com/admin and http://www.mysite.com/users , what do you think about the optimization?

Ryan Williams said...

Link appears to be broken (or it looks like the document itself is not there anymore)

Robert said...

Very impressive, a good starter guide for people in the dark about Google.

Links Manager said...

one of the best Guidelines for newer SEO

Angela Kristin said...

Good Guide!!
Thanx for Sharing

Gordon said...

I always want to have the list of all SEO best practices on a single guide, even though I have a really good idea of what they are over the years of following Google's changes. This official guide will be even more valuable for all SEO professional, if Google keeps updating it.

Alex Circei said...

A beautiful Guide ! 10x

David Bruce said...

Hot Damn!!

Glad I found this incredibly useful resource... and it comes from the Google Gods themselves.

For starters you've led by example, for instance a cursory glance at this blog reveals to us in the SEO industry the answer to an important question:

"What should a business blog look like in terms of layout and use of feedburner tools?"

I feel quite vindicated now!

I'm greedily snatching up every thing I see here!

dockenny said...

Great video. Some times a bit of information adds upto a lot of money.

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Doolally said...

Very useful. Thanks for putting it together.

Camilo said...

Why'd you use Firefox and not Chrome?

David Bruce said...

Chrome huh?

I had too many windows open!

LOL

IE crashes when I 'load it up like a pack mule!'

I DID have chrome open and it IS faster than IE... doesn't crash as often.

The actual answer to 'why'd you use Firefox and not Chrome' is there aren't any 'roboform' widgets or ShareThis widgets for Chrome yet

God I hope these comments aren't 'no follow'

If they are, Se Lavee
I'm doing just fine marketing SEO in my local neighborhood.

macewan said...

Explains why macewan.org went from PR6 to *cough* less than after working with the ever retarded Izea group. ;-)

Seriously, how many SEO training programs will need to be rewritten on this news? I've just started the IttyBiz SEO School not two nights ago and just this afternoon we covered the importance of incoming links and article sites such as ezarticles.

What affect if any will this have on Hubpage like sites?

Jon Clark said...

Great resource for all those newbies out there. Google, is there any way you can add a paragraph that can help set expectations for the sometimes exstended period it takes to achieve results:) I don't know about the rest of you but this would aid tremendously in working with clients!

Workpost said...

Great to see SEO tips coming directly from Google..

josecb said...

thank you very much for the information; i like to know and this page is excellent, it had never entered directly but I have read references and taking linkage in diverse blog and you are the only ones with which I am sure that the subject-matter and the advices are trustworthy. (to excuse, but I have written with the translator because not to write itself in English). josé. (torrelavega, Spain)

eBook Master said...

Excellent guide. I like this optimization techniques.

I hope in future you give the advanced tutorials.

Thanks.

M.Hohlfeld said...

QUESTION!!!
Can i translate the pdf file into German and make it available for download?
Or is it a bad idea regarding copyrights and so on?

I would intregrate the URL of the original pdf.

Thanks for your answer!
Michael

Entertainner said...

I have download the ebook.It awesome :)

ov530 said...

Just red the guidelines PDF file - If you are in to writing a good website and use your logic, you will be following 90% of the guidelines. Spammers and black hat SEOs, though, will have to work harder to meat the guidelines...

Mahbub-E-Elahi Ron said...

great information. thanks for sharing

Andrew said...

All we need now is for Google to offer an online Site Map Generator - is that really too much to ask?

Andrew said...

... and before some one else says it - yes, I've seen the list they offer; two are 404s, several list just 20 pages (or two levels), and most demand an email address (or more) before you get to see how useless they are.

Come on Google, you must have one!

Share!!

Web Design Company USA said...

I was waiting for such a guide from Big G for a long time. I agree that it won't take away work from SEO experts. What it will do will give some insight for people who jump onto the SEO bandwagon and expect their site to be at number 1 withing 2/3months. That SEO needs time and continuous effort is the key factor that this guide will help to establish.

admin said...

Google Really Rocks! This is i think the best comprehensive guide for newbies!

ailene said...

Now, newbies could learn the ropes on search engine optimization and make their way to online success. Google's relaease of this compact guide is really timely.

SolReka said...

Great document Mr Google. As a noob, I found the PDF very informative and refreshing, considering we live in an over-saturated market place where every other blog seems to a MMO and self-proclaimed SEO expert - yawn :-)

jikpeter said...

Thanks for doing this. I read the help boards, but it's really helpful have the basics all in one place. Especially for sharing with other members of my company who I can only get through to with printed documents. :) And it's too bad that you're getting slack for putting free resources out there...even if the information is in other places.

Maile Ohye said...

@Erik van der Veen, @M.Hohlfeld:

The guide is under Creative Commons license so you're free to translate it if you'd like. :)

We hope to translate it eventually as well -- with several languages hopefully coming out in 2008, and more in 2009. Erik, I don't believe that Dutch is in our near-term plans.

Thanks, everyone, for your kind comments!

DeeJayDog Productions said...

Thanks to Brandon Falls and the rest of the Google team for sharing their insight and creating what will surely be the baseline for reference material on SEO. (and for giving me further documentation to show to clients) :)

Tim said...

There is still work to be done. A co-worker did a search for "majestic gas log sets" the other day and the first result was a redirect page to a mal-ware script. Exactly how did this "doorway" page get into the first spot? Results like that tend to make people paranoid about using Google for searching.

johnny rodriguez said...

great starter guide!

info said...

Thank you very much! I needed a general guildline Doc for my new designers and this works perfectly. Hope you are keeping it up to date.
Much thanks,
Ken

Saleel said...

Great! I haven't completely gone thru it but i know this will be of great help since the topic has came from google.

tung148 said...

Nice guide ...

Silver Mani said...

Cool Guide for startups...

Thanks Google
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scott.latham said...

erm all well and good bu i am yet to do much seo on my website however i still sit on page 1 off, wen you serach carp fishing magazine... there are hundreds of carp fising mags out there but still within just 2 weeks ive jumped most to get home page purley i belive because of my domain name! www.carpfishingmagazine.co.uk

Lone Drewes said...

Great guide - thanks guys :)

You make it very simple and clear. Hope a lot of people will use this guide for seo beginners.

hammertime said...

Thanks to Brandon Falls and the rest of the Google team for sharing their insight. I am in awe!

techjaws.com loves this stuff!

Moin said...

Hi, its a interesting topic good ideas you expressed all information fabulous.

Moin

http://moinoddinseo.blogspot.com

Nereo said...

I don't see any PDF Meta Data...

Am I wrong or it is not SE Optimized? :-)

Carlos Muñoz said...

Por fin una guia que despeja todas las dudas que hemos aprendido a base de horas y horas , Gracias amigo Google!!! te da todo el equipo de serinterweb

jonwilliams8 said...

Its nice to see google do this. I think its a good idea for new people to SEO.

Chip said...

Nice guideline, will out it to good use.

Michael Silva said...

We provide hosting accounts for our clients and are always getting asked the type of questions in this guide. Will be real nice to be able to point them in the right direction.

gerd said...

Thanks for putting this together - I didn't pay attention to all details...

Gerd

M.Hohlfeld said...

Deutsche Übersetzung gestartet - German Translation started

@Maile Ohye and all german readers: I started the german translation of the pdf :)

The status about the current stand of the translation and the link to the german pdf you can find on my english blog at Google's SEO Starter Guide in Deutsch.

Für alle deutschen Leser: Ich habe begonnen den Google-Starter-Guide ins Deutsche zu übersetzen. Die jeweils aktuellste Version findet ihr auf meiner Webseite hier im Artikel: Google's SEO Starter Guide in Deutsch

Alternative you can download directly from here.

I think i can finish the translation during the next week. But i will update the german pdf file daily.

Best regards
Michael Hohlfeld alias BeachCoach

Davidlind said...

This will help me out a lot. And just in time for the holidays.

planetjeffy said...

I have always felt the most difficult part of selling SEO was explaining what it is and how important it is. Great to see that Google has thrown their weight behind SEO with Matt Cutts blog, tools and docs like this. Keep it up. Jeff Maslan

Mark said...

Luckily enough, we're using Kentico CMS that handles most of this stuff for us.

Stavros said...

Good work to Google and the people that had the idea of preparing the guide.
Being in the internet consulting business for so many years there are no secrets. It's just doing your work properly and having patience.
SEO is not a rocket science. its a process.

Anyway things seem to be changing and companies should instead focus on their analytics and the proper management and on going development of their site.

Stavros
ebiz-consulting.com

John Beagle said...

Excellent Starter Guide for SEO. Thanks for the well organized, easy to read guide. It will be a big help for all the employees.

mmariusel said...

I have translated the guide also in Romanian, for the ones who are Romanian speakers.

You can read the translation online in: Ghidul de baza de la Google - Optimizarea pentru motoarele de cautare or read it in pdf: : Ghidul de baza de la Google - Optimizarea pentru motoarele de cautare - PDF.

I have tried to keep the translation as much as possible close to the original document, any comments on it I will be glad to hear them.

BambangOke said...

good book..
it's very useful for beginer like me..
Thanks..

marketraisecorp said...

This is very wonderful guide for newbie thank you for sharing your knowledge .

Kawel said...

wow.. its very nice information . thank you so much admin .

Regard,
Iklan-sukses.com

Rajeev said...

Good guide. Being a new webmaster really i was searching this type of e-book. Thank i got it

viky shine said...

@barry : my friend, its not possible to put SEO out of business. People can get basic idea from this guide but it will not make them enough intelligent, to turn search engines towards their site rapidly. Although it has some good points but other things are simple and usual one. Nothing special in book other than google name :)
@krishna : you have tasted the bad ones but best are still alive

May be my blog can help you http://www.earn-regular-money-online.blogspot.com/

Devasish said...

SEO's are out of business now... I guess!

romania inedit said...

Ma bucur ca a aparut un astfel de document si sper ca o sa fie tradus si in limba romana !

bentpal said...

Nice guide for the beginner. We teach SEO and we are into Digital Curating.
http://bentpal.com

sathiyadgl said...

Really Nice Starter guide, that is very much helpful to every one, We except more tips like this..

Thanks to webmaster Google Team

beastmoon said...

thanks for update seo guide...
there are so many technique out there

DOM said...

how can i do for every post...can someone guide me... if i make post how can i give meta tag and description.... help please..

Mouse House Guy said...

I really like this article!

Dorothy Suter said...

Thanks! I've got some work to do. Meeting with someone Saturday to discuss SEO and keywords, so finding this was timely!

estetik said...

I tell them to focus on what they called me for originally and that's 'sales'. They always want to tinker with the website instead of working sales.

m said...

Great post.sure the articles will be useful for seo starters.I was waiting for this article for so long.really thank you for posting this.

estetik said...

Great post. Very nice page.
You must’ve spent more time reading about sound system in human brain. Keep going. We are waiting for more inovative stuff like this. http://www.kutlusevin.com/

Dheerender said...

very Cool and interesting information about SEO for the beginners. Its wonderful to hear from Google for providing such type of important information.

I Hope the same in future also!!!
Congrats!!!

K12RSwow said...

I believe most everything we need to know about SEO is out there for free. It's the work and effort of doing it that prohibits us from being higher ranked.

get your lazy ass out of bed....

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ত্রিভুজ said...

Thats really very good and thanks :)

Geeta said...

Great Post!!! It will definately help new seo guys...

Dr. Eddy Kloprogge said...

Thank you Google. We (that is my company Mind Gliding Ltd) work very hard to improve businesses by using psychological techniques, combined with organisational talent. Producing this guide is one that works very well, as we say: "You have to give it away to keep it".
It creates a very good relationship with your target group.
Find out more about "Relationship" by visiting www.mind-gliding.co.uk
Thank you

David Bruce said...

Now I can use the Google guide to convince some of my more obstinate SEO clients that what I've been suggesting is what Google themselves suggests.

Too often my consulting clients want what's best for themselves, ignoring the fact that Google is the biggest shopping center in the world.. so you'd better think in terms of what's best for the person typing in the search terms.

The term "keyword" is targeted towards us in the seo business.

The term "search term" is more in line with what our end users think of.

Without the person searching, we're out of business!

Laura Peterson said...

Question: I'm managing the SEO process on a large rich-media site full of interactives and streaming video etc. We'd prefer not to test the tags and iterate changes in production, but ideally add and test changes in a dev / test environment before going live for good.

Can anyone recommend some sort of self-contained SEO tag test app we can use in our test environment before going to production?

nette said...

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felipespsousa said...

The link to portuguese-brazil file is broken.

Regards.

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Lou Smith said...

The guide is right on..... the purpose is (word intentionally left out). The implementation of this guide levels the playing field for most all webmasters and elevates the use of semantic html coding to a new level of importance. My thought, (possibly flawed) is that onpage seo is now dead (by standardizing the code) and off page seo is now even more important. It follows that if all code is equal; then, other factors must be pursued. On the page, content, indeed becomes king again and to logically extend the semantic influence, must be increasingly written for the searcher, not the spider. Has your algo grown to the level of being able to recognize any attempt to optimize content? Has the influence of inbound links just jumped off the scale? Seems to me Google, you have just given "big bucks" the first page by default.

Granted, the obvious intent must have been to increase relevancy of your search results; the effect I am afraid will be to break your most sacred rule... "Do No Evil".

AlinaP said...

Nice job, thank you for providing us the useful info.

magicman24 said...

Thank you for this!

I like SEO so much and when I see the results I'm just amazed, now I started using SEO ELITE from http://www.seoellite.com and I have to say that I'm shocked from it. I wanted to reach the top position on a very competitive keyword that had 7,535,444 results and that software helped until now to get to the second page of the free results and I know I will get to the #1 because I'm using it for only 23 days. So what I want to do is to use the software and combine the things you said in your great post and I hope I will reach my goal.

Wish me luck because I wish you:)

Great Blog and thanks for the info.

Mike G

Part Time Admin said...

Hi..
thanks for this..
great..

mirc said...

thanx you admin..

Bijendra said...

Very nice guide for seo beginners.

it would help a lot.

thanks !

Dia Adrian Syah said...

Good guide for me to do SEO and I'm waiting for next guide.

Thanks,
Dia Adrian Syah

sm911 said...

SEO is a strategy and mind game between the Google bot and the SEO expert.

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vBulletinSetup Admin said...

A great guide, bookmarked this long ago

Mr N. K. Mule said...

Wow nice guidelines when its next part is going to come /

Amit Panchal said...

Its really such a useful guideline for those who are freshers in SEO fields. And also for web developer & programmer by this they can develop SEO friendly web design and many more thing which include in this guide.

Nice post,
Thanks a lot for sharing.

Amit Panchal - SEO

web site design los angeles said...

This information is very helpful, because I am newbie on SEO. Thanks for posting it on your blog.

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Jules said...

It's great to have a guide to give to my CMS hosting clients. I don't have enough time to do their stuff, my stuff and a load of new stuff coming soon as it is.... so if they can get on with it themselves without me having to explain it :) Thanks Google

Nitima Sood said...

I was looking for such a document and hope your guide resolves my quest.
A nice effort though!!

Ayman said...

thank you for this help

Ademola said...

I've goine through it and I love it. Very authoritative and useful. I see it as the one definitive guide on how to go about SEO.

ann said...

Good content. Just wanted to add some points here that may be helpful for those looking out for professional SEO services. There are tons of SEO companies offering different SEO packages and solutions at highly competitive rates. However, when looking our for these services, its important to not only look at the affordability factor but also what is unique about their SEO service and what differentiates them from other companies.

While choosing an SEO company its equally important to analyze the SEO company's website in terms of their Rankings, Yahoo links, Google index, Alexa ranking and similar such factors which indicates the company's expertise in the field of SEO. So make sure you are doing enough research and smart work before investing your advertising spend.

angela said...

Nice Post!!!
Its really helpful for new SEOs ..

Sarvesh Bagla said...

May I tell you that I am enriched with this wonderful information. Nice info.

marketsharer said...

An excellent Guide and not only for beginners! It is the way Google looks at websites and to which webmaster can confirm when they want their website to be found by Google. It is also an ideal reference guide for the more experienced SEO-ers ( and their clients) Therefore we translated it into Dutch. Dutch Translation SEO Guide for Beginners

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I've downloaded the same.. :)

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Thank you for this great tips.

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Excellent Guide. I will share it with all my new clients to soften the learning curve for all our advanced services.

Ken

Asif said...

Thanks for sharing it a good one for the beginers.

Gizmo said...

HA!

Now let me hear all those wannabes who said the keywords tag is important.

Google doesn't even mention it!

Marina said...

Thank you for the guide.

SEO India said...

Nice Blog! Great Guidance for me because I am just in SEO field…

Dr.Claude Windenberger said...

After so many years of learning about internet marketing and developing and marketing my own websites, I am now seriously considering starting a side business as an SEO specialist. Thanks for this guide which will help fill any remaining important gaps I still might have in my knowledge of SEO.

Anirudh said...

Wow !! thanks for the detailed info, was looking for some credible source for SEO since long.

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raphnexx said...

thanks for the tips....way to go Google!

tukangnggame said...

Thanks, i was download it

Alex Smith said...

"Google's SEO Starter Guide" really very helpful for those who are new in this field hey thanks google
keep it up.......!!!!

gausarts said...

Noob here. Thanks for the PDF. Gotta start reading it.

Manu Unnikrishnan said...

Nice guide. I re-arranged my pages and increased traffic following it.
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Priyk Empire said...

Great Post! Very informative and a great read. It is very useful for me because i am a starter in SEO and Blog.

Rex Bush said...

I've been reading a lot of secondary sources on seo. It will be nice to get it straight from the horse's mouth. Thanks.

Arash said...

looks awesome

thehotspotguide.com said...

You make everything seem so easy, thanks.

Bill said...

Thank for this guide. This will end my confusing about SEO because so many SEO myth out there and make me lost in the way

Dr.Claude Windenberger said...

This will help me a lot to get better ranking of my website

Bob Dale said...

Thanks for the great advice from the horse's mouth.

Bob Dale
www.prowebmarketers.com

seopositive said...

hi

it is good effort for the starters but it does not give the complete information for the seo.

deepak said...

Hello,
It's Excellent post !!

I am also professional seo and always find new and new Information about SEO.

And Everyday I search new and new think about SEO.

Thanks ...

Peramburkumar said...

Excellent Article. I fully applied to my website http://www.way2onlinejobs.com
It is amazing to see my visitors increasing substantially in last 6 months. Alexa ranking also improving like anything.
Thanks a lot
Perambur Kumar
http://www.way2onlinejobs.com

Ademola said...

It will be nice if we can continue getting such regular assistance directly from the main source i.e. Google

neo said...

REALLY NICE INFO. THANKS FOR SHARING. THANKS A LOT.

earthlydream said...

Thanks so much for Google's SEO guide -It really explains how to use correct keywords & tags for your site.

vincestev said...

Great post - really useful insights to familiarise the uninitiated... Rgds Vince

Rijschool rijles zoeken said...

Very handy to have this as an guide for SEO. Most info known, but if Google provides the info, it must be true.

robseo said...

Thank for this article posting. This is a very good and also importance document.You are a those man who know perfect work of google. I wait for such article in a long time.

Realtor said...

great info will apply it on www.panamil.com

rnbresearch said...

I chanced upon to view your blog and found it very interesting. Great ... Keep it up!

Danish Backer said...

Very very helpfull :)
Thanks

Мыслитель said...

Manual from Google on SEO good, but, unfortunately not full.

نگران said...

Hey that is a great work! thank you for ur attention. But may I ask you to include Persian/Farsi translations on your weblog? I really appreciate you for your efforts. but Me as an Iranian, dont like to see my language is not included in your blog posts or for development services and details.

regards,
Morteza Milani

John said...

Yes, nice tips for starting a new website but looking more elaborate and more volumetric book. Hope we see it soon. Due to being the part of Search engine optimization field we expect more elaborate discussion about the optimization. I am going to publish this book on my site with little review http://www.seoofindia.com /Googlewebmasterguide.pdf

Thanks

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A great post about Seo starter guide.

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Mohammed said...

Nice guide,and thanks for the effort to provide it by different language,...It's really helpful.

mindbees said...

Awesome information regarding SEO...

homestorecollection.com said...

Thanks for this article posting. It's very helpful

SEO Beginner said...

Hi, its always nice to have the information shared between each and every one. Some times some problem like language and similar things stop the sharing but by providing in different language you have proved it that SEO is something like music which is common for every one it doesn't know any caste, color and country. It is unique for everyone.

B.S.Sridhar said...

Excellent article for starters like me. thanks Google!!!!! As always , you have proved you are GREAT!!!!!!!

- SRIDHAR

http://www.iseofirm.com said...

Good info for seo beginner... thanks for the guide.

cheapdanny said...

A very useful guide! *thumbs up*

SEO Guru said...

thanks for the very informative post

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