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We created a first steps cheat sheet for friends & family

Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 7:30 AM


Webmaster level: beginner
Everyone knows someone who just set up their first blog on Blogger, installed WordPress for the first time or maybe who had a web site for some time but never gave search much thought. We came up with a first steps cheat sheet for just these folks. It’s a short how-to list with basic tips on search engine-friendly design, that can help Google and others better understand the content and increase your site’s visibility. We made sure it’s available in thirteen languages. Please feel free to read it, print it, share it, copy and distribute it!

We hope this content will help those who are just about to start their webmaster adventure or have so far not paid too much attention to search engine-friendly design. Over time as you gain experience you may want to have a look at our more advanced Google SEO Starter Guide. As always we welcome all webmasters and site owners, new and experienced to join discussions on our Google Webmaster Help Forum.


Posted by Kaspar Szymanski, Search Quality Strategist, Dublin


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30 comments:

jim said...

Cheat sheet link appears to be missing

Barry Dawber said...

The link's missing :))

Alex Koontz said...

Come on now, this is elementary stuff here. The link to the entire point of the post is broken. Unreal

Antonio Ooi said...

"Oops! Google Chrome could not find x" <--- So fellow beginners, your first step is to put an 'x' on your links. Please take note. ^^

Shane said...

Cheat sheet step #1: Make sure your links all work.

Google Webmaster Central said...

Thanks everyone for spotting this so quickly! The link is fixed now.

techlans.com said...

Nice but dispointed with only one page.we want more cheat sheets from google.

alltechmanuals.com said...

First i say thanks to google for creating this cheat sheet.Few days ago i download google seo guide but i didn't understand many of them because i'm new in blogging.This cheat sheet is helpful to me.

alltechtricks.com said...

nicew artlile well it is very useful for beginners...hope we expect some more cheat sheets.

Christopher Tracy said...

I saw this first on Google READER!

Manav Kashayap said...

What's new in this cheat sheet? webmaster singing same song from log.

Krishna Chaitanya said...

That's good move from Google..!

tophitsong.com said...

many people still don't know about this.

Sam said...

These cheats are basically for Bloggers.

j.koval4uk said...

Thank you very much.
Do you have Russian version of this document?

Ram Krishna Sistu said...

it is very helpful for beginner. Thanks!!

Atul Sharma said...

its a good sheet and will help beginner SEO folks

santosh kumar kori said...

this is cheat sheet link
https://storage.googleapis.com/support-kms-prod/SNP_3027140_en_v0?utm_source=EN_IntBlog&utm_medium=bp&utm_campaign=q113os

mathew borel said...

Thanks for sharing but the link is not opening please provide us any alternative link.

sms Josh said...

Thanks for the tips; it's nice to see some of the finer points of SEO laid out in an objective, mathematically sound way! Definitely bookmarking for later use!

Sherwin said...

Thanks for the cheat sheet. Btw, just add ".pdf" on the file you've downloaded and it will works fine.

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Md Jaman said...

Nice..I think this will help beginner to go forward...it's a Subject like a University to read more to learn more

Ali Munandar said...

i believe this very valuable for us,

thanks

Ramanuj said...

When I clicked on the " dynamic URLs" link on the search-engine-optimization-starter-guide it took me to wrong page. Plz check. The PDF is awesome.

SuSKuNSaiR said...

Nice but dispointed with only one page.we want more cheat sheets from google
Turkey
http://www.suskunsair.net/

web Sites Google banned ??

Albert Ross said...

It's really quite amusing to see these folks posting inane comments in here hoping to maximise their "link juice" by including their URLs.

Yevonne said...

More please! I am using ColibriTool (http://colibritool.com) for my site's statistical data and SEO needs but wouldn't mind using the tips mentioned on the tip sheet.

Mike said...

Hi, thanks, this is a good cheat sheet for the beginner. That...would be me. I need to get back to my blogs and get some ALT tags for my pictures. I didn't realize how important that was.

Atul Sharma said...

File is openable in adobe reader but it shows only a single page with not much information.