Google SEO for Beginners

As a beginner, you want to start by understanding the definition of Search Engine Optimization, how Google crawls and indexes web pages, how a SEO-friendly (or Google-friendly) web site should be created according to the most appropriate design, content, technical and quality guidelines, and what to look at when hiring a SEO professional.

Google’s Official Definitions on SEO

SEO Definitions and Glossary

Shoe Money created a list of SEO definitions out of various SEO gurus and SEO Book provides a comprehensive glossary on Search Engine Optimization.

SEO Guides for Download

The Google SEO Starter Guide has also been published to help beginners to understand basic search engine optimization guidelines. You can find other comprehensive Search Engine Optimization eBooks which are free for download:

Quick SEO Tips from Other Webmasters

SEO Ranking Factors

You also want to know what factors Google has been using to rank web pages.

Google Webmaster Tools

To put what you have learned about search engine optimization in practice, you should make use of Google’s Webmaster Tools which provides detailed reports about your website’s visibility on Google’s SERP. The reports show you about your site’s inbound links, outbound links, site links, robot.txt, sitemaps, 404 errors, geographic targets and other statistics.

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2 Responses to “Google SEO for Beginners”

  1. Chaunna Brooke on February 17th, 2009 1:09 am

    Your article is something to be read by SEO beginners. Good basics.

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