The only SEO Guide we need - Written By Google

Google has just released a SEO Guide and I must say that this is a really good move from them. Now, take this guide and smash all the myths that the 'SEO experts' are telling you..

Download here:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

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Nice.
Thanks for sharing.

 

Nice pdf link given, downloaded and read.

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

Nice stuff. It's really interesting and useful resources. Thanks.

 

Thanks, will definitely read it and use

 

Great to read it. Thanks!

 

It's got some good stuff there for onsite optimisation. Guess the next edition will have things like link building

 

That is evil Guess they will pass that out

 

tell me, who here learnt something they didnt already know from that?

who thinks they can rank a site using just the methods in there?

 

What will you add to the list?

 

The guide is aimed at helping the newbies that don't know anything about SEO.

 

It will prove really useful when dealing with customers that don't want to adopt some of these practices. Hard to ignore it when it's coming from the horses mouth.

 

Yeah nice one, thanks for sharing.

 

It's of course a nice faq, and the fact that it comes from Google makes it authoritative...

 

yea, it doesnt help me with my customer issues. it would need to say things like

 

I love you for sharing, thanks!

 

Defintiely a nice read.

Whoever said meta tags are dead?

In the document Google makes it pretty clear its about content and the way you "dress up" that content - with title tags, description tags, informative anchor text, etc.

Oh and it mentions little if nothing about exchanging links... So are we back to basics?

 

Description tags have no weight or weight that doesn't matter at all.

And yeah I'd say it is a free copy of AArons seo book for google.

 

This will certainly be useful.