Google’s SEO Best Practices

Writing by Nick Stamoulis Tweet

Did you know Google has an search engine optimization (SEO) “best practices” guide for webmasters? And they’ve put it into a neat little .pdf file that you can download yourself. What the best practices? There are 13 of them. The list:

• Create Unique, Accurate Page Titles
• Make use of the “description” meta tag
• Improve the structure of your URLs
• Make your site easier to navigate
• Offer quality content and services
• Write better anchor text
• Use heading tags appropriately
• Optimize your use of images
• Make effective use of robots.txt
• Be aware of rel=”nofollow” for links
• Promote your website in the right ways
• Make use of free webmaster tools
• Take advantage of web analytics services

To download the free SEO guide from Google, click here.