Google's "Making the Most of Your Content: A Publisher's Guide to the Web"

Feb 11, 2008 - 8:15 am 0 by

Search Engine Watch Moderator, Beu, posted a Search Engine Watch Forums thread noting that Google has published a PDF document named Making the Most of Your Content: A Publisher's Guide to the Web. The PDF document is a printable 13 page booklet that goes through some of the basics of SEO.

The index includes:

  • Introduction
  • A brief overview of web search
  • What’s new in Google web search?
  • Can Google fi nd your site?
  • Can Google index your site?
  • Controlling what Google indexes
  • Robots.txt vs. meta tags
  • Controlling caching and snippets
  • Does your site have unique and useful content?
  • Increasing visibility: best practices
  • Webmaster Central
  • Sitemaps
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Glossary

Very nice find by Beu!

For archiving purposes, you can also download the PDF from this site.

Forum discussion at Search Engine Watch Forums.

 

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