Google’s SEO Starter Guide
October5
Just a short post to let you know that Google has updated their SEO Starter Guide. This guide covers the basics of search engine optimization. The items covered, like page titles, effective content, url structure and image optimization, should be on every web developer’s checklist of basic SEO for each website they launch. The information on backlinks is helpful as well. It’s important that sites linking to yours have related content and are high quality sites, not link farms.
The information on optimizing for your location is also important to remember. Adding a business to Google Places or Yahoo’s local directory will definitely help bring in local business.
I’ve been a designer for 20 years. I started in the days of waxers and transfer letters, transitioned to the computer in the late eighties, and tackled web design in the early nineties. I’ve tried to keep up with all of the software and technologies of the trade, from HTML to CSS and JS, Pagemaker to InDesign. I’ve worked in both worlds–freelance and corporate, finding that they both have their upsides and drawbacks. It’s a challenge to stay current, but it’s my passion and the perfect profession for someone who never wants to be bored! I hope that I have something valuable to offer other designers.
Thank you for sharing this Deborah, as Johnny Carson used to say – “I did not know that.”