Recently, Google’s Matt Cutts gave USA Today readers 5 SEO Tips, which many of our readers found quite basic (albeit good). Then, last week, Google gave an overview of its ranking system. Both come in the midst of Google’s latest push to inform about its privacy policy. Now, Google has taken to the AdSense blog to inform publishers of basic SEO tips.
Here’s what Ambroise Fensterbank, Search Quality Evaluator, recommends:
- Your pages should have a clear hierarchy and relevant internal links. We also recommend creating a Sitemap and using Google’s Webmaster Tools. These tools are useful, user-friendly and will provide information such as where your backlinks come from or which queries visitors used to reach your site.
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tags that are explicit and useful for the user. For example, avoid a title like “Homepage” or “Welcome to my site”.</li> <li>For images, use ALT attributes to describe appropriately what the image is about.</li> </ul> <p>Fensterbank also recommends updating your site with fresh content, which may help the Googlebot crawl your pages more regularly. Also, it may attract links.</p> <p>And what would a good instructional post be without a video? 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