SEO or search engine optimization includes a set of methods to help search engines discover, understand and better display your site in search results. This process includes improving the structure of the site, producing effective content and observing technical points to increase visibility and attract target users. The desired result is usually visible after a few weeks.
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SEO Getting Started Guide
When you built your website, you probably built it with your users in mind and tried to make it easy for them to find and explore your content. One of these users is the search engine that helps people discover your content. SEO, short for search engine optimization, is about helping search engines understand your content and helping users find your site and decide whether they should visit your site through a search engine.
Search Basics outlines the most important elements that qualify your website to appear in Google search. Although there is no guarantee that any particular site will be added to Google's index, sites that follow basic search principles are more likely to appear in Google search results. SEO is about taking the next step and trying to improve your site's search presence. This guide will walk you through some of the most common and effective improvements you can make to your site.
There is no secret here that will automatically get your site to the top of Google. In fact, some of these suggestions may not even apply to your business, but following best practices will hopefully make your content easier for search engines (not just Google) to crawl, index, and understand.
How does Google search work?
Google is a fully automated search engine that uses programs called crawlers to continuously crawl the web and search for pages to add to its index. You usually don't need to do anything other than publish your site on the web. In fact, the vast majority of sites listed in our results are automatically found and added as we crawl the web. If you're interested in more information, we have documentation on how Google discovers, crawls, and serves web pages.
How long will it take for me to see an impact in search results?
Any changes you make will take some time to be reflected by Google. Some changes may take effect within hours, others may take months. In general, you'll probably want to wait a few weeks to assess whether your work has had any beneficial effects on Google search results. Keep in mind that not all changes you make to your website will result in a significant impact on search results, if you're not happy with your results and your business strategies allow, try repeating the changes and see if they make a difference.
Help Google find your content
Google finds pages primarily through links from other pages previously reviewed. In many cases, these are other websites that link to your pages. Linking other sites is something that happens naturally over time, and you can also encourage people to discover your content by advertising your site.
If you have no problem with technical challenges, you can also send a sitemap - which is a file that includes all your site's URLs that are important to you. Some CMS (CMS) may even do this for you automatically. However, this is not necessary and you should first focus on making sure people are aware of your site.
Check if Google can see your page as a user sees
Check if Google can see your page as a user would
Don't want to have a page in Google search results?
It may be important to you to prevent the entire site or parts of it from appearing in search results. For example, you might not want your posts about your embarrassing new haircut to show up in search results. Google supports various methods that allow you to prevent your URLs from being crawled and indexed. If you need to block certain files, directories, or even your entire site from Google search, check out our guide on how to block content from appearing in search results.
Organize your site
When you're launching or rebuilding your site, it can be helpful to organize it in a logical way because it can help search engines and users understand how your pages relate to the rest of your site. However, don't give up and start reorganizing your site right away: While these suggestions can be useful in the long run (especially if you're working on a larger website), search engines will likely understand your pages as they are now, regardless of how your site is organized.
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Use descriptive URLs
For example, consider the following URLs: https://www.example.com /polities/return-policy.html https://www.example.com /promotions/new-promos.html The content of the Policy directory rarely changes, however, the Promotions directory content will probably change most of the time. Google can learn this information and crawl different directors at different frequencies. To find out more about the structures of the site suitable for search, check our guide for e -commerce sites, which is more important for the URL structure because they are usually larger.
Google automatically learns breadcrumbs based on the words in the URL, but if you're up for a technical challenge, you can also influence them with structured data. Try to include words in the URL that might be useful to users, for example:
https://www.example.com/pets/cats.html
A URL that only contains random identifiers is less useful to users; For example:
https://www.example.com/2/67727560787920636174
Group thematically similar pages into directories
If you have more than a few thousand URLs on your site, how you organize your content may affect how Google crawls and indexes your site. In particular, using directories (or folders) to group similar topics can help Google understand how often URLs in different directories change.
Some websites show the same content under different URLs called duplicate content. Search engines for each content select a single URL (conventional URL) to display to users.
Reduce duplicate content
If you have multiple pages that have the same information, try to create a redirect from URLs related to the URL that best shows the information. If you can't make a redirection, use the re = "Canonical" link instead. But again, don't worry too much; Search engines can usually detect this for you most of the time.
When working on standardization, try to make sure that each piece of content on your site is only accessible via a separate URL, having two pages that contain the same information about your ads can be a confusing user experience (for example, people may wonder which page is the right one and if there is a difference between the two).
If you have multiple pages that have the same information, try redirecting from unrelated URLs to the URL that best displays that information. If you can't redirect, use the rel="canonical" link element instead. But again, don't worry too much about this; Search engines can usually figure this out for you most of the time.
Make your site interesting and useful
Creating content that people find interesting and useful will probably have more impact on your website's presence in search results than any other suggestion in this guide. While "engaging and useful content" can mean different things to different people, content like this generally shares some common characteristics, such as:
▪️ Text is easy to read and well organized: Write the content naturally and make sure the content is well written, easy to understand and free of spelling and grammar mistakes. Break long content into paragraphs and sections, and provide headings to help users navigate your pages.
▪️ Content is unique: When you write new content, don't copy someone else's content in whole or in part: create the content yourself based on what you know about the topic. Don't just repeat what others have already published.
▪️Content is up-to-date: Review previously published content and update it if needed, or even remove it if it's no longer relevant.
▪️Content is useful, trustworthy and people-first: Make sure you write content that your readers will find useful and trustworthy. For example, providing expert or experienced references can help people understand the expertise of your articles.
Anticipate your readers' search terms
Think about the words a user might search for to find a piece of your content. Users who know a lot about the topic may use different keywords in their search than someone who is new to the topic. For example, some users may search for "charcuterie," while others may search for "cheese board." Anticipating these differences in search and writing behavior with readers in mind can have a positive impact on your site's performance in search results.
However, don't worry if you can't predict any changes in how someone will search for your content. Google's language matching systems are sophisticated and can understand your page's relevance to many search terms, even if you don't explicitly use the exact terms in them.
Link to Related Resources
While ads are part of the internet and are meant to be seen by users, don't let them become too distracting or prevent users from reading your content. For example, ads or interstitial pages (pages displayed before or after the content you expect) that make the website difficult to use.
Links to related resources
Links are a great way to connect users and search engines to other parts of your site or related pages on other sites. In fact, the vast majority of new pages Google finds each day are through links, making links a critical resource you should consider to help Google discover your pages and potentially show up in search results. Additionally, links can add value by connecting users (and Google) to another source that validates what you're writing about.
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Write a good link text
Link text (also known as anchor text) is the text part of the link that you can see. This text gives users and Google information about the page you are linking to. With the right anchor text, users and search engines can easily understand what content your linked pages contain before visiting.
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Links can provide more context on a topic, both to users and to search engines, which can help demonstrate your knowledge of a topic. However, when you link to pages outside of your control, such as content from other sites, make sure you trust the source you're linking to. If you can't trust the content and still want to link to them, add a nofollow or similar annotation to the link to prevent search engines from associating your site with the site you're linking to. This will help prevent possible negative consequences for your ranking in Google search.
If you accept user-generated content, such as forum posts or comments, on your site, make sure that any links posted by users have a nofollow or similar annotation that is automatically added by your CMS. Since you're not creating the content in this case, you probably don't want your site to be blindly linked to sites that users are linking to. This can also help prevent spammers from abusing your website.
Influence how your site appears in Google search
A Google search results page usually consists of a few different visual elements that you can influence to help users decide whether or not to visit your site through those search results. In this section, we'll focus on the title link and code snippet because these are the more important visual elements.
Impress your title links
The title link is the header section of the search results and can help people decide which search result to click on. Google uses several sources to generate this title link, including the words inside the
If you're using a content management system (CMS), you may not need to do any technical work on your titles beyond just focusing on writing good titles. Most CMSs can automatically convert the titles you write into an HTML
Image of how title text appears on a web page and then how it appears in HTML
You can influence search title links by writing good titles: A good page title is clear, concise, and accurately describes the content of the page. For example, your title could include the name of your website or business, other important information such as the physical location of the business, and perhaps information about what the particular page offers users. Our documentation on title links has more tips on how to create good titles and how title links can influence your site's search results.
add the images to your site and optimize them
Below the title link, a search result usually has a description of the target page to help users decide whether to click on the search result. This is called a snippet.
This code snippet is taken from the actual content of the page that the search result links to, so you have complete control over the words that can be used to generate the code snippet. Sometimes, the code snippet may be taken from the content of the meta description tag, which is usually a brief, one- or two-sentence summary of the page. A good meta description is short, unique to a particular page, and contains the most relevant points of the page. For more inspiration, check out our tips for writing good meta descriptions.
Add images to your site and optimize them
Many people search visually, and images can be the first time people find your website. For example, if you have a recipe blog, people might find your content by searching for "fruit tart recipe" and browsing photos of different types of fruit tarts.
When you add images to your site, make sure people and search engines can find and understand them.
Add high quality images near relevant text
When you use high-quality images, you give users enough context and detail to decide which image best matches what they're looking for. For example, if people search for "enamel flower" and come across an edelweiss flower in the search results, a higher quality image will help them identify the type of flower.
Use images that are crisp and clear and place them near text that is related to the image. Text near images can help Google better understand what the image is about and what it means in the context of your page.
For example, if the page is reviewing yarn shops in London, it makes sense to embed one of your yarn shop photos in a section detailing the yarn shop's location, description and review information. This helps Google and users associate the image with text that provides more context to the page's topic.
Optimize your videos
Alt text is short but descriptive text that explains the relationship between the image and your content. This text helps search engines understand what your image is about and how your image relates to your page, so writing good alt text is very important. You can add this text to your HTML with the alt attribute of the img element, or your CMS may have an easy way to specify a description for the image when you upload it to your site. Learn more about how to write good alt text and how to add it to your images.
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advertise your website
If your website contains pages that are primarily about personal videos, people may also be able to find your site through video results in Google search. Many of the best practices for images and text also apply to videos:
▪️ Create high-quality video content and embed the video on a separate page, near the text that the video is about.
▪️Write descriptive text in the video titles and descriptions section (the video title is still a title, so you can apply title writing best practices here as well).
If your site is specifically focused on video, then keep reading to learn more about what you can do to optimize your videos for search engines.
Promote your website
Effectively promoting your new content will result in it being discovered faster by those interested in the same topic as well as by search engines. You can do this in several ways:
- Social media advertising
- Community participation
- Offline and online advertising
- Word of mouth and many other methods
One of the most effective and lasting ways is word-of-mouth advertising: that is, people who are familiar with your site tell their friends about it, who in turn visit your site. This can be time-consuming, and usually you should first invest your time and effort in other ways, such as community involvement. Our friends at Google for Creators have great resources on building and engaging your audience.
Trying to promote your company or site offline can also be beneficial. For example, if you have a business website, make sure its URL is listed on your business cards, letterheads, posters, and other materials. With their permission, you can also send periodic newsletters to your audience, informing them of new content on your website.
Like anything else in life, you can over-promote your site and actually hurt it: people may get tired of your ads, and search engines may consider some of these actions to be manipulation of search results.
Things we believe you should not focus on
As SEO has evolved, so have the ideas and practices (and sometimes, misconceptions) associated with it. What was considered best practice or top priority in the past may no longer be relevant or effective due to the way search engines (and the Internet) have evolved over time.
To help you focus on what really matters when it comes to SEO, we've rounded up some of the most common and prominent topics we've seen on the Internet. In general, our message on these matters is that you should do what is best for your business area. We will cover a few specific points here:
Meta keywords
Google search does not use meta keywords tags.
Stacking keywords
Excessive repetition of the same words over and over (even varied) is boring for users, and keyword stuffing is against Google's spam policy.
Subdomains vs. Subdirectories
From a business standpoint, do whatever makes sense for your business. For example, it will be easier to manage if the site is divided by subtopics, but other times, depending on the topic or industry of your site, it makes sense to divide topics into subdomains.
Keywords in domain name or URL path
When choosing your site name, do what works best for your business. Users will use this name to find you, so we recommend following general marketing best practices. From a ranking perspective, keywords in a domain name (or URL path) alone have no effect beyond showing up in breadcrumbs.
And speaking of domain names: TLDs (domain names ending in ".com" or ".guru") only matter if you're targeting users in a specific country, and even then it's usually a weak signal. For example, if you're trying to sell Dutch cheese to people searching from Switzerland, using a .ch domain name makes sense (both commercially and SEO-wise). Otherwise, Google Search doesn't care which TLD you use (be it .com, .org, or .asia).
PageRank
Although PageRank uses links and is one of Google's basic algorithms, Google search is more than just links. We have many ranking signals and PageRank is just one of them.
"Penalties" for duplicate content
If you have content that can be accessed via multiple URLs, that's okay; Don't worry about it. This method is inefficient, but not something that would cause a manual penalty. However, copying other people's content is a different story.
Number and order of titles
Having a semantic order for your headings is great for screen readers, but from Google's search perspective, it doesn't matter if you use them out of order. The web generally does not have valid HTML, so Google search can rarely rely on semantics hidden in the HTML specification.
Also, there is no ideal and magic number for the number of headings a page should have. However, if you think there are a lot of them, they probably are.
Minimum or maximum content length
Content length alone is not important for ranking purposes (there is no magic word count goal, minimum or maximum, although you probably want at least one word). If you vary the words (write naturally so it's not repetitive), you have a better chance of showing up in search, simply because you're using more keywords.
next steps
▪️ Getting started with Search Console: Setting up a Search Console account will help you monitor and optimize your website's performance in Google search. Learn how to set up your account and what reports to check first.
▪️Improve your website's SEO over time: Learn more about managing your site's presence over time, including more in-depth SEO tasks and scenarios, such as preparing for a site transfer or managing a multilingual site.
▪️Improve your site's appearance in Google search results: Valid structured data on your pages will rank your pages for many more Qualifies for specific features in Google search results, including review stars, carousels, and more. Explore the gallery of the types of search results your page can qualify for.
Be aware and ask questions
As you begin your SEO journey, here are some resources that can help you stay on top of the changes and new resources we release:
Google Search Center Blog: Get the latest information from our Google Search Center blog. You can find information about Google Search updates, new Search Console features, and more.
Google Search Central Help Forum: Ask questions about your site's SEO problems and find tips for building quality sites from the product forum for website owners. This forum has many experienced contributors including product experts and sometimes Googlers.
Google Search Center on LinkedIn and X (Twitter): Follow us for updates on Google Search and resources to help you create a great site.
Google Search Central YouTube Channel: Watch hundreds of helpful videos made for website owners.

