Google on how to do SEO

June 27, 2012 | Online Marketing

Google just posted a new resource on its developer blog intended to help startups with the basics of search engine optimization (SEO). One of the company's key suggestion is keep page content focused on one topic, and optimize the page for this one topic.

Google dominates the search-engine space in the U.S. with 70 percent market share, so optimizing your site to land a good ranking in Google search results is vital. And where better to learn how to improve your Google ranking than from the source?

The tips range from simple, such as setting up a Google Webmaster Tools account and verifying your site ownership so that Google can inform you of any problems accessing your site, to the less obvious, such as doing a domain background check to ensure that whoever owned your domain before didn’t taint your web address with spammy content, scams, or even malware.

SEO expert Graeme McLaughlin of Optamo reviewed Google’s suggestions and provided a few more.

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