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SEO Starter Guide (Google Search Central)

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Google's own guide to the basics: helping Google find and understand your pages, titles, descriptions, links and content people want. It says changes can take a few hours to several months to show.

  • Write descriptive titles and a meta description per page.
  • Link your pages to each other with descriptive anchor text.
  • Wait a few weeks before judging an SEO change.
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It answers 2 questions

  1. How do I increase traffic to my website?
  2. How do I do SEO for my website, step by step?

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