Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead at Google, posted a video on the Google Webmaster Blog about how to learn the “essential” SEO techniques for your web site. It is targeted specifically at sites with under 50 pages or so, that want to rank for their company name and related keywords, and want to be “smart about search engines and attracting searchers.”

Here is that video:

Google also published several new videos on the Google Webmaster Academy. Here are those pretty short videos:

How malicious parties can spam your site:

Using Sitemaps to help Google find content hosted on your site:

Learn how to engage with your audience using social networks:

Errors that Google may find and report while crawling your site:

Understand which Google searches are driving traffic to your site:

Learn about the Google Webmaster Tools Message Center:

Creating great content that performs well in Google search results:

Finding your site on Google:

Webspam Content Violations:

Related Topics: Channel: SEO | Google: SEO | Google: Web Search | Google: Webmaster Central

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