Below you’ll find helpful topics that can get you started optimizing your site for Google, using Search Console and troubleshooting common problems.
Basics
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How
Google Works
Get started with the basics - Crawling, Indexing, and Ranking -
Claim your local listing
Tell Google your business's location -
Getting
started on your website
Best practices to help Google find, crawl, and index your site -
Google and
SEO
A starter's guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Intermediate
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Meta
Tags
Helping Google understand your content -
URL
Structure
Make your URL structure simple -
Getting Started in Webmaster
Tools
FAQs for Search Console -
Adding a
Site to Search Console
See what kinds of sites you can add to Search Console -
Verifying a
Site in Search Console
Verifying your ownership of a site -
Submitting
Sitemaps to Search Console
Configuring and submitting your sitemap -
Webmaster Central Deep Dive: +1 Metrics
Activity, audience, and search impact
Advanced
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Canonicalization
Picking a preferred URL for a given page -
Mobile Sites
Tips on optimizing mobile sites for Google -
GeoTargeting
and Internationalization
Setting a geographic target for your site -
Reporting
Spam
How to report spam, paid links, malware and other problems -
Linking
Schemes
More details about link schemes and their impact on your site -
Malware
and Hacking
Help for dealing with malware and hacking -
Reconsideration
Asking Google to reconsider your site