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Google today released the third iteration of its SEO starter guide. This version is about half the size of the second version and is primarily written for people who are SEO newbies.
Google’s SEO Starter Guide was originally released in 2008 as a PDF version. It was last updated in 2017.
What changed. Google announced that the new version is “pocket-sized version of the SEO Starter Guide.” Google also said this new version has “a better focus on a starter audience and the topics we think a person who’s just dipping their toes in SEO should focus on and why.”
Google removed:
Google added:
Google compressed a lot of content including:
More to come. Google added that it hopes to never change this starter guide but it will “continue making our documentation clearer and easier to understand in the coming months.”
Why we care. The Google SEO starter guide is something many new and old SEOs have read at some point in their career. Now that it was updated, you all should probably take a quick look through it to see what changed.
If you want to see the old version, here it is in the Wayback Machine and you can compare it to the new live version.
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