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Really good stuff on SEO. I think the widgets are very good for testing various aspects involved by SEO. Here’s an excerpt: These Google Gadgets are lightweight XML programs that allow you to place interactive data inside web pages. This technology is useful for researching compact data points like site age, related keywords, or the quantity of inbound links pointing...

When using these operators, keep in mind that the syntax, or form, is xxx:URL, where xxx is the operator and URL is the domain name, also known as the web page’s URL. For example, a search for links to one of my favorite web pages is link:www.mypage.com/en/content/page.php. Note that you do not need and should not include the “http://” portion...

Google supports several advanced alternate query search operators. These are special query words that the Google search engine recognizes and then responds to accordingly. A discussion of advanced search operators is found at http://www.google.com/help/operators.html. The advanced alternate query search operators are: cache: Shows the version of the web page residing in Google’s cache; link: Lists the web pages that include...

One is here: Making Your Blog Content Discoverable and the other here: Ensuring Your Blog Is Crawlable Making Your Blog Content Relevant

This excerpts is taken from http://www.highrankings.com/advisor/getting-into-google/ and is a useful resource for Google beginners. I’ll start a large resource center for Google with both beginners and advanced Google optimization technics. Find more at author’s page. What Is Indexing? Basically, the process for the Google crawler is to first look at the robots.txt file in order to learn where it shouldn’t...