Search Engine Guidelines

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If you want to learn about what each of the major search engines and directories want to see on your site there's no better place than to get the information straight from them.

Google

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters...swer=35769

Google also has Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide! on their search engine optimization page.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters...swer=35291

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/

YouTube - GoogleWebmasterHelp's Channel
are also good resources of information.
http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp

Bing

Bing Webmaster Center Help
http://help.live.com/help.aspx?mkt=en-CA...webmasters

Bing: New Features Relevant to Webmasters white paper is available for download.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/de...layLang=en

Search Blog - Bing Community
http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs...fault.aspx

Yahoo!
Note: On August 24, 2010 Yahoo! announced:
http://www.ysearchblog.com/2010/08/24/ya...-platform/

Yahoo! Transitions Organic Search Back-End to Microsoft Platform
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/...cs-18.html

As of this writing, they have not taken down their Webmaster Guidelines page so here it is:

Yahoo! Search Content Quality Guidelines
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/...cs-18.html

Yahoo! Search Blog
http://www.ysearchblog.com/

Whether you do your search engine optimization yourself or are considering hiring out the task, read through these resources and be informed.

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