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Webmaster Guidelines - Webmaster Tools Help

Webmaster Guidelines - Webmaster Tools Help
Following the General Guidelines below will help Google find, index, and rank your site. We strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the Quality Guidelines below, which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise affected by an algorithmic or manual spam action. If a site has been affected by a spam action, it may no longer show up in results on Google.com or on any of Google's partner sites. General Guidelines Ensure that all pages on the site can be reached by a link from another findable page. The referring link should include either text or, for images, an alt attribute, that is relevant to the target page. Ways to help Google find your site: Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content. Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. Quality guidelines Matt Cutts talks about manual action on webspam

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