Walk before you run: Google releases Search Engine Optimization 101 Guide

The first thing you learn in baseball is how to hold the bat (remember to line up your knuckles) and its pretty hard to go any further with the game until you figure this out.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is no different. There’s a whole world of amazing resources that discuss the day-to-day minutiae of SEO, and my two favorites are SEOmoz and SearchEngineLand.

However, before you dive into the technical details of How Google Improves Search Quality Through The User Interface I would suggest that you take time to understand the fundamentals. Just so happens that Google released a short and sweet beginner’s guide to Search Engine Optimization today.

So dive right in, the water’s fine and after you nail down the basics you’ll be talking Differential Diagnosis: A Broken Website Ranking Atop Google with the best of them.