When learning how to SEO-ize your site, why wouldn’t you start with a guide of best practices authored by the biggest search engine out there? Took me only five weeks to figure that one out…

SEO Starter Guide from GOOG

Luckily, I’ve been implementing some of the tactics in the guide for the past couple of weeks. On the other hand, I’ve been pretty bad at benchmarking and my measurements are more seat of the pants than anything else. However, this site seems to be slowly crawling up the page ranks when I search for myself so I feel pretty good about that. Now that I’ve got Google Analytics and Webmaster Tool up, I’ll dig into the whole measuring/tracking stuff a bit more.