Six practical lessons
Six lessons toward a clear page draft.
This is the sequence for your work. Learn how search discovers, retrieves, stores, and displays pages in the introduction first.
Read the introduction firstI do not have a website
Use paper or a document, starting with four lines. Learn all six lessons with fictional examples and drafts, without a domain or webmaster account. A draft is not a published page, and planned features are not working ones.
Go to lesson 1I have a website
Choose a page you manage that is intended to be public. Check whom it helps and what it does. If that is clear and you need access or search checks, continue to lesson 4. Keep private pages private.
Go to lesson 4Decide whom to help
What should my page be about?
Sketch the page
What should someone see when they arrive?
Write and make the page
What makes the page genuinely useful?
Check the published page
If I can open it, can Google definitely read it?
Help people find a way in
Who will know the page is there?
Check what happened, then improve
Did people miss it, or could they not use it?
The timer and records here are fictional. For real checks, keep dates, observations, and unknowns. Without access or data, record “not checked.”