Official sources for the six-stage curriculum
The content package checked official documentation on 2026-10-10. This is editorial source review, not execution against your site.
- SEO Starter Guide ↗
SEO purpose, no ranking guarantee, and promotion. · 2026-10-10 - Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content ↗
People-first content, original value, and reliability. · 2026-10-10 - FAQ about Google Trends data ↗
Trends uses normalized relative interest, not absolute search volume. · 2026-10-10 - Google Search technical requirements ↗
Crawl access, HTTP 200, indexable content, and no indexing guarantee. · 2026-10-10 - Spam policies for Google web search ↗
Link spam, keyword stuffing, and scaled low-value content boundaries. · 2026-10-10 - Performance report: Search results ↗
Clicks, impressions, CTR, position, and filters. · 2026-10-10 - Get started with Search Console ↗
Site-owner reports for monitoring search performance. · 2026-10-10 - URL Inspection tool ↗
Stored index information, live tests, and property access. · 2026-10-10 - Introduction to robots.txt ↗
robots.txt controls crawling, not privacy. · 2026-10-10 - Block indexing with noindex ↗
The crawler needs page access to discover noindex. · 2026-10-10 - Canonical URL methods ↗
Canonical signals and consistency with links and sitemaps. · 2026-10-10 - Build and submit a sitemap ↗
Preferred URLs, accurate lastmod, and discovery rather than guaranteed indexing. · 2026-10-10 - Tell Google about localized versions ↗
Locale-specific URLs and reciprocal hreflang. · 2026-10-10 - Control your snippets in search results ↗
Search snippets may come from body content; meta descriptions are not mandatory display copy. · 2026-10-10 - Link best practices for Google ↗
Crawlable links and descriptive anchors. · 2026-10-10 - Collect campaign data with custom URLs ↗
UTM parameters and campaign attribution. · 2026-10-10
Stage structure, checklists, output templates, and diagnostic sequence are original First Crawl teaching design, not a Google-certified curriculum or ranking formula.
Editorial source review
The three guides were reviewed against their linked primary sources on 10 October 2026. Account steps are instructions for the authorized owner, not claims that this site can access an account. Worked records are synthetic.
- developers.google.com / technical ↗
- developers.google.com / intro ↗
- developers.google.com / block-indexing ↗
- support.google.com / 9012289 ↗
- www.bing.com / URL-Inspection-55a30305 ↗
- developers.google.com / build-sitemap ↗
- search.google.com / search-console ↗
- support.google.com / 7451001 ↗
- www.bing.com / webmasters ↗
- www2.bing.com / sitemaps-3b5cf6ed ↗
- blogs.bing.com / ↗
- www.bing.com / why-is-my-site-not-in-the-index-2141dfab ↗
- developers.google.com / seo-starter-guide ↗
- developers.google.com / snippet ↗
- developers.google.com / consolidate-duplicate-urls ↗
- developers.google.com / links-crawlable ↗
- developers.google.com / google-images ↗
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