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All the information needed for good SEO is publicly available from Google.

My SEO 101 has always been "Build a technically sound website with good content and UX. Then talk about it."

Google will follow, you shouldn't be chasing them. They are in the business of providing the most relevant results, make it easy for them to crawl you and the rest will come over time with trust.

It actually is.

Anything else may help in the short term but it all ends up falling over when the "All Mighty Google" rollout a "Panda/Penguin" update, luckily sites sell you "Penguin Proof SEO!".

Can you point me to a detailed Google document on how to migrate a large say 5M page site from several platforms to another one.

I had to work with 10 RC's and almost 5 months from the third party developer to get FWI's new classified platform in a fit state to launch - and that snot counting the work to develop the redirect plan.

While 5 million pages is a very big number (that probably requires a lot more planning) this might be the Google document you are looking for:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

  Moving your site
  If you're planning on moving your site to a new domain, 
  here are some tips that will help you retain your site's
  ranking in Google's search results.

Edit: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/moving-to-a-new-web-host/ (2005)

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.nl/2008/04/best-pract... (2008)

oh a single page how generous of them :-0

Also make sure you check out these videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wATxftE8ooE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1lVPrYoBkA

and maybe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7M22teF3Ho depending on your circumstances.

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