Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day
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Back and bracing as ever, Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day, Second Edition offers brisk advice, bite–sized tasks, and smart tools to help you increase visibility for your website on the major search engines. In this new edition of their bestselling how–to guide, SEO consultants Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin offer surprisingly easy do–it–yourself techniques as well as the very latest SEO strategies for small, very small, and large businesses, as well as for bloggers and web designers.
From the Back CoverPut Your Website in the Spotlight A Step–by–Step Guide Back and bracing as ever, Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day, Second Edition offers brisk advice, bite–sized tasks, and sma…
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5.0 out of 5 stars
V useful guide for non-techies
I haven’t finished reading this book yet but am finding it a very useful guide. I’m not a compueter techie at all, just a sole-trader trying to promote my business.
This review is from: Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day (Paperback)
I have been optimising sites for search (with a reasonable degree of success) as part of my occupation as a web developer for nearly four years now. At the time of writing, my site is #1 and #2 (out of more than 8. 5 million) in Google for my chosen keyword term. Upon reading this book, I learned how to turn the “basic optimisation” that I do well, into a much more professional optimisation service suitable to be presented to (potential) clients. I own 8 SEO books. If you’re starting out, “Search Engine Optimization for Dummies” is a good place to start but I have learned more useful stuff from this book than from the other 7 combined.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A very useful book
Not all the way through the book yet, but it seems to be exactly whats needed to get your website scoring well on the search engines.
This review is from: Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day (Paperback)
Excellent! This is just the book if you need to make the most of your web site, improve its search rankings, increase its traffic, and generally made the most of what you want it to do. This applies to a single person business, small, medium, large or multinational firm. Whatever your circumstances, commercial, private or charitable, you will make more of your web site if you follow this guide. Excellently written, in clear English, Search Engine Optimisation – An Hour A Day, will quickly and easily lead you to a greater understanding of how to carry out an SEO Plan. You are given the correct information in order to be able to do this and you are not given anything superfluous, saving you time and allowing you to concentrate on the actions that will get you to where you want to be. You can even choose to concentrate on only those matters which are absolutely essential thereby saving you even more time. The two authors are greatly experienced in helping real people in every size and type of organisation to maximise their Search Engine rankings and make the most of their web site generally, and this shows in the book. You will find that they speak to you clearly and that you will gather information quickly and easily. They only use technical jargon when necessary and it is thoroughly explained accordingly. This book will suit you whether you are a techie or not. The book will give you the knowledge that you need and will then supply you with a plan so that you can carry out SEO in an orderly fashion. Much more than this, the book cleverly helps you to identify the results that you want from your web site. The experience that the authors have working with all sizes and shapes of organisations is used to good effect and you will find that there is added value in helping you to get different departments to work together. You will even find that you can access all the documents you need to carry out your campaign by simply visiting their web site and downloading all the templates that you need, such as To Do Lists, Keyword Spreadsheets and more. It is up to you how much time you spend every day on your project so you can spend less than one hour day if you choose. You will find that you will have enough knowledge to be able to promote your web site in the way that you want by the time that you have finished reading this book. An easy read, logical, no boring history of the Internet, and a plan that just about anybody could carry out quite easily. Full marks all round!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic
Well, what a beautifully fantastic book.
Completely up to date, realistic for anybody whether your a SME or anything but, with precise information that is straight to…
I run a small website and SEO has always been on my list of things to do yet I could never find enough motivation to sit down and actually find out what the whole fuss is about and how to go about being a part of it. This book certainly sorted this out for me once and for all. It’s very much like a user-friendly textbook (and one does not come across these very often) which takes you step by step through all the stages of implementing a successful SEO. It’s very suitable for people like myself running a small internet business on top of normal 9-5, but it will be equally appropriate for a medium-sized company or a large organization. What I liked the most is the fact that the authors made an effort and broke this seemingly impossible for one person task into small managable chunks or hours and if you just do one bit at a time you know that in the end you’re going to achieve what you set out to achieve. Highly recommended and probably one of the best on the market.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great resource
As someone who undertakes SEO projects for clients as well as working on the SEO of our company’s website, I found this book immensely useful.
5.0 out of 5 stars
the only seo/sem book you need
Excellent book, simply put – brilliant! i cannot put it down. amazing results from commited plan ’supervised’ by the authors. very very happy.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent bok
This book excellent! I am working on my website and this book has been everything I needed in order to make it happen!
Thank you
5.0 out of 5 stars
Practical handholding through the SEO jungle
A cracking introduction to Search Engine Optimisation (or Search Engine Marketing as they would prefer to call it!
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Search Engine Optomisation: an hour a day
I found this a very interesting and focused book. The authors have a very direct and informative style.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Extremely interesting and well worth the money
Being relatively new to SEO campaigns, I had a basic understanding of what was necessary, but have gleaned lots of extremely interesting information that I was not aware of…