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Four acknowledged experts in search engine optimization share guidelines and innovative techniques that will help you plan and execute a comprehensive SEO strategy. This second edition brings you up to date on recent changes in search engine behaviorsuch as new ranking methods involving user engagement and social mediawith an array of effective tactics, from basic to advanced.
- Comprehend SEOs many intricacies and complexities
- Explore the underlying theory and inner workings of search engines
- Understand the role of social media, user data, and links
- Discover tools to track results and measure success
- Recognize how changes to your site can confuse search engines
- Learn to build a competent SEO team with defined roles
- Glimpse the future of search and the SEO industry
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Eric Enge is the President of Stone Temple Consulting, a leading SEO consulting firm with offices in Boston and Northern California. Eric is a regular speaker at search industry conferences, such as Search Engine Strategies (SES), Search Marketing Expo (SMX), and Webmaster World. Eric also makes regular contributions on the topic of SEO to Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch, SEOmoz, and his own blogs. Eric is particularly known for his in depth interviews of major players in the search engine industry including dozens of people who work in senior capacities at the search engines. Eric is also asked to make guest contributions to Website magazine, other SEO related blogs and news web sites, and is a senior editor for the SEO section of the Search Engine Marketing Journal.
Stephan Spencer is founder and President of the highly-respected SEO firm Netconcepts. Clients include Discovery Channel, HSN, AOL, CNET, and SuperPages.com, to name a few. He is inventor of Netconcepts' automated, pay-for-performance SEO technology platform GravityStream which powers the natural search channel for online retailers such as Cabela's and Northern Tool. Stephan is a regular contributor to Search Engine Land, Multichannel Merchant, Practical Ecommerce and MarketingProfs, among others. Stephan is a sought-after conference presenter who's spoken on SEO at hundreds of events across the globe for organizations such as the DMA, the AMA, Shop.org, Internet Retailer, SMX, IncisiveMedia (Search Engine Strategies), O'Reilly/TechWeb, PubCon, ECMOD, IQPC and IIR. Stephan is an avid blogger. He blogs primarily on his own blog, Stephan Spencer's Scatterings. But his posts can also be found on Searchlight (part of the CNET Blog Network), Shop.org Blog, Natural Search Blog, BusinessBlogConsulting.com, MarketingProfs Daily Fix, Changes For Good, and Google.
Rand Fishkin is the CEO & Co-Founder of SEOmoz, a leader in the field of search engine optimization tools, resources & community. In 2009, he was named among the 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs Under 30 by BusinessWeek, and has been written about it in the Seattle Times, Newsweek and the New York Times among others. Rand has keynoted conferences on search from Sydney to Reykjavik, Montreal to Munich and spoken at dozens of shows around the world. He's particularly passionate about the SEOmoz blog, read by tens of thousands of search professionals each day. In his miniscule spare time, Rand enjoys the company of his amazing wife, Geraldine.
Jessie Stricchiola is a search industry veteran and founder and CEO of the highly-respected SEO firm Alchemist Media, Inc., consistently recognized by BtoB Magazine as one of the top search marketing vendors in the US. Jessie lectures extensively on all matters related to SEO and search at leading industry conferences worldwide, including ad:tech, SMX, Incisive Media's Search Engine Strategies, O'Reilly Media's Web 2.0 Summit, Webmaster World's PubCon, Shop.org, Stanford's Web Publishing Workshop and others. She is one of the original nine founders of SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization), serving two years on the Board of Directors for the organization while chairing the Membership Committee. Jessie is widely recognized for identifying and publicizing the first case of PPC click fraud in 2001, and her subsequent work to combat the issue has been featured in numerous media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, and NPR. Jessie has served as an expert consultant and witness on various internet and search-related litigation involving SEO and paid search, as well as patent, trademark, and copyright infringement on the web.
- ISBN-100596518862
- ISBN-13978-0596518868
- Edition1st
- PublisherOreilly & Associates Inc
- Publication dateOctober 28, 2009
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.05 x 1.24 x 9.09 inches
- Print length574 pages
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- Publisher : Oreilly & Associates Inc; 1st edition (October 28, 2009)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 574 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0596518862
- ISBN-13 : 978-0596518868
- Item Weight : 2.14 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.05 x 1.24 x 9.09 inches
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Rand Fishkin is the founder of SparkToro and was previously cofounder of Moz and Inbound.org. He’s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through the Whiteboard Friday video series, his blog, and his book, Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World. When Rand’s not working, he’s most likely to be in the company of his partner in marriage and (mostly petty) crime, author Geraldine DeRuiter. If you feed him great pasta or great whisky, he’ll give you the cheat code to rank #1 on Google.

Eric Enge is the CEO of Stone Temple Consulting (https://www.stonetemple.com), an SEO consulting firm with an office in Massachusetts. Eric is a regular speaker at search industry conferences, such as Search Marketing Expo, Pubcon, CLickZ Live, State of Search, SEMPO, and many others.
Eric also makes regular contributions on the topic of SEO to Search Engine Land, Moz, and the Digital Marketing Excellence Blog (https://www.stonetemple.com/blog)

Stephan Spencer is an SEO expert, founder of interactive agency Netconcepts (https://www.netconcepts.com), bestselling author, serial entrepreneur, Internet luminary, life hacker, podcaster, and contributor to Harvard Business Review and AdWeek. He has three books published by O’Reilly: The Art of SEO, Social eCommerce, and Google Power Search. He's optimized the websites of some of the biggest brands in the world, including Chanel, Volvo, Sony, and Zappos. Stephan hosts two popular podcast shows: Get Yourself Optimized (https://www.getyourselfoptimized.com) and Marketing Speak (https://www.marketingspeak.com/).

Founder of Alchemist Media, Inc., a San Francisco digital marketing consultancy, Jessie Stricchiola began her search engine optimization career in 1997. She has been qualified as an expert witness and testified in numerous patent, trademark, and class action litigation matters relating to search technologies and internet discoverability and has lectured at each of the search industry's leading conferences, including Search Engine Strategies, Search Marketing Expo, WebmasterWorld PubCon, ad:Tech and Shop.org.
Media coverage of Jessie's industry work on click fraud has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired Magazine, The Washington Post, CNBC, NPR, and The BBC, and her early work on click fraud was featured in The Google Story (1st Ed.) by David Vise. As an original founder of SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization), she served for two years on the Board of Directors for the organization.
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I bought this one because Rand Fishkin was involved as one of the authors... his video presentations and blog posts on SEOMoz, along with the rest of that site's contributers, already represent the most central and credible source of good SEO info on the web. The book follows suit in presenting clear explanations, and solid tactical advice on hundreds of areas, with just enough detail to help you talk like an expert, without bogging you down in trivia or tech-ese. A complete beginner might want to start with a more introductory text, or just stick to the web for awhile with the free stuff, as this book does presume a certain degree of knowledge. But if you know a little SEO and are web-savvy, this book will become your right-hand SEO guide.
One complaint that must be noted... the book's index is not nearly as complete as it should be - many terms that I just want to jump to and read about are not in the index. There is some amusing irony in the fact that a book about search is... uh... hard to search in. The Table of Contents makes up for this a bit, as it's relatively easy to scan that section and figure out where you need to go, but it would be better to have a more comprehensive index, because this is not a book you'd be likely to read cover to cover...it's more likely to be used again and again as ideas develop and questions arise. Maybe they will take care of that in subsequent editions, which will surely be necessary for a book covering a field that is constantly changing.
The Art of SEO is a thick, small-font reference guide covering everything that a quasi-professional or even current expert would want to have at hand, and the charts, tables, and resources are extensive and helpful. I don't expect the need to buy another book on SEO anytime soon, as this one gives me much to chew on.
If anyone has any other recommendations for SEO/SEM books for professional please leave a comment with the link on Amazon as I would be very interested.
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I can definitely see myself using this book as reference as I build my first real campaigns. They go into some technical detail that might not be for everyone, which you could probably skip. You may never need it but its good to have as reference in the off chance that you do need. They also discuss some PPC which is great to have as well as it turns out SEO and PPC go hand in hand much of the time.
Overall, the book has been great so far and worth the investment.
As a faculty member of the University of Milwaukee Wisconsin School of Information Studies, I found this very useful as a baseline text and can build on it later.
One suggestion though, the authors might consider structuring the book from basic to advanced and marking the areas that require subject matter expertise in other areas.
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CEO of SEO Done The Right Way
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This book is incredibly well laid out, fluid in its delivery and not having you jump all over the place, learning about something you will not understand until later in the book. I would go so far as to say that anyone interested in gaining serious results for their online venture, most certainly should have this book to hand at all times, be it conventional or digital. I have the book installed on my iPhone, Kindle and iPad and never without it. At the beginning I did find it a bit difficult and thought that I was not going to grasp the concepts, however I sincerely think this was more to do with my own personal intelectual capacity or lack of it.
This book is not for people just purely wanting to make money from a web site, YouTude Channel or social networking site. With "The Art of SEO", you will learn what I feel in much more important than money and that is gaining and keeping a community and thus receiving a steady stream of consistant reliable traffic. Pointing traffic to a site is not difficult, however turning that traffic into a loyal community is slightly more taxing but very much more rewarding and this is what "The Art of SEO", guides you to. My site Techmedia Fusion has only been live for five weeks and as a direct result of implementing instructions from "The Art of SEO", I have already noticed a vast difference in traffic and community build up on my site.
I do have a couple of complaints about the book through. First of all if you try to read the book all the way through it quickly becomes quite repetitive. The same techniques and problems are mentioned again and again but with the crucial details promised in later chapters. Fortunately the book has a very detailed index so you can use it more as a reference book and flick to the bits you are interested in.
The second problem has been mentioned in some other reviews and that is that some of the illustrations are very unclear.
Overall this is a good book to use to look for specific details but perhaps not to sit down and read all of the way through.
I am a newbie to the world of SEO and I have found this book very readable, without the flow interrupted by 100's of quaint stories which seem to litter many 'use the Internet to get rich!' text books. The book is quite substantive tome (574 pages in the index) but I certainly was happy to ready it from cover to cover. Having done that, I am sure that I will be dipping to the book to reference specific sections as my familiarity and involvement with SEO grows.
I suspect that the text will not be very helpful for those already sleeping and breathing SEO already. The book deals with the fundamentals - which is perfect for me but possibly not the `get a real-life, you SEO geek!' type.
Overall, I consider the money paid for this book as an investment, not a capital cost.







