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SEO Made Simple: Strategies for Dominating the World's Leading Search Engine is a tell-all guide for anyone trying to reach the highly coveted #1 ranking on Google for their Web site or Blog. Learn from a leading Webmaster the specific SEO techniques that deliver top rankings in less than 30 days. Whether you're a search engine optimization expert or new to Web site rankings, the techniques revealed in SEO Made Simple will give you everything you need to dominate the leading search engines. Generate tons of traffic to your website absolutely FREE with top search engine placement on Google, Yahoo! and MSN. SEO Made Simple is the only resource on search engine optimization that you'll ever need.
Simple language, very good informationReviewed by Nikul Patel, 2010-03-03
If you want to be smart on SEO in very little time, this is the best buy for the buck. Good luck.
Great, easy to understand and put into practiceReviewed by D.C., 2010-03-01
I had been recently introduced to the SEO world when I bought this
book because I wanted to broad my knowledge.
As the title says, I was not expecting a super technical guide
written for experts in the field. I was expecting a simple and
practical guide to be able to learn the key SEO principles and
techniques which would enable me to handle a conversation with my
web designer and give them some instruction. As a result I just had
my first meeting with the web design company, they were really
impressed as I simplified their job. In fact, they didn't know much
about my business but, using the information learned from the book
I provided them with a list of keywords relevant to my business, a
first analysis of the competitors and the key information on how I
want the structure of my website.
With regards to off page optimization, again I found a lot of
useful tips. If you want, I believe you can try to do it yourself
by using the information you got from the book. However, it's very
time consuming and, as a website owner, you might need to focus on
other part of the business. So, the book gave me enough knowledge
to make decisions, plan how to do it, choose the right people for
the job and allocate to them the work.
In conclusion, if you want to become a SEO Specialist, this book is
a great place to start but it's definitely not enough. Let's be
realistic, how can you really expect to learn any profession by
reading one book?!
However, if your aim is to get an understanding of the SEO world to
help your business grow, do not look anywhere else, this is the
book for you.
Leveling the playing fieldReviewed by Gary E. Albers, 2010-02-16
I think it's time that someone gives this book something other than
a five star review which, in my opinion, it doesn't merit. Toward
that end, here's my take:
Judging from the content of the many laudatory reviews, this book's
primary audience is among people who are amateurs or noobies in the
field of website design and functionality. If your experience in
designing a webpage is limited to a WYSIWYG editor, if you don't
understand XHTML, you're not sure what tag, element, attribute or
"meta" mean, then this book is probably appropriate to your level
of knowledge.
Of course, there's nothing wrong with being inexperienced.
Everybody has to start at the beginning. However, if you are an
experienced website designer who, hopefully, hand-codes your pages
in XHTML and CSS, makes an effort to comply with current standards
for the separation of structure and presentation, and are making
more than a formal bow to the need for accessibility, then there is
likely to be little of interest to you in this book.
To be fair, there are certainly many good pieces of advice here,
despite the author using the first 20% of the ~100 pages to toot
his own horn. However, there is little information that could not
be found by spending a couple of hours searching the internet for
SEO topics; i.e., almost all of what the author "reveals" is rather
common knowledge. Again, in the interest of fairness, the author
readily admits that he is not a code expert. As a result, there are
very few useful examples of actual HTML markup code. The snippets
that do exist would be old news to a real developer but, occurring
without the context of a real document, would be of little use to a
novice designer.The glossary at the end of the book, which takes up
about 10% of an already suspiciously short volume, is the last
place I would turn for a cogent definition of many of the terms he
includes; e.g., "Cascading style sheets (CSS) - used to manipulate
and easily manage the design of a website." Hmmm...perhaps that
definition could be improved and expanded a bit for the next
edition.
As an ex-professional printer (many years ago), I was disappointed
with the design and typography of this book. Besides coming across
with too much similarity to the "Get Rich Quick with Real Estate
Foreclosures" and "Dr. X's New Wonder Diet" genre, the book is
poorly edited (too many typos) and composed in a sans-serif
typeface (alright, I admit to being biased against that), making it
difficult to read for long lengths of time. Also, many of the
screen capture illustrations are so small that I needed a
magnifying class to read them. I applaud the quite-readable choice
of a large point-size for the body type, but that also helps pad
out to about 100 sparse pages what should have probably been
nothing more than a pamphlet half that size.
To his credit, the author seems to have adhered to the pre-eminent
rule of the medical profession: "First of all, DO NO HARM!" His
advice is all good, if not exhaustive, and there is certainly
something here for any newcomer to website functionality. He also
does a good job of steering the reader away from the "black hat"
techniques that may have been effective in the not too distant
past. Kudos to him for that. But, in contrast to the many other
reviews declaring this book as the be-all and end-all of SEO
advice, I beg to differ. There are other books on the subject as
good, or better, than this one. Given the short length, the
sub-standard physical design and production, the pretty well known
nature of most of the advice given, I suggest it is over-priced; a
price more like $7.95 would come closer to the real value of this
tome.
However, if you are a noobie who is being pressured by some
self-proclaimed SEO expert, who is promising to get you on Google's
first page for the mere sum of $695, then buying and reading this
book at its current price may very well be a real money-saving
bargain! Bottom-line: it's not a BAD book; it's just not that GOOD!
Caveat emptor!
Easy to followReviewed by S. Holstein, 2010-02-08
I like the writing style of this book, it really does make the
concepts simple, other books make it seem so confusing and to be
sure there is more to SEO than meets the eye... but I am halfway
through it and already seeing boosted results! Gonna follow thru on
all of it!
Thanks !
Susie
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Simply the BestReviewed by Guido Verbaggio, 2010-01-30
I've been doing SEO off and on for the last five years. This book reminded me of some of the "best of" practices, plus it also taught me a lot that I never knew. I've already gone through one of my clients' sites and re-done some of their on-page optimization, based on the techniques he's shared. Plus, I'm now working on more off-page optimization techniques that I never new about. I've only had the book a few days, but this client's site is already moving up in Google for several different key words. Thanks for your hard work, Michael!
