The Truth About Search Engine Optimization

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“Rebecca’s book is chapter-by-chapter gold for anyone who needs to understand how we find information on the Web.”

Kevin M. Ryan, Motivity Marketing, Inc., and Chairman of Search Engine Strategies Advisory Board

In this book, leading search optimization expert Rebecca Lieb brings together more than 50 absolutely crucial facts and insights decision-makers must know to drive more web traffic through better search engine placement. The Truth About Search Engine Optimization doesn't deliver abstract theory: it delivers quick, bite-size, just-the-facts information and plain-English explanations that executives, decision-makers, and even small business owners can actually use, no matter what kind of sites you're running, or what your goals are.

You will learn how to set realistic goals for search optimization... attract qualified traffic, not just "any" site visitors... incorporate search engine optimization into both new sites and redesigns... write for users... implement search-friendly content management... avoid problems with rich content technologies such as Flash and AJAX... create metatags that actually work... use public relations, blogging, and other techniques to drive traffic... budget and manage search optimization projects... and much more. 

This book reveals 51 PROVEN SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES and bite-size, easy-to-use advice that gets results including

• The truth about page rankings
• The truth about best SEO practices and SEO no-no’s
• The truth about link love, keywords, and tags

 Introduction     vii

Foreword by Fredrick Marckini     ix

Part I: The Basics of Search

Truth 1: Getting noticed by spiders, robots, and crawlers     1

Truth 2: Learn to do the Google dance     5

Truth 3: It's not about traffic—it's about qualified traffic     9

Truth 4: Your reputation is on the line     13

Part II: The Truth About Being Site-Specific

Truth 5: SEO is an ongoing project, not set-it-and-forget-it     17

Truth 6: SEO is not an afterthought     21

Truth 7: SEO results aren't immediate or lasting     25

Truth 8: You don't have a homepage anymore     29

Truth 9: Think like a publisher, even if you're not     33

Truth 10: Site and page design count     37

Truth 11: Write for users and search engines will follow     41

Truth 12: Keywords are key     45

Truth 13: Use analytics and keyword research tools     49

Truth 14: Site stats share the bad news, too     53

Truth 15: Think twice about hot new technologies     57

Truth 16: Content management systems matter—a lot     67

Part III: Tag, You're It!

Truth 17: What's in a title? Everything…     65

Truth 18: The relative importance of meta tags     71

Truth 19: Tag images, audio, video, and other media     75

Part IV: The Truth About Links

Truth 20: Some links are more equal than others     79

Truth 21: Building links through online directories     83

Truth 22: Using SEO PR as a link strategy     87

Truth 23: The jury is out on paid links     91

Truth 24: Share and share alike: Reciprocal linking     95

Truth 25: Ads are links, too     99

Truth 26: Build your site in a good neighborhood     103

Truth 27: Blogs are a terrific link strategy     107

Truth 28: Putting the kibosh on link love with nofollow links     111

Part V: You Call That a Search Engine?

Truth 29: Search is going vertical     115

Truth 30: Everyone is local somewhere     119

Truth 31: Get listed to get vertical     125

Truth 32: Optimize off-site searches     129

Truth 33: Universal search and personalized search     133

Part VI: Get a Social Life

Truth 34: Blogs are built for SEO     137

Truth 35: RSS feeds "feed" SEO efforts     141

Truth 36: Users will create content for you     145

Truth 37: Tag images, video, links, and other media     149

Part VII: Search Ranking

Truth 38: Being #1 ain't what it used to be     153

Truth 39: Don't live and die by PageRank     157

Truth 40: Wag the long tail     161

Part VIII: The Truth About SEO Management

Truth 41: In-house or outsource?     165

Truth 42: Hiring a great search professional     169

Truth 43: Great SEOs sweat the small stuff     173

Part IX: Don't Be Evil

Truth 44: Beware blackhat SEO     177

Truth 45: Search engines frown on keyword stuffing and spam     181

Truth 46: Don't cultivate link farms     185

Truth 47: It's very difficult to get unbanned     189

Truth 48: Moving to a new domain is stressful     193

Part X: Going Beyond

Truth 49: Global SEO     197

Truth 50: Mobile SEO is more important than ever     201

Truth 51: Sometimes you don't want to be found     205

About the Author     208

Note: Appendix A is available for free and located online at www.informit.com/title/9780789738318 within the Downloads tab.

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Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day

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Influence search engine results and bring targeted traffic to your Web site with an hour a day of search engine optimization (SEO). Drawing on years of experience as successful SEO consultants, Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin provide detailed, practical, and often surprisingly simple techniques for improving results. Their simple strategies include setting SEO goals, site optimization, developing and implementing a strategy that might include both free and paid efforts, and tools for monitoring trends, measuring the competition, and tracking results.

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Search Engine Optimization For Dummies

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The handy guide for getting your site to jump to the top, now updated with the latest tips and tricks!

A clear understanding of search engine optimization (SEO) is essential if you want your Web site to appear high in search results. This straightforward-but-fun guide provides you with a clear understanding of how you can use SEO as a key strategy for online marketing. After discussing search engine basics, SEO expert Peter Kent shares tips, tricks, and advice for making your content appealing to search engines. You'll explore new and updated content on Bing, Google's new "Caffeine" search algorithm, localized searches, Google Sidewiki, and more. Packed with invaluable insight for showing up in searches at Amazon, eBay, Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Craigslist, this updated guide puts you on your way to the top of the heap!

• Provides you with a clear understanding of the basics of search engine optimization
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The search for the best introduction to search engine optimization is over! Search Engine Optimization For Dummies, 4^th Edition offers everything you need to know to reach the top of the online mountain!

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Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (New Rules Social Media Series)

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Stop pushing your message out and start pulling your customers in

Traditional "outbound" marketing methods like cold-calling, email blasts, advertising, and direct mail are increasingly less effective. People are getting better at blocking these interruptions out using Caller ID, spam protection, TiVo, etc. People are now increasingly turning to Google, social media, and blogs to find products and services. Inbound Marketing helps you take advantage of this change by showing you how to get found by customers online.

Inbound Marketing is a how-to guide to getting found via Google, the blogosphere, and social media sites.

    • Improve your rankings in Google to get more traffic
    • Build and promote a blog for your business
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    • Measure what matters and do more of what works online

The rules of marketing have changed, and your business can benefit from this change. Inbound Marketing shows you how to get found by more prospects already looking for what you have to sell.

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SEO For 2012:Search Engine Optimization Secrets

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SEO For 2012:Search Engine Optimization Secrets(SEO) is the only DO-IT-YOURSELF SEO GUIDE you need. This book contains all the SEO strategies for 2012, tips, instructions, coding examples, and information you need to use SEO to optimize your website and dominate the world's leading search engines.

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You will learn from the number one leading SEO consultants and SEO experts who will teach you the specific SEO techniques that deliver top rankings and keep your website on page one. Whether you're a search engine optimization(SEO) expert or trying to perform SEO on your own, the SEO techniques revealed in this book will give you everything you need to dominate the leading search engines.

This is the only guide you need to place your website at the top of the major search engines in 2012! (Includes complete SEO coverage of Google Panda updates, Google Shopping, Google AdWords, Local SEO Search, Google Caffeine, Google Instant, and the latest in search engine optimization(SEO).

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Search Engine Optimization: SEO Secrets For 2011

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Search Engine Optimization: Secrets For 2011 is a book giving up to date information and 100% coverage of all the elements of Search Engine Optimization. Mike Monahan who consults with the best including SEO guru Sean Odom outlines the secrets professionals use themselves and charge thousands of dollars to provide to their customers. These strategies will help anyone optimize their website and dominate the world's leading search engines. The Internet is now the telephone book. So as a business you have to do the equivelent of a full page ad by being at the top of all the major search engines for your keywords. Your website has to stand out in the center of 80+ million other sites. This is the most up-to-date tell-all guide for anyone trying to reach the highly coveted #1 ranking on Google, Bing, Yahoo and any of the other major search engines. Whether you're a search engine optimization expert or new to web site rankings, the techniques revealed in this book will give you everything you need. This is the only guide you need to place your website at the top of the major search engines in 2011!

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SEO Results the Organic Way - Search Engine Optimization for Beginners

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Search Engine Optimization for Beginners

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The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization (Theory in Practice)

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SEO Secrets Unleashed: Simple, Yet Highly Effective, Search Engine Optimization Strategies Guaranteed To Propel Your Websites' Search Engine Rankings!

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One of the best forms of website traffic is traffic directly from the search engines.

There are basically 2 ways to get traffic from the search engines - You can either pay the search engines per click to have your website listed for the various keyword phrases, or you can get your website ranked well in the organic listings for the various keyword phrases (and you need not pay a single cent whenever someone clicks on your website to visit it).

If you want your website to be ranked well in the organic search engine listings, then it is a MUST that you search engine optimize your website.

Here's the good news - The entire search engine optimization process is not as daunting as it seems.

In "SEO Secrets Unleashed", you will discover shockingly simple, yet highly effective Search Engine Optimization strategies guaranteed to propel your websites' search engine rankings in very little or no time at all!

Here's a brief preview of what you will discover in this blueprint:

- 4 reasons why you MUST search engine optimize your websites (if you have not already done so)

- 4 "idiotically" simple tweaks you can do to fully optimize your entire website - You'll be shell shocked at how simple Search Engine Optimization is when you know what these 4 simple tweaks are…

- Long tail vs Short tail keywords: Which sets of keywords should you optimize your website for and why. This is a question that's being asked by many marketers when it comes to Search Engine Optimization, and you're going to discover the answer here.

- How to effectively optimize your title tags such that it will grab your prospective visitors' attention by their eyeballs and want to do nothing but click on the link to your website!

- What Search Engine Optimization "gurus" do not want you to know when it comes to optimizing your website description. Discover a really powerful strategy on optimizing your website description here.

- And much, much more!


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Outsmarting Google: SEO Secrets to Winning New Business (Que Biz-Tech)

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 “There are millions of idiots running around calling themselves Gurus. Evan is different. He goes in and simply gets it done the right way—legally, quick, and smart. Every company I start goes through Evan. I’d be crazy not to use him.”     —Peter Shankman

Outsmarting Google

Breakthrough Google site optimization techniques from one of the world’s leading authorities on SEO!

If you aren’t at or near the top of Google searches, you won’t be found. Your companymight as well not exist. But many common Google “search optimization” techniques don’t work—or even make things worse. In Outsmarting Google, world-renowned search expert Evan Bailyn reveals real, gritty, up-to-the-minute tactics that helped him attract more than 50,000,000 visitors last year without spending a dime on advertising! You won’t find any unethical “black hat” tricks here: only proven techniques that reflect comprehensive testing and extraordinary insight into Google’s secret rules. Read this book: Discover the supercharged site optimization techniques Google doesn’t want you to know!

New high-profit SEO solutions for every marketer, entrepreneur, and site owner!

•           Uncover SEO myths and outdated techniques that no longer work

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•           Integrate five core SEO ingredients: keywords, links, meta page title, URL structure, and time

•           Understand what’s really involved in choosing the best keywords

•           Acquire links that help, and avoid links from “bad neighborhoods”

•           “Age” your sites to build trust and escape the dreaded Google “sandbox”

•           Use Google AdWords to cost-effectively complement SEO and cover your “long tail”

•           Convert SEO results into paying customers

•           Optimize for Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube

•           Improve performance on Bing and Yahoo! without compromising your Google ranking

•           Prepare for brand-new trends in personalized and real-time search

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