Tips, tricks, and little-known methods used by professional SEO consultants to rank in some of the most competitive search phrases

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of creating, formatting and promoting web pages in a manner that ensures that they are ranked highly for chosen keyword phrases after a user performs a Web search. This unique book taps the relatively unknown market of advanced SEO knowledge, and reveals secrets used by only the best SEO consultants.

You'll take your Internet marketing skills to the next level as you gain a thorough understanding of standard SEO techniques such as on-page optimization, off-page optimization, and link building. Packed with real-world examples, this essential guide demonstrates how real SEO consultants work with Fortune 500 companies to get the results they desire.

• Explains the basics of search engine optimization (SEO) and how it enables a specific site to rank high in a Web search based on particular keyword phrases
• Shares little-known tricks and tips of SEO consultants that work with Fortune 500 companies
• Demonstrates how to perform a professional SEO Web site audit
• Reveals the techniques that current SEO leaders use to remain high in rankings
• Divulges secrets for spying on your competitors' ranking techniques

As the only book focused on the subject of SEO consulting, this must-have resource unveils secret tricks of the trade. ....read more

Remember when an optimized website was one that merely didn't take all day to appear? Times have changed. Today, website optimization can spell the difference between enterprise success and failure, and it takes a lot more know-how to achieve success.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the tips, techniques, secrets, standards, and methods of website optimization. From increasing site traffic to maximizing leads, from revving up responsiveness to increasing navigability, from prospect retention to closing more sales, the world of 21st century website optimization is explored, exemplified and explained.

Website Optimization combines the disciplines of online marketing and site performance tuning to attain the competitive advantage necessary on today's Web. You'll learn how to improve your online marketing with effective paid and natural search engine visibility strategies, strengthened lead creation and conversion to sales methods, and gold-standard ad copywriting guidelines. Plus, your increased site speed, reduced download footprint, improved reliability, and improved navigability will work synergistically with those marketing methods to optimize your site's total effectiveness.

In this book for business and IT managers, author Andrew King, president of Website Optimization, LLC, has assembled experts in several key specialties to teach you:

Search engine optimization -- addressing best (and worst) practices to improve search engine visibility, including step-by-step keyword optimization guidelines, category and tag cloud creation, and guerilla PR techniques to boost inbound links and improve rankings Pay-per-click optimization -- including ad copywriting guidelines, setting profit-driven goals, calculating and optimizing bids, landing page optimization, and campaign management tips Optimizing conversion rates -- increasing leads with site landing page guidelines, such as benefit-oriented copy, credibility-based design, value hierarchies, and tips on creating unique selling propositions and slogans Web performance tuning -- optimizing ways to use (X)HTML, CSS, and Ajax to increase speed, reduce your download footprint, and increase reliability Advanced tuning -- including client-side techniques such as on-demand content, progressive enhancement, and inline images to save HTTP requests. Plus server-side tips include improving parallelism, using cache control, browser sniffing, HTTP compression, and URL rewriting to remap links and preserve traffic Web metrics -- illustrating the best metrics and tools to gather details about visitors and measure web conversion and success rates, and covering both search marketing metrics and web performance measures including Pathloss and waterfall graphs.

Website Optimization not only provides you with a strategy for success, it also offers specific techniques for you and your staff to follow. A profitable website needs to be well designed, current, highly responsive, and optimally persuasive if you're to attract prospects, convert them to buyers, and get them to come back for more. This book describes precisely what you need to accomplish to achieve all of those goals. ....read more

Here are the questions you need to answer, to be able to create a web site and make money from it:

1. What to sell (products, services, advertisements or a brand)?

2. How to sell (web design, copy writing, technology, getting paid online)?

3. How to get visitors to your web site (generating traffic: free and paid)?

4. How to get them to buy your stuff (conversion: creating something remarkable, pre-selling, branding, trust building, give-aways)?

5. How to keep them and their friends coming back for more (upselling, cross-selling, affiliate program, joint ventures, self-sustaining lead generation)?

Master these 5 areas, one item at a time, and you are golden.

But the real secrets lie in knowing not just what to do, but more importantly, how to do it.

The web is full of information, but the problem is, the web is full of information! No, that was not a misprint - half of what is in this book is probably out there somewhere on the web, distributed among millions of pages. The problem is that the good information is hiding out there along with the bad information, and there is no easy way to find it.

All of that information is of absolutely no use unless someone collects it, reviews it, filters it and validates it. Yes, that last part - validating it - is the most important one. It is so easy to publish your thoughts online, that it has become almost impossible to cut through the clutter and get to the good stuff.

For instance, if you did a Yahoo! or Google search on Yahoo SEO or Google SEO, you will get millions of web pages that supposedly have information about optimizing your web site for Yahoo! or Google. That information is buried within thousands of blog posts, forum postings, newsletters, reports, and niche sites.

If it is all sitting out there for free, then why is it that there people pay Yahoo a one time fee $299, and an ongoing yearly fee of $299 (forever) to get their web site listed in Yahoo's index (on top of that, if you stop paying them, and they will remove your site from their database)? And then there are others who pay hundreds, if not thousands, to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) companies or to buy high-priced commercial tools, in order to get top rankings on Google.

Are these people crazy to pay so much money to others to get their sites ranked on these search engines, when all of that information is available for free? Or are they just too lazy to do it themselves?

The truth is they are neither crazy, nor lazy. The problem is one of validation.

There is no practical way of finding out whether all that information available for free is any good at all, unless someone puts them all together in context, in a meaningful, consumable way - someone who can be trusted as a source, someone who is an authority on the subject, and someone who has done it all themselves - someone like yours truly.

In this book, you will learn spectacularly simple and completely free ways to get a spanking new web site (with absolutely no PageRank, no incoming links, no visitors) not just listed on Yahoo! and Google within days, but also get a top ranking on both these search engines (along with the rest) without spending a single dime on SEO, without exchanging a single link, without building a single list, without sending out a single email, without buying a single piece of software that promises top rankings.

In fact, you will learn how to use the very same techniques to get not one, not two, but three top Google listings for the same web site, without using even one black-hat or gray-hat technique.

Just the two chapters on Traffic Generation and Link Popularity alone will be worth 10 times the price of this book. But I'll let you be the judge.

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A very well-designed web site is useless if no one can find it on the web. If your company is going to succeed on the web, optimizing your site for search engine visibility is a must. Especially since it is the telephone book of the now, not the future. This book is written by the two most noted and accomplished experts in the field of search engine optimization (SEO) and provides you with proven guidelines, cutting-edge techniques, tips, and the how-to's for planning and executing a comprehensive SEO strategy.This is the first book to cover the Bing search engine in-depth. It tackles how to submit your website to the search engines, basic to advanced optimization techniques, learn how to determinetrophy keywords, keyword density, little known tricks and methods pros use, learn how to increase your rankings, and learn from those who started the entire SEO industry.This is the only guide you need! ....read more

SEO Secrets For 2010 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 keep to themselves and charge thousands of dollars to provide. 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 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 2010! ....read more

REVISED AND EXPANDED 2010 EDITION Top search engine optimization techniques for getting your website highly ranked in Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines. It's time for all the confusion to end and everyone should have access to the same information and methodologies behind search engine optimization. SEO isn't rocket science, it is mostly best practices and a little common sense thrown in. If you want to get the upper hand and gain better traffic and high search engine ranking then I encourage you to read the book. You have nothing to lose, and everything to gain. The Confidential SEO Secrets book contains proven methods for driving more search engine traffic. I have been using the same SEO techniques for nearly sixteen years, my book gives you the same exact information. My SEO book is not a collection of theories, guesses, useless SEO tips or tools, it contains actual illustrated methods, tips and techniques that I use every single day. They work for me and they will work for you. Knows his stuff. I've had advice from the author and he knows what he's talking about and HOW to explain it. Great book. ~ S.W. Shanks Solid Information. Worthwhile reading. I have been involved with search engine optimization for several years, and do a great job at promoting my sites. I can say with confidence that this book is a good one. ~ Kevin P. Ellens ....read more