The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization
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The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization

3rd Edition

Price
$48.19
Format
Paperback
Pages
994
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1491948965
Dimensions
7 x 1.96 x 9.19 inches
Weight
3.66 pounds

Description

Eric Enge is the founder and CEO of Stone Temple Consulting, a leading SEO firm that serves a wide variety of companies, including a number of Fortune 100 companies. He writes regular columns in Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch, and has also provided feature articles to SEOmoz. The interview series he publishes on the Ramblings about SEO blog ( http://www.stonetemple.com/blog ) regularly provides information directly from senior people fro Google and Microsoft on a regular basis. Eric is also a highly regarded speaker, and regular speaks on Internet marketing topics at conferences such as Pubcon, Search Engine Strategies, Search Marketing Expo, the American Marketing Association, SEMPO, Internet Retailers, O'Reilly, Web 2.0, and many others. You can also see content published by Eric on a regular basis by following him on Twitter (@stonetemple) or putting him in one of your circles on Google+ (+Eric Enge). Stephan Spencer is an internationally recognized SEO expert, Internet entrepreneur, sought-after professional speaker, and bestselling author. He is the author of Google Power Search and coauthor of The Art of SEO and of Social eCommerce, all published by O’Reilly. He is the host of the podcasts Marketing Speak and The Optimized Geek. Stephan produces and presents the 3-day training intensives Traffic Control and Passions into Profits. He is producing a video-based SEO training and coaching program at ScienceOfSEO.com.Stephan founded the interactive agency Netconcepts in 1995 and grew it into a multinational SEO firm, with dozens of staff in each of its U.S., New Zealand and China offices. Stephan invented a pay-per-click SEO technology called GravityStream which contributed millions annually to the bottom line; indeed the technology was responsible for the majority of Netconcepts’ revenue. Netconcepts was acquired in 2010 by Covario. Covario was in turn acquired by the multi-billion dollar ad agency conglomerate Dentsu Aegis in 2014. Stephan's clients since the acquisition have included Zappos, Sony, Chanel, Quiksilver, Bed Bath & Beyond, Best Buy Canada, Fluor, CNBC, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Despegar, and IEEE, among others.Stephan has spoken at hundreds of Internet marketing events, including all the major conferences in the search and ecommerce industries (SES, SMX, PubCon, Internet Retailer, Shop.org, eTail, etc.). He’s been a contributor to Search Engine Land, the Huffington Post, Multichannel Merchant, Practical Ecommerce, DM News, and MarketingProfs, to name a few. Stephan is an avid blogger. He blogs at StephanSpencer.com, ScienceOfSEO.com, NaturalSearchBlog.com, BusinessBlogConsulting.com, and ChangesForGood.org. Stephan is on the board of Impact Network, a nonprofit that builds and operates schools in Zambia. Stephan holds an M.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Connect with and follow Stephan on Facebook (StephanSpencerSEO), Twitter (@sspencer), Google+ (+StephanSpencer), and Pinterest (stephanspencer). As the founder of Alchemist Media, Inc., a San Francisco search engine marketing company, Jessie Stricchiola began her search engine optimization career in 1997. For the past five years, she has been a guest speaker at each of the search industry's leading conferences including Incisive Media's Search Engine Strategies Conferences, Danny Sullivan's Search Marketing Expo, WebmasterWorld's PubCon, ad:Tech, WebGuild, and Shop.org. As one of the original nine founders of SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization), she served for two years on the Board of Directors for the organization. Jessie has been interviewed by numerous trade publications and media outlets,including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired Magazine, The Washington Post, SearchEngineWatch.com, CNET.com, CNBC, NPR, and The BBC. Her work on click fraud is featured in The Google Story by David Vise.

Features & Highlights

  • Three acknowledged experts in search engine optimization share guidelines and innovative techniques that will help you plan and execute a comprehensive SEO strategy. Complete with an array of effective tactics from basic to advanced, this third edition prepares digital marketers for 2016 with updates on SEO tools and new search engine optimization methods that have reshaped the SEO landscape
  • Novices will receive a thorough SEO education, while experienced SEO practitioners get an extensive reference to support ongoing engagements.
  • Comprehend SEOâ??s many intricacies and complexities
  • Comprehend SEOâ??s many intricacies and complexities
  • Explore the underlying theory and inner workings of search engines
  • Explore the underlying theory and inner workings of search engines
  • Understand the role of social media, user data, and links
  • Understand the role of social media, user data, and links
  • Discover tools to track results and measure success
  • Discover tools to track results and measure success
  • Examine the effects of Googleâ??s Panda and Penguin algorithms
  • Examine the effects of Googleâ??s Panda and Penguin algorithms
  • Consider opportunities in mobile, local, and vertical SEO
  • Consider opportunities in mobile, local, and vertical SEO
  • Build a competent SEO team with defined roles
  • Build a competent SEO team with defined roles
  • Glimpse the future of search and the SEO industry
  • Glimpse the future of search and the SEO industry
  • Visit the book website (
  • http://www.artofseobook.com
  • ) for FAQs and to post your own burning questions. Youâ??ll have access to special offers and discounts on various SEO tools and services. You can also get exclusive access to instructional videos related to the concepts in the book by sending an email to [email protected].

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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More a history and reference guide to SEO than a hands on book

This book is more a history of SEO than an advanced coding and up-to-date seo fix-it book. This book is basically for novice people that want to learn the basics of SEO, NOT for people that want to get their hands dirty with new suggestions to stop Google penalties.

Not to happy with this book since there is no table of contents or index to look-up things like Panda, Penguin, and site-wide penalties and there are almost 700 pages! Seems thrown together with a lot of filler and screen shot content that the reader really does not need and already understands. For example, there are a few chapters on hiring a SEO company to work on your site. Why have this in this book? I think most want to be "Mastering Search Engine Optimization" for themselves as it says in the title. Hiring a SEO company could be a whole new book. Basically if you hire a SEO company to work on your site, you need to do a ton of research and back ground checks on them first. Most just want to separate you from your money and milk you.
If you really want up-to-date hands-on information, than follow the SEO blogs and Google. All found on the web.
Things change monthly in the world of Google SEO. And it gets uglier everyday for the little guy, especially since NOBODY has still figured out Panda, Penguin. Many SEO experts now say Google is now rigged for ad income generation first, good content search results second. If any SEO book knew how to stop the Panda/Penguin and the other penalties, it would be a one chapter book.
17 people found this helpful
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Big enough for a doorstop, but far more useful

First, a disclosure: I was on the peer-review team that helped bring this book to you. The fact that they bothered to go through a peer review should hopefully be enough of a positive to offset any potential conflicts of interest in your mind. I receive no royalties nor is this a paid endorsement.

Now, on to the review. I've been in the search marketing industry since 1996, and there are very few books that I recommend - this is one of them. In fact, it's required reading for anyone who is building web sites or doing SEO for a living. It's truly the most comprehensive SEO book ever written, from both high-level strategy and hands-on technical/code level advice. The update takes into account some of the big changes that have been happening recently with content quality, link penalties, mobile and social media impacts. I am not aware that anyone else has codified the knowledge of experts as well as these three authors. It's nearly impossible to chase the algorithms but the advice given will help you survive and thrive through the ongoing changes in accessible and optimized (rank-able) content development.

It is large (3" thick).
It is intimidating.
But I got through it and so can you, and you'll be the smarter for it.
And, you'll find yourself referring to it again and again (or buying copies for your dev teams).
14 people found this helpful
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The content was very good. However the problem is that the book should ...

The content was very good. However the problem is that the book should have been 200 pages shorter, at least. Many parts repeat themselves multiple time throughout the book. It's clear that there were multiple authors, and they did not take the time to make sure concepts were not repeated needlessly.
13 people found this helpful
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The All-In-One SEO Book

Got this from a friend who was an early reviewer for the book - and it is simply massive. I haven't gotten through it all (maybe on my next cross-country flight, if it fits in my carry-on, seriously the book is enormous). I'm about halfway into it but it's clear just how much SEO knowledge and expertise the writers of this book have. Looks like it covers everything and everything you could possibly think of. Way more than I ever will learn as a WP designer "on the side" (I'm glad it's not what I do full time). Definitely textbook material!
10 people found this helpful
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To drive a car, you don't have to know how internal combustion works

This book should be called "A History of Search: A Guide to SEO from Then to Now". Whew! I bought this book to do SEO for my new tech start-up. I thought the large size of the book meant I was getting all the best information. I'm in my third straight day of reading. I have notes about the relevant parts. The notes fill up 3 pages. I'm on page 397. Ugh. This is for people who want to get inside the mind of Google and how they think about search. It's for someone who wants to do SEO for a living. What I wanted was an action plan of how I can best implment SEO on a daily basis for my website, since I don't have the budget right now to hire someone else to do it. I ended up buying "How to Get to the Top of Google". Hopefully I won't be only halfway through that book, 3 days later, and have no clear action plan.
9 people found this helpful
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SEO Must Have Book!

I purchased the first edition after a couple of years trying to learn SEO. Once I got my hands on the book it cleared up a lot of misconceptions that I had found through receiving poor information. The second edition became my Bible for SEO for working with clients and on my own projects.

I was so pleased to be able to read a draft copy of the third edition and all I can say is WOW! The added sections the updated information makes this book a MUST HAVE if you are serious about ranking websites.

The final editing has been done and you can now have this great book on your shelf. I got my copy already and am tearing through the material to continue to take my knowledge of SEO to the next level. Take advantage of the combined knowledge of some of the greatest minds in Search Engine Optimization, put it to use and you will not regret it.
7 people found this helpful
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Ok. Nothing new.

I had high expectations for this. And it is thorough. But it's a pain to sort out what is useful and what isn't. Maybe that's more frustrating with the kindle version. But it could have used a better edit and less jargon. Or at least a better title. It's more like an encyclopedia of SEO techniques with some marketing/sales concepts mixed in. I just started learning about SEO a few months ago. But nothing new is in here. Though its good to have everything in one place and get past the sensationalism of an SEO marketer trying to promote themselves with catchy blog titles.

And the extra stuff is annoying. There's a table in the beginning saying that internet users are wealthier. Really!? Thanks for sharing. But I don't know who doesn't use the internet these days. And I imagine they skew towards the poor side.
6 people found this helpful
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This is a great book for anyone starting to learn SEO

This is a great book for anyone starting to learn SEO. This should be your first stop. I always recommend this book to learn what SEO questions you should ask. This is a starting place and this is the best starting place you can have.
3 people found this helpful
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Quite the book of knowledge!

Recently a colleague of mine recommend I read The Art of SEO as our business is beginning to make more of an investment in SEO and SEM. I read the 2nd edition and when I searched for the book on Amazon to write a review I was pleased to see the 3rd edition was just released the other day. The 2nd edition was very well written and quite the book of knowledge for any SEO professional so I'm excited to see what tools and techniques I can garner from the 3rd edition. Surely worth every penny!
3 people found this helpful
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Five Stars

Great book if you enjoy SEO. It touches on everything and is easy to read
2 people found this helpful