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SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible
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Detailed, practical guide to increasing your Web traffic through better search results Wonder how some companies pop up high in search engine rankings? It’s all about search appeal. Master the strategies, techniques, and shortcuts in this detailed guide and you can improve your Web site’s search rankings and drive the targeted traffic you want to your virtual door. Learn new ways to add social media to the SEO mix, make your site mobile Web-friendly, write SEO tags for maximum exposure, and m
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Professional Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET: A Developer’s Guide to SEO (Wrox Professional Guides)
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is not only the job of the marketing department. It must be considered from a web site’s inception and throughout its lifetime by you, the web site developer. Making changes to the architecture of a web site and modifying presentation techniques can dramatically increase search engine rankings and traffic levels. Written for the ASP.NET developer or tech-savvy marketer, this unique reference provides techniques for creating and maintaining web sites optimi
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Review by J. S. Robinson for SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible
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This book should be titled “SEM Overview with some SEO sprinkled in”.
It contains misinformation, misconceptions, and myths (particularly on CMS and dynamic sites that use query strings). There about 40-50 pages in this book that are worth reading in regards to SEO, and misses out on a lot more. SEM gets a lot of pages (how to run a PPC campaign) and the rest is fluff.
What’s missing? To start: no recommendations on real SEO implementation, just that you should do things. Sure, you should write a good Title tag and Meta Description, but how long should they be? What density of keywords? Should you try to get more than one keyword in a Title tag?
Inbound links section is woefully short, 10 pages of real content, 2 pages covering directories, and the directories to submit to is a list five entries long. There are many more that count than these five.
Following the steps in this book can certainly get a site headed in the right direction, but if your market is already competitive in terms of SEO, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and it doesn’t really give a structure for understanding how much work is involved (there is a lot of it) or how long it will really take.
All in all, you can get all this and much much more from just a few web sites. If you feel you need to read it on paper, then print the sites out.
Review by Inius Mella for SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible
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The first thing you should read in this book is the author’s bio on the back cover. You’ll discover that her expertise is freelance business writing, not SEO. That will go a long way in explaining why her book just skims the surface of this complex subject and will provide you with precious little information you can actually use. This book has lots of words, but very little expertise and no depth.
Her discussion of meta tags, title tags, and meta name descriptions, for example, goes no further than explaining what a meta tag looks like. She writes, “Such a tag for the search engine optimization page might look like this:” She then shows us an example…and then moves on to other subjects. There is no in-depth discussion of how to write these critically important tags, how to use or not use keywords or keyword phrases in these tags, no discusses relating to keyword denisty or character length in meta tags or practical example of how sucessful meta tags are written. All you’ll be given is an example of what a meta tag looks like. And that’s why this book can be described in one word — shallow.
If you need a bigger clue, this “expert” in SEO has not created any website or blog for her book. Try Googling “SEO Bible” and see what you get. It won’t be her book. Sure, there’s a page ranking compliments of Amazon.com. But that wasn’t her doing. She hasn’t even created anything TO optimize. This person probably knows a lot about research and writing — but knows very little about SEO. Don’t be sucked in by the title. This book is not worth it.
Review by Dan Ball for SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible
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Pretty typical SEO book on the whole, same old advice…meta tags, content keywords, linking in and out and all that. In addition, however, this covers the relatively new concepts of using social media for SEO and promotion as well as the sometimes controversial viral marketing.
Review by Joann Attison for SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible
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I can see already that I’m going to get good use out of this book.
Although this books starts off with what would be considered a “history of the web search engine”, it goes on to explain every nuance of SEO technology.
I love this book because it does explain everything you need to understand in order to advertise your webpage. Very technical, in plain language. The only thing the book may be lacking is any glitzy business advice as to HOW to get the best results.
So really, the information in this book covers all the ground work to the process of internet advertising. A practical, comprehensive guide to how your webpage gets noticed. I’m glad to have it in my library for reference.
Review by M. Storrusten for SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible
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I will admit that my previous SEO experience consists of submitting my website URL to sites offering search engine submission services. Did I mention that this was 10 years ago? And all I got was spam from that. Anyway, I found the “SEO Bible” to be very informative. The book is well-written and easy to understand. I was able to utilize the techniques mentioned to immediately revamp my blog and three websites. There is a visible difference in my site statistics/page rankings when comparing traffic before and after reading the SEO Bible. If you’re going to have a blog or website, read this book and learn how to do it right instead of fumbling around in the dark for years like I did!
Review by Carsten Cumbrowski for Professional Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET: A Developer’s Guide to SEO (Wrox Professional Guides)
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Most websites are developed without SEO in mind. They are often developed by teams that have a very deep knowledge and understanding about programming websites and applications, databases and also general business and e-commerce. A large (if not the most) number of those teams only have little or no knowledge of SEO at all. The result is a website that might violates some of the very basic rules of creating a site that is well accessible and understandable for the human visitors as well as the non-human visitors (the search engine spiders or crawlers).
Changing a site after it is live and around for a while, when somebody realizes that search engine traffic is not the way it should be, can be very costly and in the worst cases may be even require an almost entire rewrite of the website code.
That’s why is it important that not only marketers are being educated about the benefits and principles of search engine optimization, but the people that build websites as well. Who builds websites? Web developers. This book was written exactly for this audience, but also a SEO who knows most of the information to SEO provided in the book could benefit from this book. It includes a lot of very practical .NET sample source code for ready to use tools that can help marketers in their daily routine.
Although a lot of the content is not .NET specific are other parts that are using a lot of sample source code to demonstrate possible solutions, specific for Microsoft IIS and the .NET Framework. If you are a PHP developer, check out the sister book of this one (Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP: A Developer’s Guide to SEO), which is geared towards PHP, Apache Webserver and MySQL web developers.
Review by C. Nirmal for Professional Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET: A Developer’s Guide to SEO (Wrox Professional Guides)
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1) Definitive guide with Step by Step instructions.
2) All the latest topics covered well.
3) Covers basics of SEO as well as Advanced Tutorials to implementing SEO in ASP.net
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1) Too many references and Links to websites. (its can be good as well as bad). Many people may not like reading the book and having to look at the websites referenced at the same time.
Review by Luis Abreu for Professional Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET: A Developer’s Guide to SEO (Wrox Professional Guides)
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Ok, so this is the second book I’ve got from Wrox for reviewing (and yes, I did enjoy it much more than the first). SEO is one of those things that most developers end up forgetting when building ASP.NET pages Unfortunately, that might cost you a lot. This books presents several principles and ideas that will help you improve your site’s indexing. The structure is clean and the content is good.
Now, the bad things: I didn’t really liked the C# code style presented throughout the book and I think that some of the ideas were “duplicated” in several chapters. The text gives lots of emphasis on Google (which one can understand, since it rules the search engine market). I’m not against it but I’d like to see more about the other search engines too. Overall, I’m going to give it a 7.5/10.
Review by Joseph A. Skarulis for Professional Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET: A Developer’s Guide to SEO (Wrox Professional Guides)
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this book is great. it was easy to understand and read. it’s practical, teh techniques are described and explained in ways which can be adopted easily.
I am very glad I read it while in the design phase rather than after the site would have been implemented without any Search Engine Optimization.
Review by Grettir Strong for Professional Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET: A Developer’s Guide to SEO (Wrox Professional Guides)
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Every professional web developer at some point of time has to confront the ruthless reality – SEO. There are variety of reasons of why it is happening but the most common one is that customers don’t just need greatly functional websites; they need greatly findable (“spiderable” is industry term) websites along with great functionality.
So whoever hoped to stick to cozy world of coding are pushed out from zone of comfort. SEO can be interesting, even exciting sometimes, but never cozy. It is like Wild West of the olden days with sheriffs (Google, Bing etc), bandits (spammers, phishers etc) and constant gold rush to get your site at the very top of the very first search results page.
To navigate well and, most importantly, satisfy your customers with sensible SEO results a web developer have to peruse astronomical amount of information, chaotically scattered across endless cyberspace. This book is a good, if not perfect, starting point to begin SEO experience.
Although sample code is in C#, it is simple enough to be understood by VB.NET developers. There is a good coverage on URL Rewriters, topic is not widely known but relatively easy to manage for anybody who worked a little bit with Regular Expressions. Chapter on Black Hat SEO is also quite useful, especially for those who involved in development of blogs. Pretty much all major parameters for proper SEO can be found in the books but they could be structured better – I had to develop my own checklist. Importance of 301 Redirection is stressed out quite well.
Something can be highlighted better, namely issues related to shared hosting. It is a topic on its own and there are some problems with that that can not be solved easily.
By the way authors are quite helpful and willing to assist if something is not entirely transparent with the code supplied with the book. Code can be downloaded from WROX website; it is OK for most part, with occasional not too severe flaws.
SEO can be pretty scary at the very beginning. That should be seen in positive light though. It may sound ridiculous but SEOing does improve mental resilience in dealing with vast quantities of loosely related data. Having this book in your arsenal can make that trait even better.