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 A really excellent little book February 20, 2008
Mr. P. Stewkesbury (Kent, UK)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book is packed full with tips on how to improve your website's success at being found by Google.
It's worth reading it before you register your domain and build your site, because there are useful tips regarding domain names, page titles, images, content, and even where your host servers are in the world.
I have read it cover-to-cover and found it to be really useful. I can now proceed to build a website in the best way to ensure that it does well on Google. The author does take the time to mention throughout the book that Google is not the only search engine, and that it is definitely worth putting some effort into succeeding with those alternatives too.
I am entirely confident that this little book will become well-thumbed. It is not written only for those folk building new websites. You need to keep working on your site to ensure continued search success and I'm sure that I'll keep dipping back into this book and following the tips to improve my site's rating.
It is important to note that, at the time of writing, this book is newly published, and therefore that all of the tips are current and valid to the way that Google's algorithms work right now. Also, that all of the wider references are contemporary and relevant. And, of course, it is important to note that the author has 'got the T-shirt', he has built (and sold) a successful web-based business, and worked on/with many others.
The book is well written in a humorous style which makes what might otherwise be a bit of a dry techie subject very understandable and easy to read.
Great book - all the basics of good web optimisation are in here July 24, 2008
Ms. Clare Patterson (Belfast)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was coming at search engine optimisation from an entirely new perspective. I found this book incredibly easy to read with highlighted areas which helps you find the most important things to remember. This gave me a brilliant grounding on where to start with search engine optimisation. It gives a clear step by step guide as to how to improve your rankings. Also I had one question that I needed an answer to and I emailed Jon thinking that it would probably take ages for someone to come back - he emailed me back in 2 mins with really good advice - superb!!
Great little book that is not a drag to wade through September 10, 2008
D. Edwards (Dumfries)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
At last! A book that's good for me, but is easy to read and concise and gives me loads of tips every few pages that I immediately bookmark and want to implement. I'm getting teally tired of 'How-to' books that make you wade through several hundred pages of padding: this book is the antidote.
Simple and effective September 15, 2008
David L (London)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a really easy book to use.
Yes, there are more complex books that go into SEO in greater depth than this but the fact is that if you have a small or medium size business employing less than 10 people, then the really advanced techniques aren't really for you anyway and are really not worth worrying about because you wont have time to implement them, even if you knwo about them.
For people like you, this book is probably all you will need -and it is all very clearly explained in non tecnhical jargon.
I even managed to read it on hols - yes, that's sad I know! But it lends itself to that kind of easy reading because it is explained so clearly in short bite size chunks that take all of about 10 minutes to read and digest.
OK, I found the odd thing listed as free (which now isnt) - and I see another reviewer noticed that too, but given the fast pace of chnage in this area, that cannot really be a serious criticism
small but very intense January 25, 2008
M Jennings "Mr. Mark Jennings" (Derby, UK)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Was a bit put out when the book arrived because it's not very big. But after skimming through about half of it and then returning to the beginning, in fairness it's simply concise. No waffle, just one technique after another. Really good stuff. Have tried a few of the keyword analysis tools already and I must say I didn't know there was so much available out there. Searched for the author on Google and he is there repeatedly on page one, just as he maintains in the book. I hope I can do the same with my websites.
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