SEO For Dummies

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John Wiley & Sons, Oct 26, 2015 - Computers - 456 pages
Your fully updated guide to search engine optimization

Packed with tips, tricks, and secrets, SEO For Dummies shows you how to create and maintain a website that ranks at the top of search engines and drives high-volume traffic. Using plain-English explanations and easy-to-follow instructions, this friendly guide helps you come to grips with search engine basics—what they are, which ones are important, and how to get started—and build a search-engine-friendly site.

SEO is an integral part of getting a site to rank in the various search engines in order to attract potential customers. In the new edition of this bestselling guide to search engine optimization, you'll learn the ins and outs and best practices of successful SEO in order to make your website content more search-engine friendly so that it ranks higher among searches and draws the masses. Covering the latest information on pay-per-click options, using social media to boost your profile, and managing your platform and reputation to positively impact your search engine rankings, this hands-on guide is the fun and friendly place to start learning how to move your site to the top of the rankings.

  • Develop a search strategy and use local search capabilities
  • Build sites that increase your search visibility
  • Analyze results with updated tracking tools
  • Maximize content marketing strategies

If you're asking yourself the essential question of "how do I get people to visit my site," you've come to the right place!

 

Contents

Introduction 1
3
Getting Started with SEO
8
Search Results Deconstructed
23
Your OneHour Search EngineFriendly
31
Surveying the Search Engine Landscape 7 Chapter 2 Search Results Deconstructed 23 Chapter 3 Your OneHour Search EngineFriendly Web Site Ma...
49
Making Your Site Useful and Visible
67
Making Your Site Useful and Visible 67 Part II Building Search EngineFriendly Sites
83
Creating Pages That Search Engines Love
107
Adding Your Site to the Indexes
232
Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines 231 Chapter 14 Submitting to the Directories 247 Chapter 15 Product Search Remember the Shopping D...
257
Pricewatch 266 Exploring More Shopping Services
267
After Youve Submitted Your Site
283
After Youve Submitted Your Site 283
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Using Link Popularity to Boost Your Position 285 Chapter 17 Finding Sites to Link to Yours
309
Even More Great Places to Get Links
331
Social Networking Driven by Drivel
343

Using Structured Data Markup
135
Avoiding Things That Search Engines Hate
143
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
163
Bulking Up Your Site Competing with Content
179
Picking Powerful Keywords 85 Chapter 7 Creating Pages That Search Engines Love 107 Chapter 8 Using Structured Data Markup 135 Chapter 9 Av...
203
Adding Your Site to the Indexes
229
Social Networking Driven by Drivel 343 Chapter 20 Video Putting Your Best Face Forward 351 Chapter 21 When Google Bites Back A Guide to Ca...
357
The Part of Tens
377
The Part of Tens
380
TenPlus Myths and Mistakes 379 Chapter 23 TenPlus Ways to Stay Updated 387 Chapter 24 TenPlus Useful Things to Know 393 Index
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About the author (2015)

Peter Kent is an e-commerce consultant who specializes in SEO. Over the last decade he has advised hundreds of companies, large and small, about search engine optimization. He has worked online since 1984, written about the Internet since 1993, and authored over 50 books.

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