The Art of SEO

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 7 mars 2012 - 716 pages

Four acknowledged experts in search engine optimization share guidelines and innovative techniques that will help you plan and execute a comprehensive SEO strategy. This second edition brings you up to date on recent changes in search engine behavior—such as new ranking methods involving user engagement and social media—with an array of effective tactics, from basic to advanced.

  • Comprehend SEO’s many intricacies and complexities
  • Explore the underlying theory and inner workings of search engines
  • Understand the role of social media, user data, and links
  • Discover tools to track results and measure success
  • Recognize how changes to your site can confuse search engines
  • Learn to build a competent SEO team with defined roles
  • Glimpse the future of search and the SEO industry

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"SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses. Written by some of the top SEO practitioners out there, this book can teach you what you need to know for your online business."
—Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, Inc., author of New York Times bestseller Delivering Happiness

 

Table des matières

Reflecting Consciousness and Connecting Commerce
1
Chapter 2 Search Engine Basics
25
Chapter 3 Determining Your SEO Objectives and Defining Your Sites Audience
81
Chapter 4 First Stages of SEO
99
Chapter 5 Keyword Research
137
Chapter 6 Developing an SEOFriendly Website
181
Chapter 7 Creating LinkWorthy Content and Link Marketing
287
Chapter 8 How Social Media and User Data Play a Role in Search Results and Rankings
345
Chapter 10 Tracking Results and Measuring Success
447
Chapter 11 Domain Changes PostSEO Redesigns and Troubleshooting
521
Chapter 12 SEO Research and Study
555
Chapter 13 Build an InHouse SEO Team Outsource It or Both?
587
The Future of SEO
621
Glossary
643
Index
659
Droits d'auteur

Chapter 9 Optimizing for Vertical Search
395

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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 the author of Google Power Search (O'Reilly, 2011). He is the founder of Netconcepts, a leading SEO firm that was acquired in January 2010 by search marketing agency Covario. He is the inventor of the automated pay-for-performance SEO technology platform GravityStream, now re-branded as Covario's Organic Search Optimizer. Stephan is a regular contributor to Search Engine Land, Multichannel Merchant, Practical Ecommerce, and MarketingProfs, among others. Stephan is a sought-after conference presenter who's spoken on SEO at hundreds of events across the globe for organizations such as the AMA, DMA, Shop.org, Internet Retailer, SMX, SES, PubCon, O’Reilly/TechWeb, Blog World Expo, Affiliate Summit, Elite Retreat, IIMA, ECMOD, IQPC and IIR. Stephan is also an avid blogger. He blogs at StephanSpencer.com, NaturalSearchBlog.com, BusinessBlogConsulting.com, ChangesForGood.org, and GoogleISuggest.blogspot.com. He is currently producing a video-based SEO training and coaching program at ScienceofSEO.com.

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.

Rand Fishkin is CEO and co-founder of Moz, a Seattle-based startup focused on building software for marketers.

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