SEO Warrior: Essential Techniques for Increasing Web Visibility

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", Nov 9, 2009 - Computers - 496 pages

How can you make it easier for people to find your website? And how can you convert casual visitors into active users? SEO Warrior shows you how it's done through a collection of tried and true techniques, hacks, and best practices. Learn the nuts and bolts of search engine optimization (SEO) theory, the importance of keyword strategy, and how to avoid and remedy search engine traps.

You'll also learn about search engine marketing (SEM) practices, such as Google AdWords, and how you can use social networking to increase your visibility. Ideal for web developers, savvy marketers, webmasters, and anyone else interested in SEO, this book serves not only as an SEO tutorial, but also as a reference for implementing effective SEO techniques.

  • Create compelling sites with SEO that can stand the test of time
  • Optimize your site for Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft's Bing, as well as search engines used in different parts of the world
  • Conduct keyword research to find the best terms to reach your audience--and the related terms they'll respond to
  • Learn what makes search engines tick by utilizing custom scripts
  • Analyze your site to see how it measures up to the competition

 

Contents

Chapter 1 The Big Picture
1
Chapter 2 Search Engine Primer
19
Chapter 3 Website Essentials
35
Chapter 4 Internal Ranking Factors
63
Chapter 5 External Ranking Factors
85
Chapter 6 Web Stats Monitoring
101
Chapter 7 Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics
123
Chapter 8 Search Engine Traps
147
Chapter 13 Competitor Research and Analysis
263
Chapter 14 Content Considerations
287
Chapter 15 Social Networking Phenomenon
305
Chapter 16 Search Engine Marketing
329
Chapter 17 Search Engine Spam
361
Chapter 18 Industry Buzz
375
Appendix A Script Listings
383
Appendix B Ping Servers
447

Chapter 9 Robots Exclusion Protocol
171
Chapter 10 Sitemaps
193
Chapter 11 Keyword Research
213
Chapter 12 Link Building
241
Appendix C Programming Environment
451
Index
453
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