SEO - Search Engine Optimization Bible

Increase your web traffic with 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 SEO guide and you can improve your web site's search rankings and start driving the targeted traffic you want to your virtual door. Learn to punch up keywords, add HTML tags for tracking, evaluate pay-per-click strategies, and much more. If you want to make SEO work for you, this is the book you need to succeed.

• Learn how to give your web site search appeal

• Target behaviors and draw the customers you really want

• Employ social media in your search engine marketing

• Optimize your site specifically for Google®, MSN®, or Yahoo!®

• Demystify the role of links and linking in search

• Understand robots, spiders, and crawlers

• Analyze your SEO efforts and see what works

• Make use of SEO tools available online

• Create a winning SEO plan

• Read interviews with over a dozen SEO experts

Jerri L. Ledford has been a freelance business technology writer for more than 15 years. Over 750 of her articles, profiles, news stories, and reports have appeared online and in print. She also develops and teaches technology training courses for such companies as IBT Financial, Hewlett Packard, and CNET. She is the author of Google Powered: Productivity with Online Tools and coauthor of Google Analytics, both from Wiley.