30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A really excellent little book, 20 Feb 2008
This review is from: Get into Bed with Google: Top Ranking Search Optimisation Techniques (Paperback)
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.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Short, to the point and easy to understand, 13 Mar 2008
This review is from: Get into Bed with Google: Top Ranking Search Optimisation Techniques (Paperback)
This book helps to demystify SEO to a degree. You don't have to be a programmer to understand it. It doesn't get bogged down in technicality. It just gives 52 easy to follow tips on how to make the best on the search engines. It is very quick to read but that doesn't detract on the thoroughness. If you want an in depth book on SEO, this isn't it. But if you want to grasp what it is all about and gain some valuable tips quickly, then this book is fantastic.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fine introduction, 18 April 2011
This review is from: Get into Bed with Google: Top Ranking Search Optimisation Techniques (Paperback)
Although nothing much is covered in any depth it does give many useful hints in optimising your web site if you have one or are setting one up, if not it is not much use. All of the information is available elsewhere but this is one of the few places where I have seen everything in one place. It will be more use to someone setting up a web site than someone with an established site as it is easier to set it up correctly to maximise hits and position in the listings than to modify the existing site.
Although the title emphasises Google the info contained will work with almost all search engines.
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