Please recommend good book/resource to learn SEO.

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by poccake, Apr 21, 2008.

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    Can you recommend me the book that you have use to learn seo, I don't want some site with little tips about seo, I want to learn seo seriously and want to know some good book/ebook that have quality content and atleast 500 pages.Thanks
     
    poccake, Apr 21, 2008 IP
  2. BioPod

    BioPod Peon

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    You can try at this website.

    I've heard many good things about it.
     
    BioPod, Apr 21, 2008 IP
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    My Dear Brothers and Sisters

    If you want to learn seo and have an ebook then i will recommend you one book which is not the best but you can learn so many techniques from it. Let me explain you that i have purchased 350 seo and internet marketing related books but don't do like this unless you have too much of time and money.

    Merely read the book it is having more than 500 pages which i will mail you and you will feel pleasure for that. Its free for you dear. PM me for further deatials

    Cool Mate and Enjoy your Day

    Dashanan Sharma
     
    choicefreedom2000, Apr 21, 2008 IP
  4. tsukara

    tsukara Banned

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    That's sounds interesting choicefreedom. Can I have a copy of that also.
     
    tsukara, Apr 21, 2008 IP
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    I would recommend Aaron Walls SEO Book (google it as I can't post links yet, argh)

    Also visit SEOmoz.org


    Blogs to read:
    searchengineland.com (although its a little bit more advanced)
    searchenginewatch.com
    seomoz.org/blog
    seo-chicks.com (ehm ok I got to put that in there)

    Good luck!
     
    Lisadit, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    I think experience is the best teacher,
    Make a experiment on your own site, will get understand SEO in little time rather than reading those books,
    Because there so many hard SEO terms very hard to understand while reading books, and you left the reading as well.
    If you need any help DP is always open.
     
    aba-jobs, Apr 22, 2008 IP
  7. manish.chauhan

    manish.chauhan Well-Known Member

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    SEO is the field where the updation made too frequently..that you can't get from any book..So I think forums and blogs are best books to learn SEO..as it updates with the techniques changes...:)
     
    manish.chauhan, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    I thnk http://www.seobook.com/ is a nice book to start with
     
    Loy Maben, Apr 22, 2008 IP
  9. Dan Schulz

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    Sorry, but I need to do this (most of the next line and the image that follows are for everyone else on the forum).

    STOP BEATING THE "BEST SEO BOOK" DEAD HORSE ALREADY!!!
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    Now that I probably have you mad enough at me to report this post, let's focus that anger on something constructive, shall we?

    First off, SEO isn't rocket science. Most of it is actually from disciplines such as accessibility, information architecture, semantic HTML markup, usability, and Web copywriting. Meaning you're going to want to focus on books such as Don't Make Me Think, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third Edition by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld, "Web Copy That Sells" by Maria Veloso (check your used book store - I prefer Best Bargain Books myself) and SitePoint's upcoming Ultimate HTML Reference. I learned about Web accessibility online, so I really can't recommend a book that sits down and teaches it in plain conversational langauge - if you or anyone else happens to know of one, please post it here!

    Second, most of what SEO IS can be summed up with SitePoint's own Search Engine Optimization FAQ and Chris Beasley's Comprehensive SEO Guide (Chris's site will also tell you how you can market and promote your site to make a boatload of money - and I don't mean a dingy either; I mean a Carnival cruise liner).

    Third, the rest will be obscure information, like optimizing a particular content management system for the search engines (my own "WordPress SEO Checklist" post linked in my signature is one such example). Finally, real search engine optimization evolves at such a slow pace that the few real changes (such as subdomains no longer being treated as separate sites by the search engines) are few and far between - and hit like a five mile wide asteroid in the Yucatan when they do happen. What changes often is the wide array of dirty tricks that black-hat SEOs use to propel their sites to the top of the listings before the search engines ban them for it and change their algorithms to prevent the tricks from being used again (such as multiple Web sites using George Bush as anchor text to page about "miserable failure"), and are thus best avoided.

    If you really want to spend your money learning SEO though, I suggest you wait five weeks or so for SitePoint to reprint the Search Engine Marketing Kit, which just sold out due to extremely high demand.
     
    Dan Schulz, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    Hafsoh Banned

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    Dan Schulz is knowledgable but is too square.
     
    andymayo, Apr 22, 2008 IP