SEO Made Simple (Third Edition): Strategies for Dominating the World's Largest Search Engine 3rd ed. Edition

In this book, Michael covered every single area of SEO and gave me more information than I could have ever asked for. I was asked to read this book because I've been working on development and SEO for a number of websites. I've read a number of other SEO books before, or parts of them, but this one I got through in two days. I just couldn't put it down, because every single page seemed to have new information I didn't know before.At first I thought It would be just like any other book, filled with the basics that I knew and anyone can read about. "Put keywords in the title tag, header tags, and use them in the text, and that's how you optimize a page." Of course there was some of that, because it's fundamental on-page optimization. I was half expecting it to stop there, but thankfully I was very wrong.Actually, I was really hoping for something specific from this book and I got it. I wanted answers based on somebody's real-world experience and that's exactly what Michael shares. I've heard a million different things about keyword research and the optimal number of monthly searches and competition. FINALLY someone put me at ease and gave me a reasonable answer. It makes sense, and so does everything else. This book, of course, is about what to do, but more impressive is the fact that it's about HOW to do it and WHY you're doing each of those things. Even better, it talks about why you shouldn't do certain things.The best example I can give is the plan near the end of the book. Instead of saying 'don't submit all of your links at the same time", we get a solid plan with 10 steps we should do every months. Real numbers. 1 article, 25 directory submissions, 20 blog posts, etc. These are real attainable numbers that have been tested. Now I don't need to Google my brains out trying to figure out whether I can post 1 link a day or 10. It's easy to divide them if you just follow the plan.I look forward to putting all of these techniques into practice. This guy knows what he's talking about and the book's title couldn't be more accurate. It truly is SEO Made Simple.

This book was straightforward enough to understand as a beginner, yet detailed enough that I have a road map of what to do to improve my website's SEO. I started with the foundational SEO, on-page optimization tips and already have some improvement. If you're looking for a crash course into SEO, this is a great resource!

I am in the process of branching out on my own and starting my own business. I am being proactive and reading as much as possible with regard to online marketing. Despite some mixed reviews of SEO Made Simple (Second Edition), it sounded like the right book to introduce myself to SEO. I was correct in my assumption.Essentially, the book is broken down into three sections. The first section describes on-page optimization and describes in detail the necessary steps to optimize your web page. Maybe advanced users will find nothing of value here, but as a beginner, I learned a lot about meta-tags, headers, keyword placement, etc. The second section deals with off page optimization and talks about everything from article submissions, press releases, blogging, forums, directories, etc. I found it very helpful that the author lists actual sites that you can submit to and tools that can help you with all these various tasks. I am sure a lot of this information is available free online if you feel like sifting through it all, but the author does a great job organizing these off page optimization tasks to make them seem doable. Finally, he talks about the implementation of the off page optimization and a recommended schedule to follow. Again, very helpful for a beginner not knowing whether to write 1 or 20 articles per month or 2 or 50 forum posts per month.I'm sure the rules laid out in this book are not set in stone and are somewhat subjective. However, the guidelines are great for a beginner and even an intermediate needing some help. I know that when my site goes live, I will follow most of the suggestions in this book and then tweak them as I go along. A wonderful introduction to the world of SEO and a reference I will be coming back to in the future! I would not hesitate to recommend this book.

Hi Guys,I have bought several hundreds of products from Amazon including books and till date i have never ever written a single review about a product. I can tell you 1 thing from my opinion, Never have i come aross a book, so simple, and interesting on a particular subject that has compelled me to put in effort and my time to write a review. I feel Michael (The Author) like a good teacher has put in his heart and soul to expalin this subject of SEO. I have read couple of OTHER books on SEO and the authors have scared the hell out of me. I feel in this book the author has put in every effort to keep things simple and not kept any secret about SEO building activity. I have had my website built by a professional company but as far as SEO was concerend, I want not confident and sure if i could give the reigns of SEO building to a professional company simply because they would do it more mechanically rather than understanding the goal of each website owner. Well, you may ask what other goal i may have other than being #1 on Google? the answer is, my goal is exactly the same as everyone else, but an outside company if they miss the goal it would not hurt them as much as it would hurt me. With this book now I'm well educated to do things on my own, set my daily/weekly/monthly/yearly task/goal. more so even if i decide to hire a professional to do, i can speak to them in the language they would understand and work hand in hand with them to accomplish my goal.Thank You Michael!! looking forward for more updated books from you as you aim to keep things simple versus the evolving and complex internet technology.