SEO Help: 20 new steps to get your website to Google's #1 page 3rd Edition
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A completely revised and updated edition of the Amazon SEO best-seller on practical SEO practices and techniques that help you rank your website on Google’s first search engine results page (SERPs).
Completely new chapters that now include how to deal with Google’s search query intent approach to delivering search results. It covers semantic search SEO practices and how to best make use of Google’s Knowledge Graph to promote your website. It addresses the latest Google search algorithm changes and guides you on how to deal with them. It tackles the issue of content creation and content marketing and explains how to best solve it.
SEO Help is a totally practical, step-by-step guide which in 20, new and easy-to-implement steps gives you the kind of cutting-edge, practical SEO advice you need to optimize your website, increase your search rankings and amplify your digital presence across the many different screens through which the web is accessed.
This third, totally re-written edition uses zero jargon, requires no technical knowledge and assumes that your time is precious and you need to know what to do more than finding out the SEO theory behind why you have to do it.
- Over 80% entirely new material and practical steps and advice.
- Google’s semantic search is covered helping you prepare for any future SEO changes.
- Practical suggestions on how to fully integrate social media in your SEO.
- Includes action plans at the end of each chapter to help you get moving fast.
- Easy to get through, dip into it as you will or follow each step sequentially.
David Amerland is a best-selling SEO and social media author and speaker. He guides global corporations on the formulation of SEO best practice and social media crisis management techniques. In SEO Help he has created a very accessible, SEO plan that any new webmaster can implement, straight from the very first chapter. The book gives you everything you need to help your website rank fast in Google, attract targeted customers, and continue to grow organically, increasing your web presence through the application of very accessible, easy-to-implement, steps.
What usually stops you from succeeding in the online world is the fact that by the time you learn the valuable lessons you need to apply you have also ran out of time, energy and money.
SEO Help dispenses with theory and complicated explanations. Its aim is to save you money you would spend in outsourcing SEO and help you get your website ranked fast. Its 20-step method is practical and straightforward, and it is suitable for a wide variety of websites and every type of online business. It is designed to help you get going quickly and see results within weeks rather than months.
David Amerland
David Amerland is the author of the best-selling 'SEO Help: 20 steps to get your website to Google's #1 page". His books on social media marketing, SEO and business success have guided many companies setting up online promotional strategies. When he does not write he works with companies and individuals across the globe helping them increase the impact of their digital footprint.
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SEO Help - David Amerland
SEO Help: 20 new search engine optimization steps to get your website to Google’s #1 page
by
David Amerland
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2013. David Amerland
ISBN: 978-1-84481-982-9
The right of David Amerland to be identified as copyright holder of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. This 1st eBook edition published 2013.
SEO Help: 20 new steps to get your website to Google’s #1 page.
Published by New Line Publishing, Manchester, United Kingdom.
This Book can be purchased in electronic format at: all major online eBook retailers including Amazon and the Sony store.
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This one is for Jimmy, because he has come a long way in a very short time.
Table of Contents
It’s still all about being found!
The basics
User GuideNew Stuff!
Step #1: A Google Account
Step #2: Search Queries
Step #3: Creating Content
Step #4: Your Google+ Profile
Step #5: Get your Website Indexed Fast
Step #6: Titles and Snippets
Step #7: Landing Pages
Step #8: Inbound Linking Strategy
Step #9: Outbound Linking Strategy
Step #10: Rank for Quality
Step #11: Rank in Google’s Image Search
Step #12: Create the Perfect Press Release
Step #13: How to Use your Blog for SEO
Step #14: Increase your Trust Factor
Step #15: SEO Tools
Step #16: Author Rank
Step #17: Facebook Marketing
Step #18: The Marketing Power of Twitter
Step #19: Other sites you should be using
Step #20: Targetting the Interest Graph
20 Frequently Asked SEO Questions
Famous Last Words
Talk to me
Other Books by the Author
It’s still all about being found!
The very first edition of this book came out in 2010 and a lot has changed in search in that time. SEO has gone from an acronym which constantly needs to be explained to a term which underpins many of the activities of every webmaster.
In this time search itself has also changed. It has become, for a start, the de facto means through which we navigate the web. It has also matured and fragmented. Google still dominates the web as far as search is concerned but search has splintered across video and mobile to name but just two massive search verticals.
YouTube is the second most popular search engine on the web. Google has managed to become the dominant player in mobile search and search results delivered across mobile devices.
Search, these days, is about being found not just in traditional, desktop based searches but also being found on the go through mobile devices and tablets, being found in apps when those who use them least expect to find you and being found on search, in search queries that still reflect your business but you may not have thought of.
In few other marketing activities does the phrase the more things change, the more they remain the same
hold as much meaning as it does in search.
In the intervening years since SEO Help v1.0 came out to so much acclaim search has gone from an activity that entered a business’ marketing toolkit as an afterthought to being one that is directly responsible for a business’ success. In plain speak Search is Marketing. If your business cannot be found on the web it cannot do business.
It really has become that simple.
This also begs the question on what you need to do. The original SEO Help had a simple premise: it offered you 20 search engine optimization steps. It did not explain why you had to take them, nor how they impacted on search engine technology to help your website rise in rankings. I took that to be one of those things that are nice to know but not necessary. I still do. Search however has fragmented to such an extent that I could easily give you 40 – 60 maybe even 100 steps to take, this time round and perhaps not even cover it adequately.
I haven’t.
I have still kept this book to 20 steps, though these now are new steps, almost entirely.
I have taken into account the fact that technical SEO has receded ever deeper into the website mechanics and non-technical SEO has risen a lot more in importance. I have factored in the introduction of Semantic Search that is going to play a key role in the way search across the web evolves. And I have fully taken into account the fact that search now is all about intercept marketing. It’s not just about getting your website to rank higher for specific search terms anymore because the idea that you could simply outrank your competitors and get more business has, itself undergone a fundamental change.
Being first on the first page of Google makes less sense than ever because the first page of Google
has fragmented and mutated to the point that it is virtually different for every person using the search engine, looking for something, through their device.
So, while being first on the first page of Google
is still important, the idea of ‘first’ or rather the value of it has changed almost as radically as the first page of Google itself. What counts today is conversions from online visitors to customers and being found at just the right moment when those looking for your products or services are most highly committed to taking action.
With these two thoughts in mind I have put together 20 fresh steps. I have not explained the why but I have, as always, detailed the what.
Follow them and you will see a couple of things happening: first your website ranking will improve. That’s a given. But second, and more important in terms of what I am trying to achieve, you will increase the visitor numbers to your website. These will be visitors actively looking to find you who will be finding you through unexpected avenues.
These visitors, the ones who really want to know what your online business does, are also the ones most likely to want to do business with you. It is these you need the most and it is these that I will help you find.
In the preface to the first edition of this book I wrote, somewhat naively perhaps, that SEO may go away. I was not entirely wrong. SEO as an activity that aims to game Google search has, largely gone away. Websites of low quality that appeared on the search results without deserving to be there have also gone away. In many ways the SEO mentality of 2010 is well and truly gone. But SEO defined as search engine optimization that helps your website get indexed better, faster and be found is never truly going to go away.
The reason for this lies in the underlying complexities of search technology and the point where it meets website building technology and even browser technology.
These are complexities that do not concern you however. What you need to know is that in the brave new world of semantic search and mobile marketing you have a practical 20-step guide that will help your business do more business, find more customers and make more money.
Use it. Win.
David
Manchester, 2013.
The basics
In order to best help you with