Part I: Understanding SEO
Chapter 1: Search Engine Basics
- What Is a Search Engine?
- Anatomy of a Search Engine.
- Query interface
- Crawlers, spiders, and robots
- Databases
- Search algorithms
- Retrieval and ranking
- Characteristics of Search
- Classifications of Search Engines
- Primary search engines
- Secondary search engines
- Targeted search engines
- Putting Search Engines to Work for You
- Manipulating Search Engines
Chapter 2:
- Creating an SEO Plan
- Understanding Why You Need SEO
- Setting SEO Goals
- Creating Your SEO Plan
- Prioritizing pages
- Site assessment
- Finishing the plan
- Follow-up.
- Understanding Organic SEO
- Achieving Organic SEO
- Web-site content
- Google Analytics
- Internal and external links
- User experience
- Site interactivity
Part II: SEO Strategy
- Building Your Site for SEO .
- Before You Build Your Site
- Know your target
- Page elements
- Understanding Web-Site Optimization
- Does hosting matter?
- Domain-naming tips
- Understanding usability
- Components of an SEO-Friendly Page
- Understanding entry and exit pages
- Using powerful titles
- Creating great content
- Maximizing graphics
- Problem Pages and Work-Arounds
- Painful portals
- Fussy frames
- Cranky cookies
- Programming Languages and SEO
- JavaScript
- Flash
- Dynamic ASP
- PHP .
- Other Design Concerns
- Domain cloaking
- Duplicate content
- Hidden pages
- After Your Site Is Built
- Beware of content thieves
- Dealing with updates and site changes
Chapter 4: Keywords and Your Web Site .
- The Importance of Keywords
- Understanding Heuristics
- Using Anchor Text
- Picking the Right Keywords
- What’s the Right Keyword Density?
- Taking Advantage of Organic Keywords
- Avoid Keyword Stuffing
- More About Keyword Optimization
Chapter 5: Pay-per-Click and SEO
- How Pay-per-Click Works .
- Determining visitor value
- Putting pay-per-click to work
- Pay-per-Click Categories
- Keyword pay-per-click programs
- Product pay-per-click programs
- Service pay-per-click programs
- Understanding How PPC Affects SEO
- Keyword Competitive Research
- Keyword suggestion tools
- Choosing Effective Keywords
- Creating your first keyword list
- Forbidden search terms and poison words
- Forecasting search volumes
- Finalizing your keyword list
- Writing Ad Descriptions
- Monitoring and Analyzing Results
Chapter 6: Maximizing Pay-per-Click Strategies .
- Understanding Keyword Placement
- Alt and Other Tags and Attributes
- Title tags
- Meta description tags
- Anchor text
- Header tag content
- Body text
- Alt tags
- URLS and File Names
Chapter 7: Increasing Keyword Success . . .
- Writing Keyword Advertisement Text
- Create Great Landing Pages .
- Understanding and Using A/B Testing
- Avoiding Keyword Stuffing
Chapter 8: Understanding and Using Behavioral Targeting . .
- What Is Behavioral Targeting?
- Taking Advantage of Behavioral Targeting
- Additional Behavioral Targeting Tips
Chapter 9:Managing Keyword and PPC Campaigns . . .
- Keyword Budgeting
- Understanding Bid Management
- Manual bid management
- Automated bid management
- Tracking Keywords and Conversions
- Reducing Pay-per-Click Costs
- Managing PPC campaigns
- Negative keywords .
- Improving Click-Through Rates
- The ROI of PPC
Chapter 10: Keyword Tools and Services . .
- Google AdWords
- Campaign management
- Reports
- Analytics
- My Account
- Print ads
- Yahoo! Search Marketing
- Dashboard
- Campaigns
- Reports
- Administration
- Microsoft adCenter
- Campaign
- Accounts & Billing
- Research
- Reports
Chapter 11: Tagging Your Web Site . .
- What’s So Important About Site Tagging?
- How Does Site Tagging Work?
- Additional HTML Tags
- No-follow
- Strong and emphasis
- No-frames
- Table summary tag
- Acronym and abbreviation tags
- Virtual includes
- Using Redirect Pages
Chapter 12: The Content Piece of the Puzzle
- How Does Web-Site Content Affect SEO?
- Elements of Competitive Content
- To Use or Not? Duplicate Content
- Stay Away from Search Engine Spam
- Doorway pages
- Hidden and tiny text
- SEO over submission
- Page jacking
- Bait and switch
- Cloaking
- Hidden links
- Considerations for Multi-Lingual Sites
- Content Management Systems
- When should you use CMS?
- Choosing the right CMS
- How CMS affects SEO
- Understand and Use Viral Content
Chapter 13: Understanding the Role of Links and Linking . . .
- How Links Affect SEO
- How Links and Linking Work
- Snagging inbound links
- Creating outbound links
- Taking advantage of cross-linking
- The skinny on link farms
- The Basics of Link Building
- Using Internal Links
- Judging the Effectiveness of Your Links
- Part III: Optimizing Search Strategies
Chapter 14: Adding Your Site to Directories . . .
- What Are Directories?
- Submitting to directories
- Major online directories
- Paid vs. free directories
- Geo-Targeting SEO Strategies
- Using Submission Tools
Chapter 15: Pay-for-Inclusion Services .
- When to Use Pay-for-Inclusion Services
- Understanding the Business Model
- Managing Paid Services
- Hiring the Right Professionals
- Contract Considerations
- When the Relationship Isn’t Working
Chapter 16: Robots, Spiders, and Crawlers. . .
- What Are Robots, Spiders, and Crawlers?
- What’s the Robot Exclusion Standard?
- Robots Meta Tag
- Inclusion with XML Site Mapping
- Creating your own XML site map
- Submitting your site map
Chapter 17: The Truth About SEO Spam
- What Constitutes SEO Spam?
- Why Is SEO Spam a Bad Idea?
- Avoiding SEO Spam
Chapter 18: Adding Social-Media Optimization . . .
- What Is Social-Media Optimization?
- What’s different about social-media optimization?
- The Value of Social Media
- Social-Media Strategies
- Measuring Social-Media Optimization
Chapter 19: Automated Optimization
- Should You Automate?
- Automation Tools
Part IV: Maintaining SEO
Chapter 20: SEO Beyond The Launch
Chapter 20: SEO Beyond The Launch
- It’s Not Over
- Using Content Management Systems
- SEO Problems and Solutions
- You’ve been banned!
- Content scraping
- Click fraud
Chapter 21:Analyzing Success
- Analyzing SEO Successes
- Managing SEO expectations
- Find yourself
- Analyzing web stats
- Competitive Analysis
- Conversion Analysis
- Analyzing Server Logs
- Optimization for Major Search Engines . . .
- Optimization for Google
- Understanding Google Page Rank
- Calculate the value of each page
- Algorithm of Page Rank
- Optimization for MSN
- Optimization for Yahoo!
- The Yahoo! Search Crawler
SEO Software, Tools, and Resources
- Major Search Engines and Directories
- Secondary Search Engines
- Meta Search Engines
- Keyword Tools
- Content Resources
- RSS Feeds and Applications
- RSS Feeds optimization
- XML Feed Creation
- XML Feeds optimization
- Search Engine Marketing Resources and Articles
- Registration Services and Programs
- Link Resources and Software
- Pay-per-Click..
- Social-Media Tools
- SEO Plan ..
- SEO Checklist .
- Current State
- Keyword Research
- Web-Site Design
- Write Clean Code
- Make Use of Tags and Attributes
- SEO-Approved Content
- Manual Submissions
- Linking Strategies
- Conversions
- Keyword Worksheet
- PPC Keyword Worksheet
- Keyword Checklist
- Keyword Performances Worksheet
- A/B Testing Worksheet
- PPC Competition Worksheet
- Link-Tracking Worksheet
- Rank-Tracking Worksheet