The third edition of the bestselling guide to do-it-yourself SEO Getting seen on the first page of search engine result pages is crucial for businesses and online marketers. Search engine optimization helps improve Web site rankings, and it is often complex and confusing.

Foreword. Introduction. Part I Foundation. Chapter 1 Clarify Your Goals. What Is SEO? Do I Need to Perform SEO for My Website? What Are the Overall Goals of My Business? What Function Does My Website Serve? How Is My Website Connecting with the Goals of My Business? Who Do I Want to Visit My Website? What Do I Want Visitors to Do on My Website? Which Pages Do I Most Want My Website Visitors to See? How Will I Measure the Success of This SEO Campaign? Chapter 2 Customize Your Approach. It s Your SEO Plan. Business-to-Business. Business-to-Consumer. Large Organization. Small Organization. Really Small Organization. Brick-and-Mortar. Blog. Web Designer. Nonprofit. Chapter 3 Eternal Truths of SEO. Robots Deliver. Search Results Are Blended. Algorithms Change. Humans Are Smart Computers Aren't. Text Matters. It's Not Just about Rank. Search Engines Don t Like Tricks. SEO Is Not Brain Surgery. Chapter 4 How the Search Engines Work Right Now. In Pursuit of Right Now. Google Basics. Bing Basics. Yahoo! Basics. Organic Web Search Ranking Factors. Blended Search Ranking Factors. Paid Placement. Social and Mobile Web. SEO Trend Spotting. Part II Strategy. Chapter 5 Get Your Team on Board. The Challenge of SEO Team Building. Marketing, Sales, and Public Relations. IT, Webmasters, and Programmers. Graphic Designers. Writers and Editors. Executives and Product Managers. Chapter 6 Your One-Month Prep: Keywords, Priorities, and Goals. Your SEO Idea Bank. Week 1: Keywords. Week 2: Baseline Assessment. Week 3: Competition. Week 4: Analytics and Goals. Part III Your SEO Plan. Chapter 7 Month One: Kick It into Gear. Week 1: Basic Site Optimization. Week 2: Site Structure Improvements. Week 3: Link Building. Week 4: Building Content for Links and Engagement. Chapter 8 Month Two: Establish the Habit. Week 5: Social Media Marketing. Week 6: Set Up Your Paid Search Account. Week 7: Selling Through Search. Week 8: Local Search. Chapter 9 Month Three: It s a Way of Life. Week 9: Special Opportunities: Video, Mobile, and More. Week 10: Research and Development. Week 11: What s Your Problem? Week 12: SEO Status Report. Moving On: Forging Your Own SEO Path. Chapter 10 Extra Credit and Guilt-Free Slacking. The Slacking Spectrum. The Extra Credit Continuum. Extra Credit Tasks. Appendix. Glossary. Index.

The Ultimate Do-It-Yourself Guide to SEO! A Step-by-Step Guide More timely than ever, this comprehensive, can-do book offers expert advice, practical instructions, and smart tools to help you increase visibility for your website on Google and other major search engines. In this new edition of their bestselling guide, veteran search marketing consultants Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin give you the very latest SEO and social media strategies and tricks of the trade in a workable, day-by-day plan. Perfect for busy self-starters in organizations large and small, this book will quickly help you increase your visibility and presence on the web. Develop and implement an SEO strategy using the winning An Hour a Day approach Discover how search engines work now, and make them work for you Optimize your site so you can be found, then make the sale Use Facebook, Twitter, and other sites on the Social and Mobile Web to put your site in the spotlight Find out what "link juice" is, and start making your own Get visibility in local, social, shopping, and other featured search results You'll also find: Essential hints, tips, and techniques for everyone from one-person shops to Fortune 500 companies Engaging right-brain vs. left-brain sidebars, where the authors discuss key issues from their unique perspectives Real-world "From the Trenches" case studies that illustrate successes to learn from and mistakes to avoid Praise for Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day, Third Edition "From strategy to implementation and optimization, this valuable resource gives you easily digestible, bite-sized nuggets containing proven, field-tested principles—it's SEO done right." —Amman Badlani, Manager, Online Marketing and Analytics, Planned Parenthood Federation of America "Tightly written and to the point, it gives you the knowledge you need to make a big difference in how your site appears in search engines." —Rafael Baptista, SEO Specialist, Tripadvisor.com "SEO: An Hour a Day is an immediately actionable guerilla field guide. Gradiva and Jennifer have a terrific grip on what real SEO practitioners should undertake short, mid, and long term." —Marty Weintraub, President, aimClear "If you read even half of the book you'll be an SEO star. Imagine what will happen if you read the whole thing!" —Avinash Kaushik, Author of Web Analytics 2.0 and Google Analytics Evangelist