Teach Yourself VISUALLY Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Softcover

Elmansy, Rafiq

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118470664 ISBN 13: 9781118470664

Publisher: Visual, 2013

Synopsis

The perfect guide to help visual learners maximize website discoverability

Whether promoting yourself, your business, or your hobbies and interest, you want your website or blog to appear near the top when your customers search. Search engine optimization, or SEO, is increasingly essential to businesses. This full-color, step-by-step guide demonstrates key SEO concepts and practices in an easy-to-follow visual format. Learn how to set up your website and what to implement to help your business or product make a great showing in search results.

• Helps visual learners understand and practice important SEO concepts
• Uses full-color, step-by-step tasks to teach the elements of SEO
• Provides information you can quickly and easily implement to enhance your site's search engine rankings
• Demonstrates how to make your site attractive to casual web surfers as well as to the algorithms and spiders used by Google and other search engines

Teach Yourself VISUALLY SEO will demystify search engine optimization, helping you boost search engine rankings and improve the visibility of your website.

Note: Per the Penguin Policy 2.0 update, some of the tasks in Chapter 6 may present a risk to Google page rank. Please read the latest policy update from Google to know fully what will work best for increasing and maintaining Google Page Rank

About this title

About the Author

Rafiq Elmansy (Cairo, Egypt) is a creative designer, book author, and blogger who runs the successful blogs at Graphic Mania (www.graphicmania.net) and Photopoly (www.photopoly.net), which receive around 600,000 monthly visitors. He has more than 7 years experience in building professional blogs, writing SEO friendly content, publishing material to the Net, promoting his material online, and analyzing traffic and blog information through Google Analytics and other tools.

From the Back Cover

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 100 SEO tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get your SEO program up and running in no time.

You'll learn to:

• Build an SEO-friendly website
• Add meta tags to your pages
• Optimize your site's content
• Create a Google Analytics account
• Apply SEO to WordPress blogs

Designed for visual learners

• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
• Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
• Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks

From the Inside Flap

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 100 SEO tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get your SEO program up and running in no time.

You'll learn to:

• Build an SEO-friendly website
• Add meta tags to your pages
• Optimize your site's content
• Create a Google Analytics account
• Apply SEO to WordPress blogs

Designed for visual learners

• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
• Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
• Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks

Edition details

• Publisher: Visual
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118470664
• ISBN 13: 9781118470664
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320