Search Engine Optimization (SEO) How to Optimize Your Website for Internet Search Engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live, AOL, Ask, AltaVista, FAST, GigaBlast, Snap, LookSmart and more)
This book shows you how to UFE your web popularity of? T, page rank, website visitor retention and internet Verk? By building backlinks erh hen?, Link exchange, search engine submissions, blogging, directory manual editing, social media (eg RSS feeds, forums, groups, video logging, photo blogging, paid social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace etc), integration, pay-per-click, paid submissions, banner advertising, banner exchanges, news and PR article submissions, podcasting, doorway pages, referrals
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Review by J. M. Morgan for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) How to Optimize Your Website for Internet Search Engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live, AOL, Ask, AltaVista, FAST, GigaBlast, Snap, LookSmart and more)
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I’m searching for books on Search Engine Marketing/Optimization and stumbled on Samuel Blankson’s book here on Amazon. After reading a few of the 29 customer reviews I noticed the writing style of almost every one was very similar – almost as though one person wrote them all. I’m sure you’ve noticed how many different writing “levels” there are in any one group of online reviews – spelling and grammar errors, etc. These reviews had no such discrepancies. So I started looking at the reviewers’ other critiques and lo and behold: Probably 80% of them had only reviewed 1-2 other books and guess who the common author was? Sammy (Spam Man) Blankson. And they were all 5 star reviews.
Am I naive? Does this kind of “review spam” happen a lot on Amazon? Maybe Amazon should review the reviewers? At any rate, Mr Blankson – shame on you. Whether you or your publisher (Gosh, the publisher is Blankson Enterprises Limited!) initiated this scam, it’s shameful. This exploitative and base practice is bad form, unethical, and the equivalent of SEO spam. You of all people should know better, if you even wrote the book yourself.
Review by V. Keranen for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) How to Optimize Your Website for Internet Search Engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live, AOL, Ask, AltaVista, FAST, GigaBlast, Snap, LookSmart and more)
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I’m writing my thesis on search engine optimization and asked my university library to purchase this book, since it was written recently and customer reviews seemed to be positive. I just finished reading it and I’m sorry to say that this guy does not know too much about SEO: Out of 240 pages only 20 concentrate around the actual subject and rest is wasted on such interesting “SEO techniques” as advertising your website with inflatables. Yes INFLATABLES!! And out of those 20 pages he goes on and on about META tags for eight pages…
Like couple people before me noticed, looks like these five star reviews of this book were written either people who do not know anything about search engine optimization and/or author himself. PLEASE, DO NOT PURCHASE THIS UTTER PIECE OF RUBBISH!
Review by Seg Arch for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) How to Optimize Your Website for Internet Search Engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live, AOL, Ask, AltaVista, FAST, GigaBlast, Snap, LookSmart and more)
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Check it out, most of the 5 star reviews have reviewed the same 3 books (1 by the same author). It’s pretty obvious what’s going on here. What can we do to eliminate the fake reviews?
Review by Krzysztof Laskowski for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) How to Optimize Your Website for Internet Search Engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live, AOL, Ask, AltaVista, FAST, GigaBlast, Snap, LookSmart and more)
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Overall this book does not have any direction. Most of the facts and resources are outdated. Very bad at explaining the process. It seems to me that this book was written 8 years ago not 2008. I didnt read the reviews on this book but what it seems like is that the 5 star reviews are FAKE!!!
Review by Michael Harrison for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) How to Optimize Your Website for Internet Search Engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live, AOL, Ask, AltaVista, FAST, GigaBlast, Snap, LookSmart and more)
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I bought this book after launching a new website. I thought that because it was the most popular that it would give me a fast way to improve my search engine results. After getting about half way through the book, I put it down and haven’t gotten back to it since.
I found the search engine optimization jargon and techniques a little too advanced for my liking. Although some of the content provides new information, I didn’t feel like it truly helped me to improve my ranking. There appear to be some other books on SEO that may be a bit more simple to understand.