Understanding SEO: Building a Foundation for Long Term Success

by Melanie Mitchell

Overview

The web’s more crowded than ever – and that means Search Engine Optimization is more critical than ever. All too often, SEO is viewed as a mysterious “black art” – but it doesn’t need to be. In

Understanding SEO: Building a Foundation for Long Term Success, leading practitioner Melanie Mitchell completely demystifies SEO, showing you how to grab value from “low hanging fruit,” and start optimizing everything from pages, text, and keywords to images – even your page’s underlying HTML code. Mitchell shows how to craft a strategy that reflects your specific goals for attracting qualified traffic. You’ll learn how to go beyond mere rankings to measure everything from the quality of visitor engagement to sales conversions; how to structure sites that are friendlier to both searchers and search engines; how to earn the honest external links that search engine algorithms love; and a whole lot more. Along the way, Mitchell explains all the concepts and terms you need to understand, so you can do it yourself, or work successfully with SEO specialists. If you’re responsible for attracting more and better web traffic, this is the simple, usable, up-to-date SEO introduction you’ve been looking for!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780133037623
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	05/14/2012
Series:	FT Press Delivers Marketing Shorts
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	59
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Melanie Mitchell, SVP of Search Strategy at Digitas, is responsible for managing its Search Engine Marketing Knowledge Center. As VP of Marketing for Folio Investments, Inc., she led company marketing efforts including SEO, PPC, display, PR, video, and email. Previously, at AOL, her responsibilities included developing marketing strategies, establishing processes, procedures, tracking technology, reporting, and managing the team tasked with increasing AOL.com's free content business via paid and organic search. She is an Advisory Board Member for WebmasterWorld Pubcon, a speaker at Search Engine Strategies (SES), Pubcon, Search Marketing Expo (SMX), AdTech, WebGuild, and PRSA; and a contributing writer to Search Engine Watch. Mitchell has been named several times as a “top in-house SEO” by Natural Search Blog.