Ultimate Guide to Optimizing Your Website

Written for beginners, author Jon Rognerud offers every tip, trick, and secret from keyword research and competitive analysis, to marketing and messaging, content development, link building, and conversions and tracking of search engine positions. Local search, social media, and blogging are new to this edition, and show examples on how to optimize these important new development areas. Updated content includes social media search content that reflects strategies and market information tohelps business owners easily add this companion to SEO work, blog optimization steps with best SEO tactics for creating search engine friendly sites, and the topten hottest WordPress plugins for top traffic boost. A local SEO section showsreaders how to avoid the most common mistakes on optimizaing for local search and the updated section on Google analytics shows how to track top keywords and pages. An updated link building section provides new white hat SEO link building tactics to provide better long term rankings and traffic building, and an expanded resource sectionincludes updated screen-shots of SEO applied. Step-by-step examples are written with an at the kitchen table type dialogue for accessibility and an advanced strategy section takes readers to the next level.