Preface

The book before you is designed to be a complete and thorough education on search engine optimization for SEO practitioners at all levels. This second edition has been completely revamped and updated from the first edition, taking into account the changes in the search engine industry and the rising influence of social media. Nonetheless, as with the first edition, you can think of it as SEO 101, SEO 102, and SEO 103. Our goal has been to help simplify a very complex, layered topic and to make it easier for people to grasp, as well as to make it easier to focus on the most important aspects of SEO for individual businesses. As a group we have over 30 years’ experience working on SEO projects. This means that we have seen how SEO works over a relatively long period of time, across thousands of different websites. Any one of us could have written this book individually (in fact, one of us tried to), but we discovered that by working together we were able to create something of much greater value for you, the SEO artist.

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