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[stinhambo]

I found out about a book called 'SEO Book' by Aaron Wall and the sales page sounds convincing enough (obviously) but I wondered if it is as good as Aaron says it is.

[bragadocchio]

It's been a while since I've read Aaron's book, but it was good enough for me to recommend that a trainee that I was working with read it to learn about the basics of SEO, and get an introduction to advanced topics.

I also recommended that the same trainee read the Sitepoint Search Engine Marketing Kit from Dan Thies.

I had that person look at a lot of other articles and papers, but felt that between those two books, they had a very nice introduction to SEO.

[cre8pc]

Here are some links for more feedback:

Google search on feedback

Testimonials

Feedback on his blog about the book left in comments

In addition to his book, Aaron writes often in his awesome blog

[Nadir]

Reading his excellent blog will convince you that his ebook is worth buying.

[storyspinner]

Aaron's book is good, but there are several other industry experts that have good books out there too.

Mike Grehan, Jill Whalen and Shari Thurow all have books that are just as good.

[EGOL]

Do not skimp on educating yourself. SEO is a highly competetive venture and the rewards for knowledge are high. If you are not good at SEO you are going to waste enormous amounts of time.

Don't hesitate to spend a money and time on your education. Compare the cost of a few books or e-documents to the price of a single university semester. These books are a great deal - think of all of the books that you bought in college and that made you nothing!

[tamar]

I would say yes. Aaron's blog and book are really top notch. Plus, he's very receptive to follow-up questions.

[sanity]

I'm another who'd definitely recommend Aaron's book. As well as SitePoint's Search Marketing Kit.

[randfish]

The answer is an unconditional "yes."

[ukdaz]

I'm another who'd definitely recommend Aaron's book. As well as SitePoint's Search Marketing Kit.

With you on that one Sophie. I have both too - shame Aaron's does not come as a printed and bound version like Sitepoint's though I understand why Aaron has kept his to an online format (he updated it when required).

I'd say they both re-affirmed what I already knew and had taught myself but there were a few things in each which helped me both clarify and change some of the processes I carry out.

Daz

Edited by ukdaz, 24 April 2007 - 09:37 AM.

[JohnMu]

Seeing how you all are not linking with affiliate links, it must really be good

John

[cre8pc]

We would strip out affilite links....against the rules for folks to sell here.

That said, we sell Aaron's book from homepage, and proceeds support maintaining these forums as FREE for everybody and the money goes into the same pool as the scholarship fund money we try to raise every year.

[tambre]

Mike Grehan, Jill Whalen and Shari Thurow all have books that are just as good.

and what books would those happen to be?

i'm fairly sure i could look them up myself but since this is kind of like a "is this a good book" thread, perhaps we could list some more good SEO books?

i'm going to be totally noob and say that while it deals probably 99% with usability... if a site is usable by people it's usable by search engines, yeah? so Don't Make Me Think by Steven Krug is my choice.

-sam

[storyspinner]

Mike's Book - Search Engine Marketing Book
Shari's Book - Search Engine Visibility
Jill's Book - The Nitty Grtty of Writing for Search Engines


ok.. back to work for me!

[tambre]

thank you storyspinner

[A.N.Onym]

Yeah, I suspect "Don't make me think" is great. I'll probably get me one some time.

[Nick Warren]

Hi.
I went to buy Aarons book using my credit card by following the links on this home page. I clicked on "buy now" and entered credit card details. But it would not process my request because I did not enter my adress. The reason I could not enter my adress was because the credit card process only had address options for the United States. This seems an obious flaw. How can people living outside the US buy this book? Seems crazy...

[sanity]

It might be worth emailing Aaron. He's usually pretty good with responding to questions/problems.

[A.N.Onym]

It does have address fields for me. Try waiting for the page to completely load, I guess?

There aren't many required (red *) fields, really.

[BJ Wright]

I recommend reading the book. As mentioned earlier simply read Aaron's blog for a week and you'll see the great content that is put out.