Organic SEO Marketing

Product Description
Any organization looking to succeed in today’s web economy needs to optimize its website for search engines. This book, written by four of the field’s most noted experts on search engine optimization (SEO), provides guidelines for planning and executing a comprehensive search engine strategy.

The Art of SEO corrects much of the misinformation that currently exists on this complex subject by laying out the fundamentals in a clear, thoughtful manner. Novices get a complete and thorough SEO education, with the groundwork they need to get started. SEO professionals will find this book useful as a comprehensive reference for ongoing projects.

• Learn the underlying theory behind SEO, and what makes search engines work
• Become familiar with the steps you need to take to prepare for an SEO effort
• Understand how to put together the specific details for executing an SEO strategy
• Explore several value-added components to expand your SEO plan
• Learn what’s necessary to build a competent SEO team, with defined roles
• Get the experts’ view of the future of SEO

About the Author
Eric Enge is the President of Stone Temple Consulting, an SEO consulting firm with offices in Boston and Northern California. Eric is a regular speaker at search industry conferences, such as Search Engine Strategies and Search Marketing Expo. Eric also makes regular contributions on the topic of SEO to Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch, SEOmoz, and his own blogs.

Stephan M. Spencer, M.Sc., is Founder and President of Netconcepts, a leading natural search marketing firm. Clients include Home Shopping Network, AOL, Verizon SuperPages.com, Discovery Channel, and REI, to name a few.

Stephan is also a frequent speaker at Internet conferences around the globe (including Berlin, London, Toronto, Santiago, Auckland, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and places in between). He is a Senior Contributor to MarketingProfs.com and to Practical Ecommerce, a monthly columnist on Search Engine Land, and he’s contributed to Multichannel Merchant, DM News, Catalog Age, Catalog Success, Building Online Business, Unlimited, and NZ Marketing magazine among others. He is co-author of the analyst report “The State of Search Engine Marketing 1.0 – New Strategies for Successful Cataloging” published by Catalog Age.

Stephan is an avid blogger, blogging on the Searchlight Blog (part of the CNET Blog Network), the Shop.org Blog, Natural Search Blog, BusinessBlogConsulting.com, MarketingProfs Daily Fix, Changes For Good, Google, I Suggest… and of course his own personal blog Stephan Spencer’s Scatterings.

Rand Fishkin is the CEO & Co-Founder of SEOmoz, a leader in the field of search engine optimization tools, resources & community. In 2009, he was named among the 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs Under 30 by BusinessWeek, and has been written about it in the Seattle Times, Newsweek and the New York Times among others. Rand has keynoted conferences on search from Sydney to Reykjavik, Montreal to Munich and spoken at dozens of shows around the world. He’s particularly passionate about the SEOmoz blog, read by more than 35,000 search professionals each day. In his miniscule spare time, Rand enjoys the company of his amazing wife, Geraldine.

As the founder of Alchemist Media, Inc., a San Francisco search engine marketing company, Jessie Stricchiola began her search engine optimization career in 1997. For the past five years, she has been a guest speaker at each of the search industry’s leading conferences including Incisive Media’s Search Engine Strategies Conferences, Danny Sullivan’s Search Marketing Expo, WebmasterWorld’s PubCon, ad:Tech, WebGuild, and Shop.org. As one of the original nine founders of SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization), she served for two years on the Board of Directors for the organization.

Jessie has been interviewed by numerous trade publications and media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired Magazine, The Washington Post, SearchEngineWatch.com, CNET.com, CNBC, NPR, and The BBC. Her work on click fraud is featured in The Google Story by David Vise.