Part I: Search Engine Basics 7
Chapter 1: Surveying the Search Engine Landscape 9
Chapter 2: Search Results, Deconstructed 23
Chapter 3: Your One-Hour, Search Engine–Friendly Web Site Makeover 33
Chapter 4: Beating the Competition — Planning a Powerful Search Engine Strategy 49
Chapter 5: Making Your Site Useful and Visible 67
Part II: Building Search Engine–Friendly Sites 83
Chapter 6: Picking Powerful Keywords 85
Chapter 7: Creating Pages That Search Engines Love 107
Chapter 8: Avoiding Things That Search Engines Hate 135
Chapter 9: Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap 163
Chapter 10: Bulking Up Your Site — Competing with Content 179
Chapter 11: Finding Traffic Through Local-Search Marketing 203
Part III: Adding Your Site to the Indexes and Directories 227
Chapter 12: Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines 229
Chapter 13: Submitting to the Directories 243
Chapter 14: Product Search: Remember the Shopping Directories and Retailers 259
Part IV: After You’ve Submitted Your Site 283
Chapter 15: Using Link Popularity to Boost Your Position 285
Chapter 16: Finding Sites to Link to Yours 309
Chapter 17: Even More Great Places to Get Links 333
Chapter 18: Social Networking — Driven by Drivel 343
Chapter 19: Video: Putting Your Best Face Forward 353
Chapter 20: When Google Bites Back: A Guide to Catastrophe 359
Part V: The Part of Tens 377
Chapter 21: Ten Things to Know and Do When Picking an SEO Firm 379
Chapter 22: Ten-Plus Myths and Mistakes 385
Chapter 23: Ten-Plus Ways to Stay Updated 393
Chapter 24: Ten-Plus Useful Things to Know 399
Index 415
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