Comments on: The Art of SEO: Book Review

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:04:42 +0000

I’m wondering if anyone else stopped on the bottom of page 37 like I did, after reading, “Spammers ruined the SEO value of this [meta keywords] tag years ago, so its value is now negligible. Google does not use this tag for ranking at all…”
Really?
WordPress blogging, the All-in-one SEO plugin, Scribe, etc., all make keywording a blog post / page extremely important and Google ignores this information and it has zero effect on ranking?
Anyone else find this statement in the book weird? I ask, because I am an SEO-rookie and this statement just isn’t what I read from just about every SEO source out there.

By: Andrew Wheeler

Andrew Wheeler — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:30:33 +0000

I bought it recently – and its way ahead of the others I have.
It pretty much covers everything you need – forums, social media, viral stuff. If I had to pick one, it would be this one.

By: Zachary

Zachary — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:39:40 +0000

I would agree with this review. I think the book gets technical when it needs to but is organized in a way that is easy to follow and apply the concepts.