The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization - Paperback

by Eric Enge (Author), Stephan Spencer (Author), Jessie Stricchiola (Author)

Three acknowledged experts in search engine optimization share guidelines and innovative techniques that will help you plan and execute a comprehensive SEO strategy. Complete with an array of effective tactics from basic to advanced, this fourth edition prepares digital marketers for 2023 and beyond with updates on SEO tools and new search engine optimization methods that have reshaped the SEO landscape, including how generative AI can be used to support SEO and SEO-related tasks.

Novices will receive a thorough SEO education, while experienced SEO practitioners get an extensive reference to support ongoing engagements.

• Learn about the various intricacies and complexities of internet search
• Explore the underlying theory and inner workings of search engines and their algorithms
• Understand the interplay between social media engagement and other factors
• Discover tools to track results and measure success
• Examine the effects of key Google algorithm updates
• Consider opportunities for visibility in mobile, local, vertical, social, and voice search
• Build a competent SEO team with defined roles
• Identify what opportunities exist for using generative AI as part of an SEO program
• Gain insights into the future of search and internet discoverability

Author Biography

Eric Enge is the founder and CEO of Stone Temple Consulting, a leading SEO firm that serves a wide variety of companies, including a number of Fortune 100 companies. He writes regular columns in Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch, and has also provided feature articles to SEOmoz. The interview series he publishes on the Ramblings about SEO blog (http: //www.stonetemple.com/blog) regularly provides information directly from senior people fro Google and Microsoft on a regular basis. Eric is also a highly regarded speaker, and regular speaks on Internet marketing topics at conferences such as Pubcon, Search Engine Strategies, Search Marketing Expo, the American Marketing Association, SEMPO, Internet Retailers, O'Reilly, Web 2.0, and many others. You can also see content published by Eric on a regular basis by following him on Twitter (@stonetemple) or putting him in one of your circles on Google+ (+Eric Enge).

Stephan Spencer is an internationally recognized SEO expert, Internet entrepreneur, sought-after professional speaker, and bestselling author. He is the author of Google Power Search and coauthor of The Art of SEO and of Social eCommerce, all published by Oâ Reilly. He is the host of the podcasts Marketing Speak and The Optimized Geek. Stephan produces and presents the 3-day training intensives Traffic Control and Passions into Profits. He is producing a video-based SEO training and coaching program at ScienceOfSEO.com. Stephan founded the interactive agency Netconcepts in 1995 and grew it into a multinational SEO firm, with dozens of staff in each of its U.S., New Zealand and China offices.

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.