SEO Book

November 6, 2007

While reading John Chow’s book, I stumbled upon this great little book called SEO Book by Aaron Wall.  The book is 331 pages of genius for $79.  I’ve spent a lot of time learnign SEO through trial and error, so anything that allows me to take a few short cuts is worth it.  The book comes with lots of extras, including a list of SEO tools, including SEO forums, conferences, social bookmarking, analysis tools, keyword tools, link-building tools, pay-per-click and a ton of others.  It could take you hours of Internet research to find all the information that’s been neatly compiled in this book for you.

The book starts out at the beginning, helping you to select the right product, domain name and hosting.  Then Aaron walks you through selecting the right keywords for your product and putting them to use by optimizing your pages and your entire site.  Then you start registering with directories and link building.  All of this is presented in a clear, straight-forward way that leaves out all the guesswork.  By the time you’ve read this entire book, you will be an expert in SEO, and you’ll have access to all the tools (many of them free) that you’ll need to properly optimize your site.

However, if you know anything about SEO, then you know that this type of information changes rapidly.  So you might be thinking, why should I spend $79 on a book that will be out-of-date in a month?  Aaron’s thought of that, and he includes free updates with your purchase.  So far, the book has been update 20 times, so you know you’ll be on top of the changes when they happen.

 Of course, if you don’t want to do it youself, consider hiring me.

How to Make Money Online

November 3, 2007

Make money online! What a great concept. If you’re involved with any online business, then you know how many people are selling you information to help you make money online. I’ve purchased my fair share of this type of information, and sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s not worth the atoms the eBook is printed on. However, what if I told you there was a free eBook that gave you tons of great ideas about how to make money online?

Well, a friend and fellow entreprenuer sent me the eBook, Make Money Online with John Chow dot Com by John Chow and I’m reading it now. In the book, he talks about how he is making money by blogging, not just a little money, but $10,000+ each month. If that doesn’t get your attention, I don’t know what will. The amazing thing is that he’s giving this away for free. You may not be a blogger, but I recommend the book to anyone who has a website, simple because in the first 5 pages, he turned me on to more new and valuable ideas and things I hadn’t heard of before than most books that I’ve paid for.

Here’s a sample. One of the most valuable things I’ve read so far is about ReviewMe!. ReviewMe! is a program where advertisers can pay bloggers to write a review about their product or service. This could be great for driving traffic to your site, or in a link building program for your website. Or if you blog, you can sign up to make money reviewing other people’s products and services.

I’m sure there will be other things I glean from this ebook. Get your own now and start making money online.