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  Smile Vital SEO Books??

Hi,

After running an affiliate marketing programme and doin a little SEO I am very keen to expand my SEO knowledge before completing my final year of university (I am currently on placement and would like to do into SEO when I graduate in 2009)

Are there any books etc that you could recommend to get me started and on my way to a dazzeling SEO career??!!!

Any info is greatly appreciated...

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  Re: Vital SEO Books??

In this case, I don't think books will help you much, you need to be looking for information online.

The reason for this is that the process of SEO is ever changing, as the search engines come up with new ways to define what a "good" site is, and to block spam sites. As a result, the info in a book would quickly go out of date.

There are huge numbers of SEO articles and Forums on the net, do a search in Google and you'll find loads that will help you. Just bear in mind that you can't take everything at face value. People have a lot of differing opinions as to what works and what doesn't, some people will say x is a winning forumla, whilst others will say it's rubbish. Again, you also have the problem of info going out of date.

It's a very difficult subject, as the Search Engines don't really want people to know what works, otherwise people could use it to make spam sites rank high. Because of this, theres no data that is 100% fact, it's all subjective based on peoples own opinions. You can get concepts from reading the many forums and articles on the net though, and then it's down to you to refine these and find what works for you.
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put content on a site and get links

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>> theres no data that is 100% fact, it's all subjective based on peoples own opinions.

Actually, that's not true - there are SEOs who do proper research / testing etc, but they tend not to talk about the results over much, at least not directly. Over time, you learn which people in the SEO firmament have ideas you listen to

>> people could use it to make spam sites rank high

Yup. Even proper sites, occasionally
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>> people could use it to make spam sites rank high

Yup. Even proper sites, occasionally
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  Re: Vital SEO Books??

I would go with the suggestion of learning on the net. SEO techniques seem to change daily and keeping up with the engines changes is like a full time job!

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content and links.....seo has not changed for years........the clever bit is how to get links...

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content and links.....seo has not changed for years
SEO is changing all the time. As has been backed up on another thread by a number of people, although links help get extra traffic to a site, they are much less important in terms of ranking, and its possible to rank at number 1 with a single backlink.
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See also:

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links and content is what I said.......if their is an seo on this forum that has changed their fundamental approach here in 10 years I will be astonished...lets not oversell something that is simple.

if you play in the dark world then yes it changes lots as the tricks get found and stopped, but otherwise links and content have never changed

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thank you everybody , lots of useful info to keep me going!! feeling slightly daunted by it all but i'm sure it will all become clear when I get stuck in!

Cheers again everyone for your help, this forum has been an amazing help getting started in SEO on my placement. Hopefully now I am learning a little more I will be able to make useful contributions for other people!!

Em
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