★“不浮夸、多数据并且富含洞见,这是为那些需要深入理解SEO的读者准备的必读作品。” ——Seth Godin,《We Are All Weired》作者
目录
Foreword Preface
1 Search: Reflection Consciousness and Connecting Commerce The Mission of Search Engines The Market Share of Search Engines The Human Goals of Searching Who Searches and What Do They Search For? Determining Searcher Intent: A Challenge for Search Marketers and Search Engines Navigational Queries Informational Queries Transactional Queries Adaptive Search Searcher Intent How People Search How Search Engines Drive Ecommerce The Mobile Shift The History of Eye Tracking: How Users Scan Results Pages Click Tracking: How Users Click on Results (Organic Versus Paid) Distribution of Search Results and Traffic Conclusion
2 Search Engine Basics Understanding Search Engine Results Understanding the Jayout of Search Results Pages Understanding How Vertical Results Fit into the SERPs Google's Knowledge Graph Algorithm-Based Ranking Systems: Crawling, Indexing, and Ranking Crawling and Indexing Retrieval and Ranking Evaluating Content on a Web Page Understanding What Content Search Engines Can"See on a Web Page Determining Searcher Intent and Delivering Relevant, Fresh Content Document Analysis and Semantic Conneaivity Content Quality and User Engagement Link Analysis Evaluating Soaal Media Signals Problem Words, Disambiguation, and Diversity Why These Algorithms Sometimes Fail The Knowledge Graph Analyzing Ranking Factors Negative Ranking Faaors Other Ranking Faaors Using Advanced Search Techniques Advanced Google Search Operators Bing Advanced Search Operators More Advanced Search Operator Techniques Vertical Search Engines Vefflcal Search from the Major Search Engines Universal Search/Blended Search Country-Speafic Search Engines Optimizing for Speafic Countries Conclusion
3 SEO Planning: Customizing Your Strategy Strategic Goals SEO Practitioners Can Fulfill Visibility (Branding) Website Traffic High Retum on Investment Every SEO Strategy Should Be Custorruzed Understanding Search Engine Traffic and Visitor Intent Developing an SEO Plan Prior to Site Development Business Faaors That Impaa Your SEO Strategy ……
4 SEO Implementation: First Stages 5 Keyword Research 6 Developing an SEO-Friendly Website 7 Content Marketing 8 How Social Media and User Data Play a Role in Search Results and Rankings 9 Panda, Penguin, and Penalties 10 Mobde, Local, and Vertical SEO 11 Tracking Results and Measuring Success 12 Domain Changes, Redesigns, and Troubleshooting 13 SEO Education and Research 14 SEO Support: In-House, External, or Both? 15 An EvoMng Art Form: The Future of SEO
IN 2004,WHENI DID MY FIRST PROFESSIONAL WORKIN THE FIELD OF SEARCH engine optimization, Google was estimated to receive~200 million searches each day. In 2014, that number jumped to more than 6 billion, a 30x inaease over 10 years. Since its inception, web search has been a powerful tool for people to find what they need, and as a result, it's also been a powerful channel for those seeking to attract attention, traffic, actions, and customers. But in 2004, discovering how search engines worked and how to drive that traffic was a daunting challenge. Web forums, blogs, and a handful of industry news sites were the first to take on the problem. They built communities and published resources to help both industry insiders and those aspiring to leam SEO. That's where I first cut my teeth. But learning from those sources was hard work-and there were no alternatives. Schools didn't teach SEO (the great majority of them still don't), online courses were extremely rare (and many were low quality or straight-up misleading), and there were almost no books on the subject. When I founded the SEO moz blog (which became the company known today as "Moz"), my mission was to educate and to learn by doing so. Nothing has made me a better student of SEO and of marketing than being forced to write about and teach it to others. That's why it was a great honor to have been one of the contributing writers for the original two editions of this book. When we finished that first full draft, I remember skimming through it and thinking, "Man...I wish they'd had this when I was learning SEO." That was a good feeling. Search engines are complex. The Web is massively complex. And the human beings doing the searching, sifting, clicking, and converting-they're the most complex of all. But all that complexity shouldn't create an impenetrable wall for those seeking knowledge. In the ast, when it has, the reputation of SEO itself has suffered. CMOs, marketing managers, and mall-business owners have hired or contracted professionals to perform SEO and been frustrated by the process, the requirements, and the results, often because they themselves didn't know enough about the practice to make a good choice or to acted the right expectations. By pulling back the veil on SEO, those of us tasked with teaching are enabling the right experations to be set, the right people to be hired, and the right results from SEO investments. Arguably, no one is more qualified or has done more than the team of writers, editors, and praaitioners behind this new edition of The Art of SEO. In this book, you'II find not only the wisdom of its authors, but the work of thousands around the world whotve contributed their insight direaly (and are properly ated, of course) and indirealy (we thank you, too, unacknowledged teachers of us all) to transparency in a sometimes too-opaque field. While I could not personally contribute to this edition as I would have liked, it was my honor and privilege to once again grace these pages (even if only in plus paltry foreword) alongside such an excellent team. Welcome to The Art of SEO.