Teach Yourself VISUALLY Search Engine Optimization

by Rafiq Elmansy

The perfect guide to help visual learners maximize website discoverability

Whether promoting yourself, your business, or your hobbies and interest, you want your website or blog to appear near the top when your customers search. Search engine optimization, or SEO, is increasingly essential to businesses. This full-color, step-by-step guide demonstrates key SEO concepts and practices in an easy-to-follow visual format. Learn how to set up your website and what to implement to help your business or product make a great showing in search results.

Helps visual learners understand and practice important SEO concepts Uses full-color, step-by-step tasks to teach the elements of SEO Provides information you can quickly and easily implement to enhance your site's search engine rankings Demonstrates how to make your site attractive to casual web surfers as well as to the algorithms and spiders used by Google and other search engines Teach Yourself VISUALLY SEO will demystify search engine optimization, helping you boost search engine rankings and improve the visibility of your Per the Penguin Policy 2.0 update, some of the tasks in Chapter 6 may present a risk to Google page rank. Please read the latest policy update from Google to know fully what will work best for increasing and maintaining Google Page Rank

321 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 29, 2013

About the author

Rafiq Elmansy is design lecturer at the American University in Cairo, as well as a worldwide author and design manager. His experience includes more than 15 years in the design industry, working with clients from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and Australia.

His design creative work is exhibited in many locations including Croatia, South Africa, and Spain. He is also a jury member and mentor in acknowledged design competitions including the Adobe Design Achievement Awards and Poster for Tomorrow. He writes articles for the Smashing Magazine, Tut+, Adobe and his design blog (www.designorate.com). He is a published author for many books for John Wiley, O’Reilly, and Focal Press, his books include:
- Teach Yourself Visually SEO (http://bit.ly/tyv_seo), published by Wiley.
- Illustrator Foundations (http://bit.ly/AI-CS6), published by FocalPress.
- Photoshop 3D for Animators (http://bit.ly/PS-3D), published by FocalPress.
- Photoshop 3D for Animators (Japanese version) by Born Digital (http://www.borndigital.co.jp/book/det...).
- Quick Guide to Flash Catalyst (http://bit.ly/FlashCata), published by O’Reilly Media.

Rafiq is a friend of ICO-D and recently he becomes an author and continent manager for the Interaction Design Foundation in Norway. Elmansy is an Adobe Certified Instructor, community professional, and user group manager for the first Adobe user group in Egypt and the Middle East, AUGE. For more than seven years, he has provided frequent support to the Adobe community around the world through events and online sessions in various Adobe applications. Elmansy is pursuing a Master of Arts degree in design management from Staffordshire University in the U.K., with a focus on strategic design.