Comments on: SEO Essentials Book Review – Can This E-Book Deliver A Top 10 Search Engine Ranking?

By: subbu

subbu — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:18:46 +0000

I purchased this eBook about 3 – 4 months back and am VERY happy with the results. Search engine traffic
has gone way higher then it was before by following a few simple steps. The $79 or what ever it cost me at the time has been paid back a number of times over.

This is the first eBook I have purchased and I do feel that $79 is money very well spent!

By: How To Choose a Career

How To Choose a Career — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:55:02 +0000

I own Aaron Wall’s Ebook called SEO Book and I think it is the best in the industry. I don’t think I will try a new one.

By: film izle

film izle — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:44:13 +0000

The e-book looks good at a beginner perspective, but it certainly doesn’t compare to Aaron’s SEO book, nothing out there doesn’t remotely come close. If you want to learn SEO buy his book, Eric’s e-book is not very complete.

By: How to Write an Ebook

How to Write an Ebook — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:27:01 +0000

I love SEO and I believe that it’s certainly important, but I’m also excited about the many other ways to get traffic to my sites.

By: Work At Home Ideas and Opportunities

Work At Home Ideas and Opportunities — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:59:02 +0000

Thanks Yaro and Michael for the review. SEO is at the back of every marketer's mind, and there are so much to learn. Having 191 pages may seem pretty daunting to read, especially if the real education starts towards the end. However, I think the initial chapters are even more important if you really want to understand the true concepts of SEO and how simple it can be. Work From Home Business Blog

By: Get Your SEO Essentials Here | John Chow dot Com

Get Your SEO Essentials Here | John Chow dot Com — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:00:14 +0000

[...] already reviewed the e-book SEO Essentials For a Top 10 Search Engine Ranking over at Entrepreneur’s Journey earlier this month. I guess the e-book’s author — Eric Brown — wants even more [...]

By: Carlo Selorio

Carlo Selorio — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:57:01 +0000

Thanks Yaro for clarifying it for me.

I’ll look into getting one or both.

Nice reviews for both products by the way, very detailed.

Cheers,

Carlo Selorio

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:04:27 +0000

Have you read Aaron Wall’s SEO Book? How would you compare the two?

By: Novice SEO

Novice SEO — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:58:48 +0000

At my blog, NoviceSEO.com I have attempted to document my SEO learning experience. I have had success in taking a website from 600 to 14 in 100 days for a website in the highly competative truck driver recruiting industry. I used SEOBook by Aaron Wall as a guide along with other info gleaned from reading many of the excellent blogs on SEO techniques.

Now I am at a plateau. I started with 8 primary search terms with all but one ranking between 200 and 600 on google. They are now all in the top 40 with 6 in the top 20.

Maybe the information in this Ebook will help me get over that plateau and move from the 20s to the top ten for these…….

I’ll make the purchase…….use the info in this ebook and then document what works on blog as I did for SEOBook. To me the price is a small investment for the potential return…… Let’s see what happens….

By: Tibi Puiu

Tibi Puiu — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:33:52 +0000

By: Aurelius Tjin

Aurelius Tjin — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:58:45 +0000

A good SEO book is hard to find these days.

As always, there is not even a ‘magic’ SEO formula for you to get it on top of the page ranks.

Thanks for the info. I’m always out on the look for a good SEO read.

All the best,
Aurelius

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:46:07 +0000

Eric – Thanks for the long explanation and wow – a 365 day money back guarantee!

I think to answer the question comparing the two books – both SEOBook and Eric’s SEO Essentials book will provide a ton of information about SEO. Sure there will be content overlap, but if SEO is your focus at the moment and you get a few unique insights from both books and you have a means to leverage the traffic boost you could get from a top ten ranking that far outweighs the cost of the books – well you should be buying both!

If you don’t have the cash or a means to recoup your investment cost, then perhaps you should be studying free resources for a while yet.

Personally I like my ebooks nowadays to be around the 50 page mark at most, so if I had one complaint about both books is that they are too long!

By: Michael Kwan

Michael Kwan — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:44:14 +0000

I haven’t had a chance to read SEOBook by Aaron Hall, so I can’t really compare the two. With this e-book, I say that it’s a good start for many beginners, because it provides much of the groundwork before you can get into any of the heavy stuff. If you feel that you are an intermediate to advanced SEO person, then this book may not be for you.

By: Eric Brown

Eric Brown — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:03:09 +0000

Yaro and Michael, I appreciate your review of my ebook, SEO Essentials For a Top 10 Search Engine Ranking.

I would like to answer a few of the questions asked about the ebook up to this point and I will be glad to answer later questions also.

On my website I included a section for an SEO challenge, which I discuss in the ebook, where I use the information provided in the ebook to attempt to gain a top 10 search engine ranking for the keyword phrase “learn seo”, which is the main target market phrase for my ebook.

I started the website in its present form in late June of this year. The seo challenge ran from July 1st – September 30th of this year during the actual period that I was writing the ebook.

The SEO challenge results are listed month by month with daily results for the Google, Yahoo and MSN search engines. The URL address for the seo results is provided at: http://www.seotips4u.com/seochseenra.html

The current search engine rankings, as of today, for the keyword phrase “learn seo” are as follows: Google rank is #6, Yahoo rank is currently not in the top 30 but the highest rank in this search engine has been #15, but the ranking will improve over time with Yahoo updates, and the current MSN search engine ranking is #1.

I completed the ebook last month. The target market for the ebook ranges from the newest of beginners to the intermediate level in relation to SEO.

This is the first of a three part series of SEO related ebooks I will write. The next ebook will focus on more advance topics related to SEO.

However, for individuals interested primarily in learning basic to intermediate level SEO, learning how to gain and maintain high search engine rankings and building a strong foundation in search engine optimization, my current ebook provides the information needed to accomplish these goals.

I wrote the ebook from a website owner point of view because that is my involvement on the Internet. I own and operate niche market websites; I do not own or operate an SEO business.

I have been helping people with search engine optimization for several years as a friend and fellow entrepreneur at no charge, but you can only help a few people in this manner; so, I wrote the ebook to provide information to a larger segment of Internet entrepreneurs who might find the information useful in their day-to-day Internet activities.

The ebook has a 365-day money back guarantee and I priced the ebook in a price range that is probably lower than most ebooks on the topic material; but my primary focus related to this ebook is helping the readers improve their search engine rankings and learn search engine optimization.

Again Yaro. I appreciate the review on your blog and I will be glad to answer any questions that your visitors might have regarding my ebook.

Have a great day.

Thank you,
Eric Brown

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:03:30 +0000

Caroline – I’ll note your comments about price and add it to the list of headings at the top for future reviews.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:02:02 +0000

There are tons of books on SEO – I have one coming out one day soon for blogs too. I think Aaron has a huge lead simply because he’s the preeminent expert and of course his book is pretty darn comprehensive.

I’ve emailed Michael and hopefully he’ll jump in here and offer more feedback about the book and perhaps clarify whether he recommends people buy it or not (a good point for future reviews as well).

Blaine – Well spotted about the affiliate program (though I hate shareasale), not that we would promote as an affiliate in the sponsored review, but worth noting given Michael’s comments in the review.

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:44:36 +0000

That’s a nice review, it would be helpful to also include the price at the top of the review near the summary.

@Carlo, that was also my first thought – how does it shape up to Aaron Wall’s book. What we really need is not so much an individual review of each book, but a side-by-side comparison of the two. There are probably others out there too.

By: Joe O'Brien

Joe O'Brien — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:03:53 +0000

Michael hasn’t really said whether he thinks this book is good or bad and who should or should not consider buying it.

IMO SEOBook by Aaron Wall is the “authoritative guide” to SEO. It can be a bit advanced in parts but it is a rock solid guide to what is and isn’t important. You’ll probably have to read it a couple of times.

P.S. There is an aff section on the seotips4u site http://www.seotips4u.com/afpr.html

P.P.S.

As I’ve said many times, “SEO is simple. People make it complicated.”

Yes and no, basic SEO is simple but advanced SEO can be mind bogglingly complicated. In a lot of cases, basic SEO is all that’s needed. Having said that, you probably won’t get too many top ten rankings for competitive terms with basic SEO alone.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:28:38 +0000

Hey Carlo,

You can check out my review of SEOBook

Aaron Wall certainly has more exposure but I’d say Eric might have aimed for a different market with his book, perhaps Michael can chime in with his opinion though.

By: Carlo Selorio

Carlo Selorio — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:13:15 +0000

Hey Yaro/Michael,

I’m looking at buying an Seo eBook…. Is it better than SEOBook.com?

I heard that is the best one around.

Would be good to know both your opinions.

Cheers,
Carlo Selorio