The Internet is changing our world. This is as true now as it was at the height of the dotcom boom (if not more so). We are the wired generation; always on, always empowered and always connected. We can achieve things today that were not even dreamt of 50 years ago.

In both my corporate life and as managing director of Mercury Web Publishing, I am passionate about the role of technology as a competitive weapon in the 21st Century business.

I take every opportunity to promote IT as a profession and to raise awareness of its value, including presentations to Cranfield and London Business Schools, the British Computer Society and eBusiness and IT Industry events across the UK and Continental Europe.

As an eBusiness specialist, I have initiated and steered multi-million pound intranet projects at two of the UK's biggest companies; British Airways and Centrica and played a leading role in the relaunch of the AA's website in 2001. I am a Chartered Accountant, an IT Professional and a successful online publisher and eBook author. I am a Looksmart Zealot, with over 10 years of web design and SEO experience.

Review

"David Viney's book pulls off the difficult trick of both being comprehensible to beginners and offering a level of comprehensive (and up to date) detail that will appeal to older hands. It's divided into seven steps that broadly follow the timeline of an SEO campaign, with some useful case studies. Put simply, this book delivers what it promises." -- .NET Magazine, August, 2008

The information in this very specific book can help you increase the effectiveness of your Web efforts and gain better visibility among the Web search results on Google and other search engines. David Viney shares his expertise in Search Engine Optimization and provides useful detail on the topic. Have you wondered if you need professional input in this area? Read here to find out how expert guidance, copywriting, site design and Web master services can supplement your efforts, and boost your visibility and sales. Viney explains how to assess your current results. He tells you how to make sure your Web page appears among search results in productive positions, but he doesn't overpromise about what you can accomplish. Much of his information is quite detailed and technical, but relatively accessible and applicable -- The Press-Enterprise, June 30, 2008

Product Description

From one of the United Kingdom's leading search engine optimization (S.E.O) experts who has worked with major companies like Amazon.com, the most comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date guide to S.E.O available. Written in a readable style for the beginner, but at the same time comprehensive enough for the skilled marketer, Get to the Top on Google will show businesses, both large and small, how to improve their search engine rankings, leads and sales. Get to the Top on Google is the first book to comprehensively address all aspects of modern day search marketing through a genuinely structured methodology, including an assessment of the impact of Web 2.0 on internet marketing strategies. It includes a seven-step approach to search engine optimization and website promotion, tried and tested tips and tricks to achieve top rankings on Google and other search engines Readers will be benefit from a free 6-month membership to the author s S.E.O Expert Services Thinking of search engine optimization is like cooking a meal. Keywords and key phrases are your ingredients. Discovering phrases that pay is all about finding the right key phrases for your business, then deploying the for best effect in your site and campaign. Courting the crawl explains how to help Google find your pages and index all of them appropriately, through building the right technical foundations and structure for your new or existing website. Priming Your Pages covers the S.E.O art of page copy-writing and includes deploying your phrases that pay through your site and manipulating Google search engine results pages. By landing the links in a well-managed link-building campaign you can go from an also-ran to world champion by establishing both the importance and relevance of your site.