Search engine books

Worth getting?

[meester]

Is it worth buying search engine books? The 2 I have are both useless to me now. One from 1997 and one from 2000. This is a big gap in the SE world. Info in books is (generally) more reliable, but it dates too quickly to justify a $200 price tag.

Any thoughts on this please. Is there a resource I'm missing?

meester.

[EliteWeb]

I like books, They are most definitly a wonderful resource but what I have found over time is this site is more valuable than a book because I got past the basic introductuary stuff.

This search brought up a few sites on Google [google.com ]

Some of the books are very pricy!

[angiolo]

They are useful as is useful any history book...

Maybe some electronic books are useful if monthly upgraded (at least).

You can print any forum argument here.

Print it and read it in your preferred way.

[meester]

Pricy is a problem - especially for those outside the US - people like me who's currency is trading @ 1:11 to the US dollar.

Even so, I'd pay $1K for a book that I could use for 10 years. You could rephrase that as $100 per year for a regularly updated book - or $8.30/month.

My point is that we need an authorative, fresh, affordable resource. This site is fresh, printable and cool, but nitwits are free to give misleading advice.

Books. Regularly updated books. Order. That's what this industry needs.

What I need is the name of such a book - or the time to write one myself :-)

[agerhart]

My point is that we need an authorative, fresh, affordable resource.

No book is going to be fresh and up to date. It takes too long for it to be published and all of that jazz.

The freshest source of information that you are going to find is right here on the Internet and almost always right here at WebmasterWorld. The information that is released here is always days, weeks, and months, ahead of almost all other sites and publications.

[seth_wilde]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Meester

You might want to check out Planet Ocean [searchengine-news.com]. They have a SEO e-book that's updated regulary.

"but nitwits are free to give misleading advice"

The great thing about WebmasterWorld is that you have some of the best SEO's in the industry as well as SE Reps as members to shoot down any misleading advice...

[Mike_Mackin]

Welcome meester:

I have a friend in SA that might mentor you after you have spent time here READING.

[volatilegx]

>"but nitwits are free to give misleading advice"

>The great thing about WebmasterWorld is that you have some of the best SEO's in the industry as well as SE Reps as members to shoot down any misleading advice...

seth_wilde, there are plenty of nitwits like me here, too ;)

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[Marcia]

>This site is fresh, printable and cool, but nitwits are free to give misleading advice.

But at least the nitwits here are fresh, printable and cool. Not so with some of the nitwits out there who write and sell books. Some of those nitwits out there are also banned from search engines for hanky panky, which they then teach others to do. And there's no one to argue with them either, so right or wrong, what you see is what you get. For better or worse.

[miles]

meester the worst part of SEO is trying to find up to date info. A few months back I got a SEO book, proof read it, and half of the info was already outdated. By the time it hit the shelf 4 engines were out of business and others had switched where they get their info from. The best place to go is to those of us who are in the trenches every day, not the "EXPERTS" that put an out dated news letter, by 2 months once a month. Stick around and get up to the day updates.

[feeder]

I've read a few search engine books. They are good for the basics. And for using as doorstops.

But up-to-date information is what you really need.

I've got a few paid web subscriptions, however by far the best source of SEO information is www.webmasterworld.com. No joke.

[NFFC]

It's all here, sometimes you need to sort the wheat from the chaf, but it's all here....

Take a look [back in time!], startup's post in particular;

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