Comments on: Learn How to Rank Highly in Search Engines – SEO Secrets

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:59:29 +0000

Looks like this book will be worth investing. I really need some useful infos regarding SEO.

By: Alex Wrobel

Alex Wrobel — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:21:02 +0000

Great info. Truly one of the best straightforward advice that I have seen for SEO. Definitely a must read for people wanting more info on the subject.

By: Cierra

Cierra — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:46:20 +0000

Is there a way to locate someone locally to try this?

By: Equipment Leasing

Equipment Leasing — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:19:43 +0000

I’ve been following your updates on Twitter and I’m very happy with the content on the blog. SEO is constantly evolving and will continue to do so. I think what everyone needs to remember is that QUALITY content is the first step to dominating the SERP’s.

By: Matt - Make Money Online

Matt - Make Money Online — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:08:49 +0000

A lot of people will pay for PPC or a great design of their blog, however it is very important to also invest your marketing dollars into SEO work. SEO is key to ranking and getting good quality traffic. Great article Darren. Thanks for sharing another great resource.

By: Cheap Ipods

Cheap Ipods — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:15:48 +0000

I like the book and will use some of the methods.

By: Unesco.my

Unesco.my — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:11:28 +0000

Definitely will get this ebook very soon.

@paul – stay with white hat if you’re making long money.

regards,

unesco.my
http://www.unesco.my

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:56:34 +0000

@Chris, there isn’t anything I’ve seen in Glenn’s book that comes close to the sorts of things Google adjusts their algorithm to combat. The book is *very* “white hat SEO”.

By: Glenn Murray

Glenn Murray — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:57:58 +0000

It’s certainly true that the algos change constantly. But they’re usually quite small changes, that have minimal impact on the core of SEO.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:42:03 +0000

With the way Google (for example) changes its algorithms to stay ahead of people manipulating results, don’t you worry that material like this has a relatively short shelf-life?

By: SEO Tips

SEO Tips — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:32:41 +0000

Looks like an excellent read might be worth investing into this one.
Thanks

By: Chaunna Brooke

Chaunna Brooke — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:46:40 +0000

With these information at hand it is easier for me to know the SEO world and would be able to produce more profit in such sense besides that is what our goal is, to produce a lot of it and your blog is such a great help. Thanks.

By: Rizwan

Rizwan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:56:57 +0000

these may be useful but i hate this type of paying content.

By: Honey Singh

Honey Singh — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:27:57 +0000

A great review Dareen.
This is my personal opinion then we should promote unbiased reviews in our blogs.Glenn Murray had a great book as i found while searching his blogs and twitter timeline.
Definitely Dareen knows what he is doing as it not just about a review, all that matter is feeding the viewers with a resource full contents.

By: NeoTechie

NeoTechie — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:00:12 +0000

I recently read an article in Business Week that stated the SEO jobs are on the raise despite massive layoffs in the USA. Mastering SEO has much more benefits than being on Google’s # 1 spot.
Knowledge is power.

Thanks Glenn for your great insight.

By: Glenn Murray

Glenn Murray — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:39:09 +0000

Wow! Heaps of comments overnight. Thanks for taking the time, everyone, to have your say!

I’ll answer some of the criticisms, if I can:

- Chris: You’re absolutely right, SEO is just one factor. No questions asked. But it’s definitely played a big part in my success. I’ve had to spend nothing on advertising, and business has come to me, so I haven’t had to chase it. In regards to being the “#1 ad writer in Sydney”, that I surely am NOT. Although I do offer ad copywriting, web, brochure, SEO, case study and sales letter copywriting is my strength. And I’ve never claimed to be Sydney’s no.1 anything. I’ve only claimed what you can verify for yourself: that I rank no.1 on for “advertising copywriter” on Google.com.au (whether your search worldwide or just Australian pages). And I rank no.4 if you search Google.com for the same thing from within Australia. As to my revenue, I’m a little confused as to how that plays a part here?

– Anderson: You’ve obviously been burned by some bad ebooks in the past. Me too. That’s why I have full confidence in this one. I know it’s not the usual fluff. But I completely understand if you’re uncomfortable with ebooks, generally. As a rule, I am too.

– Blogging Tips & frugalgrad: If you already know everything about SEO, this book certainly isn’t for you. It’s not ground-breaking, it’s just comprehensive, practical and easy to understand. As Darren mentioned in his review, it wasn’t written for the SEO expert. It targets SMB owners and marketers. I think it’s fair to say that most SMB owners and marketers don’t know most of the tricks of SEO.

Thanks again for taking the time to comment (both positive and negative).

Cheers,
Glenn

By: Dean Saliba

Dean Saliba — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:14:59 +0000

A bit out of my price range I’m afraid.

Good review of it though. :)

By: Angie Haggstrom

Angie Haggstrom — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:00:36 +0000

@Chris

You are spot on when you mention that being an ‘SEO expert’ as you say is only one important part of online business. Customer relations, accounting, marketing, and many others are equally if not more important.

However, SEO is also one that is filled with myths and unknown facts. Many SEOs don’t even agree on many points. This makes it very difficult to find good, comprehensive resources.

With all do respect kind sir, being #1 in Google has nothing to do with earnings or the quality of a company. The last time I checked, my tax returns are not filed with Google. Also, many excellent companies and service providers would not be struggling with the online promotion portion of their marketing plans.

Spammers, scraper sites, and even unrelated YouTube videos can sit high in the rankings. If Google was that good at judging quality, they wouldn’t tweak their algos consistently in order to provide better results, and be playing with the concept of personalized search.

FYI, the proof of Glenn’s work can be found easily by asking any of the companies and individuals he as worked with. You simply have to look at his portfolio. I don’t buy anything or put my name behind anything I haven’t used and benefited myself.

By: axel g

axel g — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:24:51 +0000

The seo skills I’ve picked up in the last year really drives traffic to my site. The beautiful thing is that once you’ve set it up properly, it takes care of itself.

As you know, It’s time consuming to get traffic from social sites, which makes it easy to appreciate search engine traffic +_+

By: frugalgrad

frugalgrad — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:04:07 +0000

So this is another SEO book. If SEO is climbing the evolutionary ladder and most of the free information available seems to be somewhat outdated ( and really overwhelming) that I kind of stop hunting for these kind of information. The article is really friendly and convincing but what’s in here that’s not already out there.