This is not another SEO book written for marketing professionals. Between these covers you’ll find practical advice and examples for people who build websites aiming to reach their target audience. Each chapter will introduce you to best practices and fresh perspectives on how to accomplish these simple, yet indispensable goals:
- Help more people find your site
- Help users find content within your site
The path this book travels through the villages of Web standards, accessibility, and contemporary technologies like Ajax, APIs, Flash, and microformats. You’ll find the big ideas behind these technologies and real world examples, illustrating that you don’t have to compromise the user experience to create search engine friendly, findable websites.
Although this book illuminates a broad range of findability strategies, one common theme pervades:
Web standards + compelling content = improved findability = more successful sites
You’ll find even more findability guidance on the book’s companion website (http://buildingfindablewebsites.com) including 5 bonus chapters. |
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 A remarkably well-designed textbook. |
| Review Date: July 10, 2010 |
| Reviewer: benrush, dallas, tx United States |
I'm a graphic designer with a background primarily in print design.
This is one of the first books on SEO I've read, so its hard to compare to others. But I found the book to be very readable, informative and packed full of useful tips that I will be able to apply to my next web project.
It's well-written and well-edited. Obviously, a great deal of thought went into decided what to include and (just as importantly) what to exclude. And though the subject is technical, the language never went over my head.
But what impressed me most about this book was the design. It's rare to find a technical intruction book that puts so much thought into the layout, the information hierarchy, the typography and the other design tools that help the reader navigate through the page, find the information they need, and better understand how one piece of text fits into the larger context.
I'm impressed. |
Quick informative read
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| Review Date: May 17, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Adam Gagnon, |
As far as text books go this was quick to get through and easy to digest. There are plenty of practical tips that can be added to any website instantly as well as a good amount of solid general information.
As with most books on the internet some parts are slowly creeping out of date. The good far outweighs the bad so for the money it's a good buy. |
Essential techniques for Findability
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| Review Date: January 27, 2010 |
| Reviewer: T. Suliman, |
| Mr. Walter really understands IA, UX, and Findability. The book is well-written and not overly theoretical. There are practical, easy-to-follow examples with the underlying rationale. From the first time I started reading it, I got stuff I could use at work. Highly recommended! |
Finally! An extrememly useful reference book for today's web designer and developer
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| Review Date: November 22, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Taylor Mickle, Copake, NY |
| I first downloaded the 5 bonus chapters ([...]) and was hooked on Aarron Walter's clear writing, code, links and organization of his chapters. Since I picked it up, I haven't put it down. It has clarified previously mystifying concepts such as mod_rewrite, 301 redirects, 404 pages, and microformats -- and I'm only on page 80. For anyone interested in improving their current site or creating a new one from scratch, you MUST get this book. If you want people to find your site (finability), use web standards the correct way, and get SEO under your belt, I highly recommend this book. Taylor / [...] |
Excellent book full of practical, usable advice
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| Review Date: September 23, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Nora Brown, Boston, MA, USA |
Building Findable Websites: Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond by Aaron Walter is the best web development book I've read in a long time. It is densely packed with actionable advice for improving the "findability" of your site, and in so doing, improve the usability, readability, speed, and manageability of your site. Findability is a broader concept than simply SEO. It is helping people find your site, helping people navigate your site and retrieve the information/action they want from it, and encouraging people to return to your site.
Walter covers a wide range of areas you can work on to improve the findability of your site, from the importance of quality content with strategically placed keywords, using semantic markup with clear hierarchies, server-side strategies such as friendly urls, rss and email subscriptions, etc.
I heartily recommend this book to not just web designers and developers, but also website owners and managers and web content writers. |
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