I enjoy reading books about SEO and the ins and outs of Google and Get to the top on Google has been recommended to me many times so I decided to give it a try. David Viney tries to describe this as a seven step process that includes:-

1. Phrases that pay
2. Courting the crawl
3. Priming your pages
4. Landing the links
5. Paying for position
6. Making the map
7. Tracking and tuning

I think the approach he has taken here is very methodical and it really does give you a very good insight into the process. The book kinda does feel tutorial in nature and you can almost apply the techniques as you move through the book.

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Towards the start of the book you are given links to a special forum that David has and for which he gives you a code in the book for six months free access. I thought this gave the book massive added value and was putting this in my very small pile of must have and must keep books.

To be fair though, the forum is pretty poor and i didn’t find many examples of where David was actually contributing by answering people’s questions etc and there did seem to be a fair few negative comments on that very subject as well. I think it’s a real shame as the book offers so much but even some of the links didn’t work either so it does lose a bit of it’s appeal.

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