Best SEO Books for 2012 / 2013 - Books on Search Engine Optimization
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The list author says: "Looking for the best SEO books for 2012 and 2013? For small business and marketers, here are my top recommended books on SEO (Search Engine Optimization). I teach Search Engine Optimization online for the JM Internet Group - just Google 'Jason McDonald' to find me. Many times my students ask - hey Jason, what are the best books on SEO? What books would be top-rated? What SEO books would you recommend? So here's my list. These are my favorite books on search engine optimization. One book is missing - the Google SEO Guide - published for free by Google. Reach out to me and I'll point you to where that one is; it's a freebie, and everyone loves free, no? At any rate, here are my favorite SEO books updated as of October, 2012. If you know of other great, fantastic, top-rated, best books about SEO, Google Marketing, getting to the top of Bing - you get my drift - reach out to me and suggest a book. I review quite a few on Amazon, and am always eager for the latest spin on this perpetually fascinating topic - using SEO to get your small business to the top of Google and Bing. This is my list of my FAVORITE top ten, best SEO search engine optimization books ever, well at least for 2012 and 2013. Got a great book? Email me and perhaps I'll review it, or include it on this list."

1.  Fifty SEO Ideas: Free Tips, Secrets, and Ideas for Search Engine Optimization by Jason McDonald The list author says: "The latest and greatest.  This book gives fifty of the best SEO tips for small business, such as how to use the Google Keyword Tool more effectively, how to optimize a blog post, leverage Google alerts, or where is the Google SEO Guide anyway?  For .99 cents, the price alone should make it one of the best SEO books for 2012!  (October, 2012)." $0.99    (68 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

2.  SEO Fitness Workbook, 2012 Edition: Your Step-by-step Guide to Dominating Google and Bing by Jason McDonald The list author says: "Need a step-by-step guide to SEO?  My goals are to help the average business person or marketer with a simple, step-by-step guide to SEO.  The 2012 edition includes free access to my SEO Toolbook, with links to over 100 amazing free SEO tools available on the Internet.  (February, 2011)" $45.00   Used & New from: $40.76    (127 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

3.  Search Engine Optimization For Dummies by Peter Kent The list author says: "My favorite SEO book by another author.  Short, sweet, simple - one of the best SEO books of 2012.  Highly recommended.  (July, 2012)." $17.48   Used & New from: $13.48    (1 customer review) Create your own Listmania! with this product

4.  SEO For 2012: Search Engine Optimization Secrets by Sean Odom The list author says: "If you are interested in Panda, Penguin or even the new EMD update, this book has among the best coverage of those esoteric changes.  What's nice is it isn't a book just for experts.  The authors provide a nice up-to-date overview of SEO in this 2012 guide." $16.17   Used & New from: $14.34    (5 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

5.  Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics by Brian Clifton The list author says: "Google Analytics is arguably the top free metrics platform.  Learn how people get to your website, and what they do.  This book is an in-depth, hands-on guide to an increasingly important yet hard-to-use platform: Google Analytics.  April, 2012." $21.85   Used & New from: $20.88    (17 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

6.  The Art of SEO by Stephan Spencer The list author says: "This is the best SEO book and the worst SEO book at the same time.  The best: for very serious SEOers, as it has unbelievable details and is written by the cognoscenti of SEO.  The worst: for your average business person or marketer, it will be too confusing, too "in the weeds" when what is required is a clear, concise DO THIS NOT THIS type of guide." $38.51   Used & New from: $34.40    (8 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

7.  SEO for Google Places - The Secret to Crushing Your Competition with Local SEO and Google Places by James Dreesen The list author says: "Local SEO is hugely important for many businesses.  If you are a roofing company, an attorney, or even a cake maker, you need to understand Google+ local (formerly Googel Places) as well as local SEO.  This book is a one of the best books on Google Places / Google+ Local, and a good place to start, although getting out-of-date." $4.97    (7 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

8.  Search Engine Optimization (SEO): An Hour a Day by Jennifer Grappone The list author says: "Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin have written a solid, introductory text to Search Engine Optimization.  The idea of an 'hour a day' is critical - SEO is like physical fitness: slow and steady wins the race." $17.88   Used & New from: $12.68    (18 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

9.  Outrank Your Competition: 50 Online Marketing and SEO Tips for Small Businesses- Learn How to Get More Traffic, Get More Business and Get More Customers by Marc Menninger The list author says: "Lists and lists and lists of great things to do to improve your rank on Google and Bing.  SEO is all about details, and a book of lists makes my list of the top ten SEO books.  Why?  Because the devil is in the detail.  This book isn't the best written book, but it has TONS of great ideas." $24.95    (9 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

10.  Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Secrets by Danny Dover The list author says: "Danny Dover has written a book on SEO, more for experts than for the average business owner.  So I recommend that you get this book, only after you have read and digested the introductory texts like my own or Peter Kent's.  At that point, you are ready for some esoterica, and Dover's book is one of the best books on SEO to start moving up from practitioner to expert." $21.53   Used & New from: $14.14    (26 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product