Foreword
  Preface
  1 Search: Reflection Consciousness and Connecting Commerce
  The Mission of Search Engines
  The Market Share of Search Engines
  The Human Goals of Searching
  Who Searches and What Do They Search For?
  Determining Searcher Intent: A Challenge for Search Marketers and Search Engines
  Navigational Queries
  Informational Queries
  Transactional Queries
  Adaptive Search
  Searcher Intent
  How People Search
  How Search Engines Drive Ecommerce
  The Mobile Shift
  The History of Eye Tracking: How Users Scan Results Pages
  Click Tracking: How Users Click on Results (Organic Versus Paid)
  Distribution of Search Results and Traffic
  Conclusion
  2 Search Engine Basics
  Understanding Search Engine Results
  Understanding the Jayout of Search Results Pages
  Understanding How Vertical Results Fit into the SERPs
  Google's Knowledge Graph
  Algorithm-Based Ranking Systems: Crawling, Indexing, and Ranking
  Crawling and Indexing
  Retrieval and Ranking
  Evaluating Content on a Web Page
  Understanding What Content Search Engines Can"See on a Web Page
  Determining Searcher Intent and Delivering Relevant, Fresh Content
  Document Analysis and Semantic Conneaivity
  Content Quality and User Engagement
  Link Analysis
  Evaluating Soaal Media Signals
  Problem Words, Disambiguation, and Diversity
  Why These Algorithms Sometimes Fail
  The Knowledge Graph
  Analyzing Ranking Factors
  Negative Ranking Faaors
  Other Ranking Faaors
  Using Advanced Search Techniques
  Advanced Google Search Operators
  Bing Advanced Search Operators
  More Advanced Search Operator Techniques
  Vertical Search Engines
  Vefflcal Search from the Major Search Engines
  Universal Search/Blended Search
  Country-Speafic Search Engines
  Optimizing for Speafic Countries
  Conclusion
  3 SEO Planning: Customizing Your Strategy
  Strategic Goals SEO Practitioners Can Fulfill Visibility (Branding)
  Website Traffic
  High Retum on Investment
  Every SEO Strategy Should Be Custorruzed
  Understanding Search Engine Traffic and Visitor Intent
  Developing an SEO Plan Prior to Site Development
  Business Faaors That Impaa Your SEO Strategy
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  4 SEO Implementation: First Stages
  5 Keyword Research
  6 Developing an SEO-Friendly Website
  7 Content Marketing
  8 How Social Media and User Data Play a Role in Search Results and Rankings
  9 Panda, Penguin, and Penalties
  10 Mobde, Local, and Vertical SEO
  11 Tracking Results and Measuring Success
  12 Domain Changes, Redesigns, and Troubleshooting
  13 SEO Education and Research
  14 SEO Support: In-House, External, or Both?
  15 An EvoMng Art Form: The Future of SEO
  Glossary
  Index