by Bradley Spencer

Best SEO Analogy Wins: “Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP”

On September 12, 2008 at 7:39 pm

seo with phpHey fellow SEO Professionals and everyone interested in getting results in the Search Engine Game.  This is the first contest here on BradleySpencer.com, and if it goes well then maybe we’ll make it a regular thing…

What You Win: One copy of Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP: A developer’s guide by Jaimie Sirovich and Cristian Darie.  This is an amazing book that will teach everyone a thing or two about what happens behind the scenes in PHP-Driven websites and CMS’s.  Get your php chops by reading and knowing all 360 pages of this beast.  Also great for making you look smart at the coffee shops or when clients drop by the office…

Here’s an excerpt from Amazon about what you’ll learn from this book:

What you will learn from this book:

  • Understand the criteria that influence search engine rankings
  • Create keyword-rich URLs using PHP, Apache, and mod_rewrite
  • Use HTTP Headers to properly indicate the status of web documents
  • Create optimized content and cope with duplicate content effectively
  • Avoid being the victim of black hat SEO techniques
  • Understand and implement geo-targeting and cloaking
  • Use site maps effectively—for users as well as search engines
  • Create a search engine–friendly WordPress blog
  • Build a search engine–friendly e-commerce catalog

Yes, this awesome book will be shipped to your doorstep without so much as one penny coming out of your pocket.

What You’ve Got to Do to Win:  Does anybody else constantly search for the best SEO Analogy to use with their clients?  Especially clients who really need SEO, but just can’t quite understand exactly what you’re going to do?

I search for that Analogy every day.

There have been plenty of attempts in the past to nail down the best SEO Analogy, and I just haven’t read one yet that really sums it up.  So it’s up to all of you SEO Professionals out there to once and for all decide the best SEO Analogy for 2008.  What’s it going to be?  Leave your name, website, and Analogy in the comments below, and you just might win the Professional SEO with PHP book!

How Can I Play if I’m not an SEO Professional?   You deserve the chance to win too.  So if you are (or have been) an SEO client in the past, or just love SEO, tell us the WORST SEO analogy you’ve heard along the way.  It’s is insane, terrible, and just ugly enough… you could win too!

So everybody leave your best SEO Analogy (or Worst SEO Analogy if you’re not an SEO Professional) and start salivating at the chance of getting your hands on this AMAZING book.

Thanks, Brad

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  1. Thank you I knew some of these SEO tips but i picked up a few i didnt.

  2. [...] Spencer is holding a contest where the best analogy wins. I smell some link bait. Well, at least it worked on me These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can [...]

  3. My interaction with a small business (SM) client who is frustrated with a company that overcharged them for a website:

    SM: “I spent $15K on a website and I haven’t gotten any leads. The stats show that I barely get any traffic.”

    Me: “You need some SEO”

    SM: “What’s that?”

    Me: (analogy) “Consider your website a giant billboard (like the ones next to the highway) and SEO is the location where you place your billboard. You can spend $15K or all the money you want for sweet “looking” billboard (website), but if it’s placed out in the middle of the forest (no SEO), nobody’s going to find it. Good SEO will place your billboard at a high traffic intersection or highway. People will begin to take notice.”

    SM: “Ahhhh”

  4. While it is not something I would present to a client, I linked to one of my analogies with my name.

  5. [...] Give your favorite Analogy for SEO and win a free "Seo for PHP" book… comment here: http://www.bradleyspencer.com/archives/127 2008-09-27 16:39:30 · Reply · View seowordpress: leave your favorite SEO Analog [...]

  6. [...] Spencer is holding a contest where the best analogy wins a free copy of my book. I smell some link bait. Well, at least it worked on [...]

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