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10 Books to Read to Sharpen Your SEO Skills

There are hundreds of SEO articles all over the Web, but sometimes if you really want to learn more, the best way is to grab a great SEO book, settle down in your favorite chair and dig in. Here are the top 10 books on SEO that we recommend:
The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization
by Eric Enge, Stephen Spencer, Rand Fishkin and Jessica Stricchiolia
This is one of the most talked about and detailed books on SEO right now. The authors are all industry experts, so you know its 500 pages are full of solid and tested SEO theories and tactics.
SEO Fitness Workbook
by Jason McDonald
If you want to take an SEO class from home, this is one of your best options. McDonald is a great SEO teacher, and this workbook is full of worksheets and SEO tools that will help you guide your company to the top of Google.
Search Engine Optimization Secrets
by Danny Dover and Erik Dafforn
This book is written by the former head of SEO at SEOmoz, so it’s packed with more advanced SEO tactics that are used by some of the best SEO professionals in the industry.
The Link Building Book
by Paddy Moogan
For everyone from SEO beginners to advanced SEO gurus, this book has link building ideas for everyone. It has great tips for how to build a strong link-building campaign for your company and how to maintain it.
Conversation Marketing: Internet Marketing Strategies
by Ian Lurie
As you read this book, you feel like you are having an entertaining chat with a helpful friend who knows everything about SEO. Through his short and sweet book, Lurie helps you see Internet marketing in a new way and find SEO strategies that really work.
Own Your Own Niche
by Stephanie Chandler
If you are in a niche industry, this book will help you make the most of it. You will learn not only SEO secrets for your inbound marketing campaign, but also how to tie in all the other facets of online marketing.
Marketing in the Age of Google
by Vanessa Fox
This book is by Vanessa Fox, who created Google Webmaster Central. She explains through her Google perspective about how search rankings work and how to use search to better understand your customers, so you can have more conversions.
50 SEO Ideas: Free Tips, Secrets and Ideas for Search Engine Optimization
by Jason McDonald
Instead of filling your head with technical SEO jargon, this book gives you 50 practical ways of applying SEO to attract new customers to your business.
SEO for Content Writers and PR Pros
by Phil Bryne
The best online marketing strategies are now content-based, but content writers can’t leave SEO behind. This author has been in the marketing game for more than 15 years and shows how search engine rankings now favor good writing and how to use that to your advantage.
SEO Made Simple
by Michael Fleischner
This is one of the leading SEO books of the day and helps you get ahead of any of Google’s updates, so you can keep moving to the top of search engine results.
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