Interesting.
To myself. I bought this book for
airplane reading when I flew back to Taiwan. I ended up not reading this book on the
airplane… Well, I wanted to. So, I bought this book at FULL PRICE (along
with 2 other). That is something I do very rarely these days. 1. Because I get discount notices, and 2. I
have a huge backlog of books I haven’t read yet.
Yet, I paid full price. I think what happened was the great marketing
caught me off guard:
#1. Cute girl cover. It wasn’t until I actually finished the book
that I found out the author was ADAM. For
the longest time I thought the author was on the cover page. Ma bad.
#2. Clean title.
Technology is moving at a rate so fast that “none-insiders” have a
really hard time grasping and understanding. A lot of programming languages,
online/e-commerce best practices, even strategies to run online stores are constantly
changing. Many “best practices” just a
few years ago are completely obsolete. By
having “2017” in the title so early in the year (Q1 when I bought it?) gave an
impression of the author staying on top of the game.
Now having read it… I guess it was a fair and solid overview of
SEO in general. There’s a lot about SEO
I don’t, but having read other books, I don’t think this book added anything “deep.” The book is fairly comprehensive on “entry
level SEO.” I say that because I have no
idea what intermediary and advanced level is. Or maybe, this is all of it. I just kind of doubt it.
Recently, there seems to be a new style of
writing a book where you compile a million resources and cram them in the book.
There are TONS of links to other sites
and resources. The author even gives a
quick overview of the good and bad and services provided by these sites… I get that there’s some value in that. But I wanted a book to read so I didn’t have
to go elsewhere. So, while it feels like
the book contained a lot of “extra information” because it pointed to a lot of
tools and added a lot of value… The same
time it really didn’t. I have pages of
links in my notes… They won’t do me any
good. If I were to go to those links to
learn… Why by this book in the first
place?
And now I don’t know what to say anymore…
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