Building Findable Websites
Building Findable Websites by Arron Walter is one of the best books I’ve read on the subject of SEO, web standards and accessibility in the world of code.
Aimed specifically to developers, Building Findable Websites is 264 pages based on several topics. This isn’t a regular SEO book, but teaches “findability” through good coding practices, including best practices for Flash, Javascript and AJAX. It also includes basic SEO information on keywords in titles, alts and density.
I skipped over a few sections because it included basic information I already knew or beginners info on things like using Feedburner, but I still found a ton of relevant material to keep me interested.
The book has a ton of resources and code examples and even gives access to several bonus chapters on online.
You can find Building Findable Websites on Amazon for $30.
About the author
Amber Weinberg specializes in clean and semantic XHTML, CSS and WordPress development. She has over 10 years of coding experience and is pretty cool to work with. Amber is available for freelance work, so why not hire her for your next project?
Great tip to read! I will have to check into this, my main goal when building sites is please the client and make it search engine friendly! Thanks for the book tip!
Hi Amber,
Thanks for the tip. Can you share one of book’s idea which you liked as sample..
I liked the whole section on semantics and usability. Don’t really agree on putting your logo in your H1 tag, but other than that, it’s a great book.
I found used one for $16, I think it worth for..
thanks again..
Wow, this looks like it might be something I should be looking into. Thanks Amber : )
Thanks for sharing this, Amber. When I code the very first thing I think about is findability, and that leads me to write the cleanest code I possibly can.
And I’m going to have to pick up this book. It looks like a one-stop-shop for accessibility, coding, and SEO =]
Looks like a quick read, and $30 isn’t bad at all (college made me so accustomed to paying three-digits for books). I’ll pick this one up.
I’ve read this book, it’s pretty good. Has a lot of good tips from compressing static content to best practices in coding. It even has a section on WordPress.