“Blueprint for A Beginner and Some Great Ideas for Pros” is what a reviewer called SEO Help: 20 steps to get your website on Google’s #1 page over at Barnes and Noble. Feedback is vital to authors, particularly when it comes to a practical, non-fiction title like SEO Help, because the success or failure of the title comes in judging just how useful it is in helping webmasters gain the valuable SEO knowledge they really need.

The reviewer here was glowing: “Everyone needs a good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) guide, especially when you are just starting out with building new websites. David Amerland in his new "SEO Help" books provides an easy-to-follow guide to the task of SEO for websites. While he certainly has all the basic ideas covered, do not miss his important tips on such things as how to make best use of pictures or why you should...”.

As an author who has a number of books in the pipeline in a planned practical online success series the fact that the knowledge proved really valuable is exciting in the sense that I know I am actually helping make a difference. Yes, of course, authors write for money. We all do jobs for that reason: nurses, firemen, fighter pilots and street sweepers alike. The difference though, what really fires us up in the morning and gets us through those tough moments when the workload, the pressure or the problems seem to tower above us, is the fact that we do something we really love and we want to actually feel that our toil is not lost upon the world. We really want our patients to get better, the fires to go out, the skies to remain clear of hostiles and the streets to be shining.

Authors feel that very same fire and passion and, for people who are used to getting their thoughts, feelings and ideas on paper, when it comes to articulating it we are usually, unusually shy. There have been a number of very complimentary reviews on SEO Help in Britain and the USA and the book has done well in Canada too (at the time of writing it is at #47 on the Amazon.ca best-seller’s list). For all of these I am exceedingly grateful. I read every review very carefully analysing just how the book was helpful. These and the many emails I receive through here make it easier for me to make sure I write books which provide webmasters with the tools they need to really succeed. The web is a new place still. To me it is a real opportunity we each get to create the world we’d like to live in and for that to happen we really need to, first, succeed.

If you have read SEO Help and you have found it useful, tell someone about it. If you think there are improvements I could make, do let me know. Either way, best of all possible luck and thank you!