MidWeek Book Giveaway: Search Engine Optimization!

by Violet on May 25, 2011

Update: Congrats to our winner, Angie@TheCountryChicCottage!

You hear it all the time: the key to having your work found on the internet is to focus on your search engine optimization. But let’s face it, between creating, photographing, listing, taking care of your home and family, and the myriad of other responsibilities we all have, where’s the time to learn something as big and overwhelming as SEO?

Recently, I referenced that a conversation I’d had about Etsy Stalker made it into a fabulous book on Search Engine Optimization. The authors of that book, Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin of Gravity Search Marketing, have generously offered to give away a copy of their book to one lucky Etsy Stalker reader!

Now in it’s third edition, their up to date book breaks SEO into small, manageable, and most importantly, easily understandable pieces. As the renowned SEO expert Danny Sullivan says in the forward of the book:

“Relax. In this book you have two fantastic personal trainers who will help you get into SEO shape slowly, in an incremental and sustainable manner. Bit by bit, they’ll guide you through the SEO and social media basics and take you forward so that you have a regular exercise routine that gets your SEO into shape ad keeps it that way.”

To enter to win your very own copy of Search Engine Optimization: An Hour A Day, simply leave a comment letting us know what exactly you’d like to learn about SEO. One winner to be chosen at random next Wednesday, June 1st. NOTE: This giveaway is open in the United States and Canada only.

{ 26 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Suzie May 25, 2011 at 4:03 pm: There are a few custom beach writers out there, I’d love to know how to be first when you search custom beach writing!
2 Aliya Hutchison May 25, 2011 at 4:05 pm: I need to learn pretty much everything! I’m a complete gumby in this area and most articles I read presume a level of existing knowledge I don’t have. I’d love to win this book!
3 Mary Konow May 25, 2011 at 5:20 pm: I’d love to learn more about keyword searches and well, everything else! Thanks for the chance to win!
4 Slade May 25, 2011 at 5:38 pm: I need to learn everything. I am in the dark. Good copy is nothing without understanding SEO.
I will chant to win!
5 Bein Cypher May 25, 2011 at 7:03 pm: I need to learn everything about SEO and Etsy and selling online. I’m just getting started!
6 Deanna Mautz May 25, 2011 at 9:26 pm: I have been etching glass for 2 years, and it has gradually grown to the point where I am quitting my day job (school is out next week, and my resignation is submitted) and need all the help I can get to make this venture week.
7 Charlie May 26, 2011 at 4:09 am: All I know is SEO is way over my head. I am not sure why it is so complicated but it seems like black magic. HELP!
8 Meghan Satter May 26, 2011 at 4:25 am: I have a basic understanding of SEO, and I have used it to help drive some traffic to my Etsy shop. However, I would love to delve much further into SEO, and I’m certain this book will help me to do so.
9 Billie Henson May 26, 2011 at 1:50 pm: I would love to win this book because I believe it would help me promote my online jewelry business. I just recently started my website and need all the help I can get with it!!! Thanks for the chance to win it!
10 Leesa Axley May 26, 2011 at 2:59 pm: I would love to know more about being found and increasing visibility on Google and other search engines!
11 Kelvin Lee May 26, 2011 at 7:40 pm: I would like to get more information around how SEM/PPC and SEO can work together.
12 beyonce lace front wigs May 26, 2011 at 11:42 pm: we love you two, you are great, i like SEO, i am just a learner.
13 Michelle S. Hawkins May 27, 2011 at 7:25 pm: I would love to win this book. I could use more sales and I think SEO would go a long way towards this.
14 Amber May 28, 2011 at 2:48 pm: I would LOVE to know how to improve my item titles and tags! This is an awesome giveaway!
15 Kelly Ann Taylor May 29, 2011 at 5:02 pm: I have been delving into this subject, and just realizing how far I need to come!
I would TRULY benefit from this and would promise to use it and pass it on to another company needing the same thing!
Thanks!
16 Nancy May 31, 2011 at 4:59 pm: I would like to know how to be the top search in Google, so please optimize me with this great book giveaway!!!!!!
17 kristin June 1, 2011 at 8:42 am: I would love to know more about anything that can increase the traffic and sales to my shop. This would be a fantastic tool, what a great opportunity!
18 Miriam Schulman June 1, 2011 at 9:15 am: no more starving artists! want this book
19 Angie @ The Country Chic Cottage June 1, 2011 at 9:15 am: I would love to win! I am trying to absorb as much as possible about SEO to help improve my blog and etsy shop!
20 Four20moon June 1, 2011 at 10:07 am: New to the game and any tips would help grow my small tie dye business! Peace
21 Annette Campbell June 1, 2011 at 10:28 am: The handmade jewelry market is very competitive and I need every advantage I can get to make my tiny business successful. I am assuming we are all small businesses here so I send heartfelt blessings to you all!
22 Joan Williams June 1, 2011 at 10:45 am: I’m trying to learn all I can to get more traffic to my Etsy shop. It’s more important now than ever, since I recently became unemployed and am hoping to use this opportunity to take my jewelry beyond just a hobby, and hopefully become someting that will replace at least part of my income. Thanks!
23 Gretchen Paine June 1, 2011 at 11:22 am: Trying to find all the pertinent information on SEO is frustrating. I would imagine having it wrapped up into a nice little package would make it much easier!
24 Cathy June 1, 2011 at 5:00 pm: Hope i’m not too late. I’m clueless about SEO info. I really need this book.
25 Deanna June 2, 2011 at 5:08 am: After seeing this give away, I knew I had to have this book. I downloaded it, and started reading it yesterday. Full of GREAT info. Highly recommend getting this book!
26 Daniel July 31, 2011 at 4:44 am: I read a sample chapter and need to have this book, been learning Copywriting but in order to be effective you need to have a SEO plan.