Review of draft book chapter needed

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emmajane's picture

I'm in the mad dash to the finish on my new book, "Drupal: A User's Guide." I have an entire chapter dedicated to Search Engine Optimization. I'm an author so I like to pretend it's a pretty awesome chapter (it helps me sleep at night). I could really use a second or fourth set of eyes on the content though. The book is D7 and the chapter includes 20 or so Drupal modules as well as another 20 non-Drupal resources. If you have some time to review the chapter over the next week I'd really appreciate it.

Please leave a comment here and I'll get in touch with you via the gdo contact form, or just ping me directly (gdo contact form). It's in MS Word format because that's the way my publisher likes it.

thanks :)

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glad to read through and comment where I can

jessebeach's picture

I've at least had to consider SEO more than casually when coding. Plus I'm really interested in Drupal as an SEO leading platform.

glad to read through and comment where I can

jessebeach's picture

I've at least had to consider SEO more than casually when coding. Plus I'm really interested in Drupal as an SEO leading platform.

I'd love to help, Emma!

Techivist's picture

Loved all your books so far & your presentation @SCALE this year. I've been doing SEO consulting since the spiders at Google started crawling. More useful to you might be that having an extensive background in software testing has had me proofread many technical docs. I also love writing & have an as-yet-to-be-published book for "tweens" that I hope to finish by the end of the year (fantasy adventure genre). Lastly, I'm a contributor/blogger for http://linuxjournal.com.

/end sales pitch ;)

Miguel Hernandez - www.migshouse.com
Founder & CEO - The OpenMindz Group
Writer- Linux Journal & TechZulu

I can help

TomDude48's picture

Emma, I would be more than happy to help.

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Emma, I'd love to help

Dave Reid's picture

Emma, I'd love to help review. There's probably a good chance that I (co)maintain several of the modules you mention in the chapter. :)

Senior Drupal Developer for Lullabot | www.davereid.net | @davereid

would love to see your chapter

Maryh's picture

Hi Emma,

I'm publications director at an educational organization that does a lot of web publishing. We're planning to use Drupal on a new project and one of our concerns is search optimization. We have an existing non-Drupal website (not affected by the new project) but it has made us understand the critical nature of search.

I'd love to see your chapter and would be glad to comment (or get some comments from our technical people).

How could I get a copy?

Thanks -- Mary Hiniker

Hey Mary, Not to step on

Ben Finklea's picture

Hey Mary,
Not to step on Emma's toes (you should definitely check out her book) but if seo is your concern, please allow me to share 2 free chapters of my book titled Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization. I usually only give them to people who've attended one of our webinars but go for it:

http://www.volacci.com/webinar

Cheers,

--Ben Finklea

book chapter

emmajane's picture

Mary,

Thanks for your interest. Unfortunately that chapter is beyond the point of needing additional reviewers--and it focuses on Drupal 7 which is not released yet. I highly recommend that you take up Ben on his offer.

If you'd still like to read my chapter it should be available shortly from: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780132160995 (let me know if that link doesn't work for you -- I don't see anything in there that looks like a session ID though).