Product Description

On the Internet, if you're not read, you're dead. Written by an internationally-acclaimed specialist in this field, Killer Web Content gives you the strategies and practical techniques you need to get the very best out of your Web content. Accessible, concise and practical, it will make your website really work for you. This book helps readers to: * provide visitors to their website with the right content at just the right time * write compelling Web content that users really respond to and want more of * make sure their website has the best possible chance of getting into the first page of search results * understand the benefits of blogs, RSS, and e-mail newsletters Web content is an increasingly important asset. It helps sell products and deliver services. From travel companies to software companies, from universities to governments, it's something that has to be got right.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #218901 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
"Content - not fancy graphics - sells your product on your website. Read this book and apply it. We did". Maurice Coleman, Head of Commercial Strategy, Aer Lingus "Gerry McGovern's "Killer Web Content" is a must read for marketing and communications professionals who crave the ultimate results for their online presence. Not only is "Killer Web Content" educational and informational, it's an entertaining and useful collection of tips and techniques where you'll find both insight and inspiration to create web sites that talk to your audience in a language they want to hear." Karen O'Brien, Siemens Corporation. Manager, Web Content "An easy read and I would recommend it as a helpful guide for anyone who wishes to conduct a critical audit of their internet presence... A sleeves-rolled-up, helpful book that tells you that a website is a specialised publication that requires just as much editorial care as a newspaper or magazine. Financial World (December 2006) 'This short, sparky primer uncovers value in a neglected business asset.' Director (January 2007)

Maurice Coleman, Head of Commercial Strategy, Aer Lingus
"Content--not fancy graphics--sells your product on your website.
Read this book and apply it. We did".

Karen O'Brien, Siemens Corporation. Manager, Web Content
"Gerry McGovern's "Killer Web Content" is a must read for
marketing and communications professionals who crave the ultimate results
for their online presence. Not only is "Killer Web Content" educational
and informational, it's an entertaining and useful collection of tips and
techniques where you'll find both insight and inspiration to create web
sites that talk to your audience in a language they want to hear."

Customer Reviews

More killer and less filler please
I found this book to be quite poor. I bought it based on the recommendation of Amazon readers (most gave the book 5 stars). The problem I found was that the book talks about writing killer content (and not filler content), but the book itself is guilty of this as it contains loads of filler content and hardly any "killer" content (i.e. what I bought the book for in the first place).

Warning, Nothing New here
Unfortunately the only good about this book is the title which made me buy it. Its very academic and brings nothing new to the table, the first half of the book is mostly about how important "killer" web content seems like he is marketing himself and the industry more than giving practical advice. The second half i supposed to be more practical, but in my opinion it fails again to provide simple and practical useful tips that can be put in action. Its very academic and it seems this guy has little hands on experience in the actual field.

The best thing about this book is the title, if i was you i would have chosen to invest my cash elsewhere.

Practical guidance on the hard work of good content
Gerry has a blog with sensible views on web marketing and his new book "Killer Web Content" focuses precisely on the important feature of web sites. OK, there are a few basic hygiene factors for web sites such as page title and seeded related key words, but really the whole point is content and how it is delivered to meet the needs of the visitor to the page. He tells you 'less is more', i.e. cut the filler. Switch the focus away from your own PR to what the customer wants: "Your customers have a small set of words that summarize what they care about. Find those words, and you're half way to success". Larry English, the Data Quality expert, would support Gerry on why you need to replace the generic term 'users' with more precise role names.

Gerry's book is full of direct, no-nonsense advice. He tells you as much what to stop doing as what to do. Writing about the words that customers care about, he gives you practical tools and plans to do this. Of course, he covers blogs, search engine behaviour, quotes from real life case studies, and mercilessly analyses real web sites. It's good, I'm glad I bought it.