Search Engine Marketing veteran and search engine optimization guru Dan Thies, along with SitePoint.com, has just released 'The Search Engine Marketing Kit', a complete guide to search engine marketing success. This in-depth kit allows freelance web developers & web development firms, as well as website owners & managers to stay ahead in the search marketing game. The “Fast-track search engine marketing strategies” will soon become an industry-leading, very sought-after, valuable resource.

"There's so much junk being written about Search Engine Optimization and Marketing, we felt that someone needed to set the industry straight," said SitePoint CEO and Co-founder Mark Harbottle. "Dan Thies is an expert in this field. The advice he gives readers and the techniques he endorses in 'The Search Engine Marketing Kit' are not only a road-map for success: they're considered best practice by many in this extremely complex marketplace."

The "Search Engine Marketing Kit" allows you to learn best-practice strategies to maximize traffic, discover keyword strategies you won't find anywhere else, and find out the best ways to optimize pages and build links. Other important issues that are covered include how to:

* Avoid getting banned from search engines.

* Work around obstacles such as Flash, content management systems, and server issues.

* Create, optimize and manage advanced pay-per-click campaigns.

The “Fast-track search engine marketing strategies” kit includes $150 in free traffic from Overture, Google and FindWhat.com. The kit also includes a section that teaches you how to sell professional search engine marketing services. According to the SitePoint.com website, "By offering search engine marketing services to your Web design clients you'll not only be able to generate additional income, you'll also become much more valuable to your clients and prospects. By not only delivering Websites but traffic, leads and sales, the potential value of all your Web design projects will go through the roof...The "Search Engine Marketing Kit" will show you not only how to create optimized Websites, but also step-by-step how to market, present, and price your search engine services.

SitePoint.com is an online magazine and book publisher for professional Web Developers, Freelancers and Web Design Firms. The SitePoint.com Website reaches 1.2 million unique visitors per month.

Dan Thies is a member of the Executive Committee of SeoPros, the Organization of Search Engine Optimization Professionals; a membership committee member and volunteer for SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization); a member of the Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association (DFWSEM); and a frequent speaker at JupiterMedia’s “Search Engine Strategies” conferences.

Dan Thies' “Fast-track search engine marketing strategies” kit costs $197 and, for a limited time, includes free shipping. You can order the kit at http://www.sitepoint.com/books/sem1/

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