Alex Michael

Marketing Through Search Optimization, Second Edition, is the step-by-step marketer's guide to improving your web ranking in search engines and getting your site listed effectively in online directories. Search engine placement has become a key task for those engaged in website marketing because good positioning in search engines and directories dramatically increases visitor traffic. Optimizing search engine ranking will be the most important and cost-effective way of marketing your website, and customers use search engines more than any other method to locate websites. Submitting to search engines is only part of the challenge. It is also vital to prepare a website through "search engine optimization," ensuring that your web pages are accessible and focused in ways that drive traffic to your site.

In the past 10 years mobile phones have gone from being high-end gadgets only the wealthy could afford to an essential accessory, now owned by a large portion of the population of the world. The integration of the Internet, mobility and communications at the device, service and transport level has created a new set of business opportunities. Mobile marketing has become a mainstream marketing tool and marketers must now identify and reach their mobile audience. This book is designed to teach marketeers how to tap into this potential. Mobile Marketing is as different from traditional marketing as Internet marketing was, and this book outlines methods and techniques for: * Defining and implementing a wireless marketing strategy * Making sense of what can be a technically and commercially confusing industry * Providing a wealth of carefully chosen international cases and examples to demonstrate techniques in the real world Written by experienced practitioners with experience of advising major international companies on both strategy and individual campaigns in the mobile sector it is an essential guide and reference for professional marketeers.

Marketing Through Search Optimization, Second Edition, is the step-by-step marketer's guide to improving your web ranking in search engines and getting your site listed effectively in online directories. Search engine placement has become a key task for those engaged in website marketing because good positioning in search engines and directories dramatically increases visitor traffic. Optimizing search engine ranking will be the most important and cost-effective way of marketing your website, and customers use search engines more than any other method to locate websites.Submitting to search engines is only part of the challenge. It is also vital to prepare a website through "search engine optimization," ensuring that your web pages are accessible and focused in ways that drive traffic to your site.

In the past 10 years mobile phones have gone from being high-end gadgets only the wealthy could afford to an essential accessory, now owned by a large portion of the population of the world. The integration of the Internet, mobility and communications at the device, service and transport level has created a new set of business opportunities. Mobile marketing has become a mainstream marketing tool and marketers must now identify and reach their mobile audience. This book is designed to teach marketeers how to tap into this potential. Mobile Marketing is as different from traditional marketing as Internet marketing was, and this book outlines methods and techniques for: * Defining and implementing a wireless marketing strategy * Making sense of what can be a technically and commercially confusing industry * Providing a wealth of carefully chosen international cases and examples to demonstrate techniques in the real world Written by experienced practitioners with experience of advising major international companies on both strategy and individual campaigns in the mobile sector it is an essential guide and reference for professional marketeers.

Andrew Rapo and Alex Michael explain all the important programming concepts from a designer's point of view, making them completely accessible to non-programmers. Completely revised and rewritten this second edition will help you develop professional ActionScript 2 applications, and communicate knowledgably about current, Object Oriented ActionScript 2 techniques. Divided into four sections to take you from novice to professional results: * Flash Fundamentals: Introduces the Flash authoring environment and basic core Flash concepts. * ActionScript 2 Fundamentals: Explains basic programming concepts and terminology, and shows how ActionScript 2 classes are constructed and used. * Built-in Classes: Describes the built-in ActionScript classes that are available for use in applications, including the MovieClip class, Key class, Sound class, etc. * Using ActionScript to Build a Game: Describes the development process for creating a complex Flash application and presents commercial-quality game coding examples.