A few more days to go and then Avinash Kaushik's 2nd webanalytics book will be released. It's called Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity.
Congrats Avinash. Will definitely be in my bookshelf! You can pre-order it here!
I am still fighting with myself about publishing a Web Analytics book, especially that there are a bunch of good ones out there (but none the way I was planning to do it). Anyways... I just noticed that Andrew King published his new book "Website Optimization Book". Unfortunately it's out of stock so I cannot really review it.
"Remember when an optimized website was one that merely didn't take all day to appear? Times have changed. Today, website optimization can spell the difference between enterprise success and failure, and it takes a lot more know-how to achieve. This book is a comprehensive guide to the tips, techniques, standards, and methods of website optimization. From increasing site traffic to maximizing leads, from revving up responsiveness to increasing navigability, from prospect retention to closing more sales, the world of 21st century website optimization is explored, exemplified and explained. Website Optimization combines the disciplines of online marketing and site performance tuning to attain the competitive advantage necessary on today's Web. You'll learn how to improve your online marketing with effective paid and natural search engine visibility strategies, strengthened lead creation and conversion to sales methods, and gold-standard ad copywriting guidelines. Plus, your increased site speed, reduced download footprint, improved reliability, and improved navigability will work synergistically with those marketing methods to optimize your site's total effectiveness. In this book for business and IT managers, author Andrew King, president of Website Optimization, LLC, has assembled experts in several key specialties to teach you: Search engine optimization -- addressing best (and worst) practices to improve search engine visibility, including step-by-step keyword optimization guidelines, category and tag cloud creation, and guerilla PR techniques to boost inbound links and improve rankings Pay-per-click optimization..."