This is an excellently written book, but it wasnt the book that I thought that I was buying.The author uses a very broad brush when referring to Marketing. Those who were looking for a title that concentrates only on getting traffic to a site could be disappointed as only one chapter covers this subject. The majority of the book relates to creating a site that achieves its goals and is user-friendly.
Because the subject matter was a lot broader than I expected, I learned a lot of useful information that I wasnt expecting, but found the marketing chapter to be too brief for my needs.
My main disappointment with the book, however, was that it is definitely not meant for one-man operations - this book is very much written for development teams of major corporations with six-figure budgets to spend on their sites, so much of the material was unusable for me. However, as the material covered in the book is rather of a general nature, Im not quite sure who would benefit greatly from reading the book - I would have thought that it lacked the necessary depth for anyone who was employed to create a major corporate site.
I really do hate to be negative about what is a very well-written, easy to read and informative book but there is such a wide variety of books on the subject of website marketing available that other readers will probably find that other titles are going to be more useful for their needs.