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Perhaps you’re a blogger like myself and very committed to delivering quality content.  You’ve undoubtedly Googled your topic to see your Google placement.  It’s also highly probable that About.com has been in the top 3 search results with sub par information. I’m sure for you as a blogger this does generate a large amount of frustration, I know it does for me. My question is for you bloggers and web ninja’s out there.  How do you defeat this monster call About.com and improve your SEO?

Look at some of my posts, you’ll notice that they are of much higher quality than the About page for IT Project+

About.com’s IT Project+ Page
Note: I’ve chaned the links on the “See More About” section to avoid back lighting to their sub par site.

See More About:

• project management
• project+
• study guides
• book reviews

The Bottom Line

This book will prepare you for the IT Project+ exam and hopefully teach you a thing or two about project management.

Pros

• Does an excellent job of covering exam objectives.
• Excellent CD-ROM.
• Understandable, real-world IT scenarios.

Cons

• Sometimes difficult to follow due to diligent adherence to the order of exam objectives.

Description

• Covers all Project+ exam objectives and provides real-world scenarios and a project case study.
• Includes an assessment test and chapter review questions.
• Also includes a 50-question practice exam in the book, and an additional 50-question exam on CD-ROM.

Guide Review - IT Project+ Study Guide
The topic is very subjective and the exam is vendor-neutral. These two factors put together create a gray area that this author must try to fill in to create a cohesive, understandable, and not too dull guide to project management. William Heldman does an admirable job of all three. Speaking from extensive experience in PM, he not only points out how to run a successful project but explains why many projects fail. He also follows, almost to a fault, the Project+ exam objectives. While this make sense for a study guide, it also creates a level of discontinuity. You may have to flip around a bit as you study to ensure you can distinguish the difference between the exam objectives and the subjectiveness of the author’s writing. He is fond of pointing out his opinion on various subjects and uses “I” more frequently than is typical in a manual of this type. But, then again, project management is a people-oriented subject and it is often helpful to learn from another’s experience. Overall, this is a useful guide for getting the Project+ certification, especially if you take advantage of the numerous practice questions. The CD-ROM provides some very helpful study tools, in typical Sybex fashion. The material is solid, if a bit rambling, and the book will certainly give you an excellent post-exam PM reference tool.

You can view the about.com Project+ review by clicking here.

Their Apparent Goal

About.com is a site setup to simply generate revenue by advertisement and provides no real useful information.  RSS feed sites get a lot of flack but at least they generally link to blogs and often blog authors write with passion about their subject and provide helpful content. About.com in my view is worse than the RSS spam sites and posts original spam content.

The content provided concerning the Sybex book is written like the author took 10 minutes to review it and then went to work.  I’d recommend avoiding About.com as your source of useful information, you can do better with a strong keyword search with Google.

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