This website critique was conducted by David Fry and Stephan Spencer. David Fry focused on the site’s content and functionality while Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts, tested Jegs.com’s search capabilities.
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Can SERPs predict the outcome of Super Bowl XLI? Lead Strategist with Netconcepts, PJ Fusco keeps score as three major search engines tell all.
Looking only at indexation, back-links, result snippets, on-page content references, and engine popularity, MSN, Yahoo and Google are put to the ultimate Nostradamus Super Bowl test. Will Yahoo and Google level the playing field or will MSN come up with a flea-flicker at the last second?
Who will emerge triumphant in this battle of the Super Bowl SERPs? Click here to see PJ’s results.
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In this presentation to The Wisconsin Publishers’ Production Club’s (WPPC) Catalog Innovations meeting in January, Netconcepts’ Director of E-Business, Hershel Reese explains how Web 2.0 has great implications for catalogers and publishers online.
RSS feeds are changing the way people are consuming their media. You need to stay on top of this channel in order to remain competitive online.
Web 2.0 is also changing the way people interact with web properties. The user generated content phenomena is helping site owners to actively engage an audience and build community online.
This presentation will also discuss how one online publisher, www.dmnews.com, is leveraging the Web 2.0 tool kit.
Social Media Sites are emerging as a channel to be reckoned with online. If you are not participating in these communities you are missing opportunities for increased brand recognition and traffic to your sites.
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This presentation was originally held on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at The Country Springs Hotel in Pewaukee, WI.
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Marketers, by the very nature of their job function, must juggle numerous campaigns, a range of portfolios, multiple channels, and various corporate, political, and personnel issues—all simultaneously.
Like so many folks, I made a New Year’s resolution—to get organized, to get the clutter out of my head and into a system where I don’t have worry about it on a daily basis, but where it will pop up when the time is right for action. And I have discovered how to do it with Getting Things Done is a best-selling book by productivity guru David Allen.
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They say that “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Not if you are a Web site owner and you have a brand to protect, however!
I’ve seen designs copied, content copied, even entire sites copied. It’s so easy for infringers to “View Source” and take whatever they like, without regard to copyright.
You can locate copyright infringers pretty easily with Copyscape if they’ve lifted some of your page copy. It’s much more difficult if they’ve limited their sticky fingers to just your design.
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How can you tell if your site adheres to SEO best practices? Lead Strategist with Netconcepts, PJ Fusco says you start by answering these 20 questions honestly. In an article for ClickZ, she starts out by asking if the keywords you are targeting relevant to your site content. After all, SEO best practice is all about embracing such essential elements like ensuring identical content is visible to both users and search engine spiders, and more. And when you’re done with answering those 20 questions, Pat goes on to advise…
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The best thing you can do to grow your search engine referrals this year is focus on producing great content says PJ Fusco, lead strategist with Netconcepts in this article for Click Z. After all “content is king” and it’s all about crowning that king by speaking to your audience in a language that appeals to them. And Pat advises that when writing articles for the web, short stories are better than novels.
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This month, let’s sneak a peek at FreshPair (www.freshpair.com), an underwear etailer, and a small sampling of its backlinks. We will discover thier secret for recieving high search engine rankings for such sought after trophy terms as “panties,” “bras,” and “underwear.” However, its possible, their secrets are better kept in the top drawer.
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With tens of millions of users (but probably not the purported 100 million), MySpace.com is a force to be reckoned with. Especially when you consider that MySpace apparently drives more traffic to online retailers than MSN Search, according to some recent Hitwise data.
But MySpace is hard for many of us adults to get our heads around. It just doesn’t seem logical: How does it hold the interest of so many young people with short attention spans, despite the fact that the design/usability is so atrocious, the Web page creation platform is so frustratingly restrictive, and it’s chock full of so many profiles that are obviously fake, spam, duplicated, or abandoned?
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It’s 2007 already. If you are like most merchants, you’ve followed the advice of your NSO firm and completed some basic site optimization projects. You routinely spot check your Google indexation, and your rankings on 100 or so “trophy” keywords to show your executive team. And a look at your web analytics shows your natural search channel sales growing. So what’s wrong with this picture?
Let the Long Tail of natural search and KPI metrics strengthen your website through best practice SEO.
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