In this article Stephan Spencer, President and Founder of Netconcepts, writes about the most, common mistakes that bloggers make, and what to do about them. From title tag optimization to keyword URLs, you’ll want to read this article to optimize your personal or business blog to help your blog increase its search visibility.
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Search Engine Strategies — San Jose, CA
Not yet running a blog? Not syndicating your content through web feeds? Then you’re missing out on an important area that can help your overall SEO efforts. Learn more about the unique advantages blogs and feeds offer to search engine optimization.
Speakers:
Greg Jarboe, President and Co-Founder, SEO-PR
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts, LLC
Rick Klau, Strategic Partner Development, Google
Doug Hay, Principal & CEO, Expansion Plus Inc.
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Sometimes Google’s announcements get lost in the shuffle. “Google today introduced a new experimental feature in their News - they’ve added story participant comments into their listings of stories.” In this article, Chris Smith talks about his thoughts and reactions to Google’s decision to allow comments on their news, and how it relates to other companies. Read more about Chris’ thoughts in the article here, and learn how comment-enabling might benefit your company.
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Black Swan has been providing consumers with Home, Hearth and Gift products for over 28 years. Black Swan was looking to take their web presence to the next level and selected Netconcepts GravityMarket solution.
The new website offers a sleek design on top of a search optimal ecommerce structure. Black Swan enjoys a robust content management system that allows for the balance of the site’s content to be updated via web interface. The site also provides RSS feeds of featured products, which open up an additional communication channel to customers.
With this new site design and structure, Black Swan is sure to be heating up the Internet.
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Michael Fitzgerald focuses on the popularity of Steve Spangler’s blog in this article written for Inc.com. Learn more about how Steve Spangler turned boring content and bad publicity into an overnight “organic” success with the advice of Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts.
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Search Engine Strategies 2007 Canada — Toronto, Canada
Syndication technology (RSS) makes it easier to build an audience for your content, because your readers or listeners become subscribers using non-intrusive “feed readers.” An overview of the growth of RSS plus a special focus on podcasting. This session will also include tips on blogging and podcasting for (a) profit; (b) credibility and reach.
Moderator:
Ian McAnerin, CEO, McAnerin Networks Inc.
Speakers:
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts, LLC
Mitch Joel, President , Twist Image
Amanda Watlington, Ph.D., APR, Searching for Profit
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In the intensive session I led during the ACCM in Boston on May 21, the overriding theme was that search engines judge a site’s worth on its inbound links. Translation: No links = no rankings.
Blogs, meanwhile, are great at attracting links from the blogosphere, because bloggers are rather cliquish and mostly tend to link to each other. So you’ll earn links as a blog that you wouldn’t normally earn otherwise.
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ACCM 2007 — Boston, MA
Hear it right from the horses’ mouths, i.e. those who have actually made their blogs and RSS feeds pay in real dollars. Steve Spangler Science, for example, attributes 13% of all online sales to their blog. Hear the secrets of how they garner qualified traffic from the search engines, uncover the pitfalls and hazards, and learn what resources are required to do it properly.
Moderator:
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts
Panelists:
Steve Spangler, CEO, Steve Spangler Science Inc.
Pinny Gniwisch, Founder & EVP Marketing, Ice.com
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Mike McDonald of WebProNews interviewed our very own Stephan Spencer at SES in San Francisco earlier this month, on May 3 2007. This 6.5 minute interview with Stephan and Mike discusses the insider secrets to blog marketing.
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Web 2.0 Expo — San Francisco, CA
This session will cover how to use blogs and RSS feeds as user-driven marketing platforms to enhance and improve content publishing and syndication. Panelists will discuss how blogs and RSS marketing can be used to enable access to any web site, device, content platform, or application; and enable users to consume content in whatever form they desire and whenever they want. Learn the best tips, tools, and techniques to optimize content delivery via blogs and RSS for maximum reach and effectiveness. Find out how RSS marketing can be used to increase organic search opportunities, and how blogs and feed metrics are collected and analyzed.
Moderator:
Niall Kennedy, Principal, Hat Trick Media
Panelists:
Bill Flitter, Founder and VP of Marketing, Pheedo
Don Loeb, FeedBurner
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts
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