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Maximizing Your “Natural Search” Channel: SEO That Really Works

MarketingProfs virtual seminar series — online (webcast)

November 18th, 2004

Webcast by Stephan Spencer

Imagine an online ad that costs you nothing per impression, guarantees both a local and worldwide audience actively seeking your products and services, and offers 6 times the click-through rate of a banner ad… a search engine listing.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the ultimate targeted, low cost and high return weapon in the e-marketer’s promotional arsenal.

Learn how to maximize your reach through the “organic” (unpaid) results in the search engines:

  • Which search engines to target
  • Keyword research tools and tactics
  • Writing copy that “sings” to the search engines
  • Benchmarking against your competitors
  • Link building strategies that work
  • Optimal search engine architecture
  • Best practices to emulate
  • Scams exposed
  • Case studies - including the “inside scoop” on what worked and what didn’t
  • Making your e-commerce or database-driven site “search engine friendly”
  • Measuring the return on your search engine marketing investment
  • Developing a search engine marketing plan
  • Criteria for selecting a search engine marketing agency
  • Online tools and resources

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The Apparel Panel Discussion: Optimizing Each Component Of Your Apparel E-Commerce Business: Dressing For Success

Etail 2004 — Fort Lauderdale, FL

August 3rd, 2004

Panelist: Brian Klais

  • Understanding the evolution of the E-Commerce operations of the panelists
  • Discovering growth areas in your already seemingly optimized E-Commerce operation
  • Understanding how operations, fulfillment and returns are the crux of your E-Commerce operation
  • Unwrapping the key issues around the next holiday season and applying lessons learned from seasons past

Panelists:
Lorna Borenstein, VP & GM, eBay
Fiona Swerdlow, Vice President, e-Commerce, Tommy Hilfiger USA, Inc.
Ruth Crowley, VP, General Merchandise, Harley Davidson
Brian Klais, VP, eBusiness Services, Netconcepts

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President Carter’s blogging experience

“We are grateful to Stephan for planting the seed for one of the most successful Web projects The Carter Center has undertaken to-date.”

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Conservationists enjoy increased traffic, search engine rankings and new volunteers

“… redesign of our database’s structure and ongoing co-operation with our website administrator has resulted in a continual increase in traffic, search engine rankings and registrations of volunteers and projects.”

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Spiders like Googlebot choke on Session IDs

June 25th, 2004

by Stephan Spencer

Many ecommerce sites have session IDs or user IDs in the URL of their pages. This tends to cause either the pages to not get indexed by search engines like Google, or to cause the pages to get included many times over and over, clogging up the index with duplicates (this phenonemon is called a “spider trap”). Furthermore, having all these duplicates in the index causes the site’s importance score, known as PageRank, to be spread out across all these duplicates (this phenonemon is called “PageRank dilution”).

Ironically, Googlebot regularly gets caught in a spider trap while spidering one of its own sites - the Google Store (where they sell branded caps, shirts, umbrellas, etc.). The URLs of the store are not very search engine friendly: they and are overly complex, and include session IDs. This has resulted in 3,440 duplicate copies of the Accessories page and 3,420 copies of the Office page, for example.

If you have a dynamic, database-driven website and you want to avoid your own site becoming a spider trap, you’ll need to keep your URLs simple. Try to avoid having any ?, &, or = characters in the URLs. And try to keep the number of “parameters” to a minimum. With URLs and search engine friendliness, less is more.

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SEO abseil delivered page 1! out of 5,590,000 listings

“Page 1 out of 5,590,000 listings! I would recommend Netconcepts to anyone wanting to make their site more visible and profitable, and who wouldn’t want that!?”

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Stephan Spencer’s Top 10 Tips for E-Commerce Sites

April 23rd, 2004

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in National Business Review

Our favorite tips for online catalogers: automatic spell correction on search queries, breadcrumb navigation, keyword themes, top 10 lists, open source, 1-click ordering, and more…

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Yahoo’s Search Life After Google

April 1st, 2004

Originally published in Catalog Age

In an interview with MultiChannelMerchant, Stephan Spencer had this to say to the announcement that Yahoo! would stop using Google’s technology in favor of its own search engine, and what it would mean for catalogers.

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Google Optimization: E-Commerce @ $1 Cost (Part 2)

February 20th, 2004

by Brian Klais

Originally published in MarketingProfs

Many creative strategies are emerging to help merchants tap into this dynamic new search marketplace. As search becomes more embedded into consumer buying behavior, Google’s success provides both a framework and a reason for thinking about search engine friendliness as an integral part of Web design - rather than as an afterthought.

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SEO de-mystified for good results

“We hired Netconcepts because they were able to help de-mystify the steps we needed to take to increase traffic through search relevance.”

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