In this article, Netconcepts Founder and President, Stephan Spencer, contributes his critique of a snowboarding business called Daddiesboardshop.com, in order to flesh out opportunities for search engine optimization. Stephan gives technical examples as he writes about URL rewriting, page duplication, link building, pull-down menus and domain hosting to address major fixes that would help improve Daddiesboardshop.com’s overall search engine visibility.
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AMA Search Engine Marketing — New York, NY
Links are the currency of search engines. Without good inbound links to your web site, your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts will be in vain. Link building is arguably the most difficult, most misunderstood, and most poorly executed aspect to SEO. Join SEO and link-building expert Stephan Spencer as he guides us through the quagmire showing us the way to great search engine rankings.
You will learn:
- Google’s PageRank scores: red herring or useful metric?
- What makes a link valuable or not
- Creative strategies for building link-worthy content
- What works when approaching webmasters with link requests
- Pitfalls to avoid if buying or bartering links
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Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts
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Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts founder and president, writes a site review for Modernmini–a modern-style baby store–in this article. His in-depth review covers ten specific examples, including how error pages can negatively effect a website, as well as other search engine optimization talking points. Find out how basic SEO techniques like keyword prominence and simple HTML tags can help this modern mom’s baby furniture store website.
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Link bait, simply put, is content that is so funny, so interesting, so useful, or otherwise remarkable that it becomes irresistible to bloggers and website owners, who set up links from their pages to the original material. I’ve seen link bait take the form of Top 10 lists, humorous videos uploaded to YouTube, checklists, cartoons, tools, widgets and blog plugins — to name just a few.
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For the world’s foremost outdoor outfitter, Cabela’s, ecommerce landing page have made all the difference. Derek Fortna, Marketing Program Manager for Cabela’s, has been implementing best-practice search friendly marketing since his switch to Netconcepts’ GravityStream platform.
“With the earlier system, he says, “If I’m a user searching for boat trailer parts, I can’t buy from that page, I have to make another click to go into the web site to make a purchase. With the GravityStream proxy, if I find what I want I can place the order right there.”
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For more information about Cabela’s success with Netconcepts, read the Cabela’s Case Study.
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“Hats off to Kyle for showing such initiative,” writes Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts in his latest website review for 17-year old Kyle Kano, owner and operator of “The Honey Jar.” Find out how to grow a small, home-based business into a tough competitor by adding product-level pages, link-building strategies, and intelligent body copy.
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AMA Search Engine Marketing — San Francisco, CA
Links are the currency of search engines. Without good inbound links to your web site, your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts will be in vain. Link building is arguably the most difficult, most misunderstood, and most poorly executed aspect to SEO. Join SEO and link-building expert Stephan Spencer as he guides us through the quagmire showing us the way to great search engine rankings.
You will learn:
- Google’s PageRank scores: red herring or useful metric?
- What makes a link valuable or not
- Creative strategies for building link-worthy content
- What works when approaching webmasters with link requests
- Pitfalls to avoid if buying or bartering links
Speakers:
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts
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In this article Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts, reviews a website of a seasonal company offering tips to increase rankings and online marketing for organic search. Stephan writes, “Competing for organic search visibility during the holiday shopping season requires a ramp-up in online marketing — namely, link building and link baiting — many months in advance. It should start now, in fact.”
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Ward’s appears to have done some search engine optimization (SEO), and it was a good start, but I discovered costly mistakes and much opportunity yet untapped. Currently its site is not present in the first five pages of Google for key terms such as “lab equipment” and “lab supplies” or for category names such as “microscopes” and “chemicals.”
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Eric Ward has been link building since the early 1990’s and well before the days of Google’s PageRank. His client list includes such large companies as Amazon.com and the Discovery Channel.
Listen to this 36-minute interview, as AMA conference chair Stephan Spencer pulls some great link building tips and tricks out of Eric.

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