Search Engine Strategies (SES) — New York, NY
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:
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts
Rick Klau, Vice President of Publisher Services, Feedburner
Sally Falkow, President, Expansion Plus
Greg Jarboe, President and Co-Founder, SEO-PR
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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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A-list blogger Toby Bloomberg is a leading light when it comes to business blog and social media strategy. Her popular Diva Marketing Blog is both an insightful marketing resource and a fun read. Through her company, Bloomberg Marketing, where she is president, Toby helps clients develop integrated marketing plans that utilize interactive tactics such as blogs, podcasts, video, and social media. Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts’ founder and president, had the pleasure of recently interviewing good friend Toby.
Listen to this 23 minute podcast, and hear what Toby had to say about blogs, social media strategy, and more…
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New sites are always at a disadvantage when it comes to ranking well in Google, particularly when the domain name is new, too. This phenomenon, known by some as the “Google Sandbox” and by others as the “TrustBox,” is not a myth. It is very real and very much an issue for the subject of this issue’s SEO Report Card - the fair trade supporting merchant “Two Hands Worldshop.”
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Join our founder and president, Stephan Spencer, along with renowned link builder Eric Ward, in this archived webinar of an information-packed 90-minutes of link building tips and tricks. The webinar, for MarketingProfs.com, was called “Inside Secrets to Building Links for Online Publicity, Buzz and Search Engine Optimization”. It was a follow-on to Stephan’s webinar for MarketingProfs 6 months prior, on the topic of boosting Google rankings through links (also available as a 90-minute screencast).
Watch Stephan and Eric’s webinar as a streaming Flash video »
Or, alternatively download/watch as a Quicktime (m4v) movie (169 MB) or as a Windows Media (wmv) file (59 MB).
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Neil Patel is a leading practitioner of social media optimization, the new art of weilding tools, strategies, and influence for the purpose of gaining visibility on social media networks and websites like Digg.com, del.icio.us, reddit, NewsVine, Netscape.com, MySpace and even Wikipedia. Featured in the Wall Street Journal as one of the top influencers on Digg, Neil has is a sought after speaker at conferences such as Search Engine Strategies, PubCon, and the AMA’s Hot Topic: Search Engine Marketing. In this interview with our founder and president Stephan Spencer, Neil shares his thoughts on the best social media sites, how to gain traffic and visibility on them, and much more…
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Providing “Toys with Conscience” to consumers around the world for over 20 years, PlayFair has offered unique, open-ended, stimulating learning, and educational toys through catalogs and retail locations. Sticking to their business foundation, Play Fair Toys wanted to be conscience of their online consumers and develop additional website merchandising control. Netconcepts rebuilt PlayFairToys.com to have as much character as their products.
Among the features of Playfairtoys.com are personalized account creation, real-time shopping cart on every page, newsletter sign-up, customer information section, help-text for shipping, gift wrapping, and much more including a blog written by President and CEO of Play Fair Toys, Marilyn Walker.
One of the most notable, and successful, aspects of Play Fair Toys is their usability of product navigation. Products are labeled into classic toys, by interest, activity, age level, sale items, best selling, and more. Check out PlayFairToys.com
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Brian Quinton, author for DIRECT Magazine discusses the effect of Long Tail optimization and the opportunity held by unbranded keywords. Quinton turns to Netconcepts’ VP of Search, Brian Klais, for expertise of the Long Tail of Natural Search key performance indicators.
Unbranded keywords are the key to unlocking natural search’s success potential. However, the ability to measure your natural search channel and quantifying your ROI is a new concept for most companies. Quinton does a great job of tying in the research and background that went into Netconcepts’ white paper “Chasing the Long Tail of Natural Search” to these ground breaking advancement in search.
Read this entire article and learn how to capture your own Long Tail.
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2820 Walton Commons West, Suite 123
Madison, WI 53718 USA
Phone: (608) 285-6600
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