Countrywide’s CreditDemystified.com Isn’t a Blog, or Is It?
Web development companies are increasingly recognizing the potential of WordPress as a content management system (CMS). CreditDemystified.com, an educational site developed for Countrywide Home Loans, illustrates how a corporate microsite can successfully be adapted to the blog platform.
The microsite, developed by Netconcepts, is designed to help visitors become credit savvy by providing simple answers to credit questions. Although the microsite’s platform is WordPress, CreditDemystified.com is far from a traditional blog.
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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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If Google engineer Matt Cutts had his druthers, buying links would become an extinct SEO practice.
Cutts has addressed the topic of link-buying on a number of occasions on his blog (Mattcutts.com/blog) and in blog comments elsewhere. He’s admonished webmasters who buy links for PageRank and encouraged webmasters instead to buy only links that have been “nofollowed” — in other words, where the rel=nofollow attribute has been added to the link so that the search engines do not count that link as a vote. He has stated in no uncertain terms that Google considers “buying text links for PageRank purposes to be outside our quality guidelines.”
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Search Engine Strategies — Chicago, IL
This session explores how specialized blog and feed (RSS/Atom) search engines gather content and provides tips on tapping into these growing forms of traffic.
Moderator:
Detlev Johnson, VP, Director of Consulting, Position Technologies
Speakers:
Amanda Watlington, Ph.D., APR, Searching for Profit
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts, LLC
Rick Klau, FeedBurner
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Credit Demystified was designed to help visitors become credit savvy. Dedicated to providing simple answers to complicated credit questions, Credit Demystified provides free articles, workbooks, and links to home loan options. Built on behalf of Countrywide Home Loans, the site is designed to make the most of Web 2.0 opportunities, and like all Netconcepts’ websites it is search engine optimal.
[ database | client admin cms | SEO ]
Visit the site: Credit Demystified
Further reading: Credit Demystified Press Release
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PoolDawg offers one of the largest selections of billiards and gameroom products on the web. PoolDawg is also the ultimate resource for your home gameroom, carrying pool table repair kits and furnishings certain to improve any gameroom. After a Pooldawg.com website audit, this ecommerce site was redesigned and built by Netconcepts to ensure full SEO site structure could be achieved.
Among the extraordinary site features offered to customers are testimonials, buying guides, billiard basics, RSS for featured products, detailed product specifications, and more.
One of the unique and very successful features of the new PoolDawg site is the shopping cart, real-time, shipping estimator. Providing a shipping estimate early in the check out stage allows for total price transparency to the shopper and conversion rate optimization to PoolDawg. PoolDawg.com offers one stop shopping for all your billiard needs.
[ conversion | client admin cms | SEO ]
Visit The Site: Pooldawg
For More Reading: Testimonial, Case Study
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Lead strategist for Netconcepts, P J Fusco writes in an article for ClickZ, that the “Long Tail” principle works contrary to how most online brands prioritize their search engine marketing (SEM) strategies. While online retailers tend to optimize their sites for the 20 most popular keywords and keyword phrases that drive the most traffic, they would also do well to target the millions of unbranded niche phrases at the shallow end to complement those high-traffic branded search referrals. PJ goes on to say…
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