B2B Corporate Sites

Orbital RPM

February 7th, 2008

Orbital RPM screenshotOrbital RPM is a consulting firm merging the strategic oversight of a Chief Learning Officer [CLO] with the most progressive methodologies of learning and development. A workforce that has evolved from an industrial society to a knowledge society requires learning and development that has undergone the same transformation. Traditional training was suitable for the way businesses operated several decades ago. Orbital RPM brings the revolution in learning and development needed by today’s workforce.

Orbital RPM sought a website on the leading edge of functionality to match our progressive services. Our goal is to become the information destination for learning and development professionals and our new site is a major asset in that pursuit by including a tag cloud, videos, podcasts, a calendar of events and behind the scenes content management for easy maintenance.

Interview with IBM Distinguished Engineer, Mike Moran

September 26th, 2007

by Stephan Spencer

Mike Moran is an author and pioneer in search marketing at IBM Corp. Since the early 2000s, Mike has worked to establish ground-breaking strategies on a corporate level, in order to implement SEO changes on a massive scale.

Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts’ founder and president, interviewed Mike about the unique challenges that mega-corporations have related to SEO implementation, understanding the ROI and hidden benefits behind SEO, and what the solutions are to solving those challenges. Read more about how savvy decision-making and well-written processes can help solve SEO implementation problems on a corporate level.

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The Pros & Cons of Microsites As An SEO Option

September 20th, 2007

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Search Engine Land

While “one page salesletters” can be what Stephan Spencer, President and Founder of Netconcepts calls, “an SEO nightmare,” proper optimization of microsites can be beneficial to SEO. In this article, Stephan writes about the right (and wrong) way to treat microsites as an SEO option.

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PoolDawg.com

November 29th, 2006

PoolDawg screenshotPoolDawg 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

LePoidevin Rickinger Group

October 31st, 2006

LePoidevin Rickinger Group screenshotThe LePoidevin Rickinger Group is a full-service strategic marketing, advertising and public relations agency serving the business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketer. Our clients are leaders in the animal health, pet, mining, electric power distribution, agriculture, pest control, cleaning & sanitation, and flexible packaging industries. We offer senior-level account service and creative talent, and focus our efforts and services on solving marketing and communications challenges for our clients through sound strategic counsel and award-winning creative.

[ database | client admin cms | SEO ]

Visit the site: LePoidevin Rickinger Group

Emergency Medical Products

October 2nd, 2006

BuyEMP screenshotEmergency Medical Products Inc. sells emergency medical supplies and equipment to fire fighters and EMS professionals. In other words, each sale isn’t just money in their virtual cash register; it’s as if somebody’s life depends on it!

This online catalog site is powered by our GravityMarket ecommerce platform which means it is search engine friendly out of the gates, with an intuitive feature rich website for customers and a powerful administrative interface for our client. Among other things, the site supports “EZ Ordering” by SKU or item number. They are also embracing the concept that “markets are conversations,” having just started a blog.

[ database | client admin cms | SEO ]

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Derceto

August 23rd, 2006

Derceto screenshotDerceto is a software company which has been funded by a leading New Zealand venture capital firm. It makes modelling software for water distribution. Their software helps reduce power consumption by helping the water companies save significant amounts of money off of their power bills.

Derceto.com is an information-rich corporate website with FAQs, online forums, white papers, presentations, and fact sheets.

[ database | client admin cms | SEO ]

Visit The Site: Derceto

Polycase

August 1st, 2006

Polycase screenshotPolycase is a manufacturer of plastic electronic enclosures for OEMs, including handhelds, desktops, and other electronics.

This ecommerce site, powered by our GravityMarket solution, makes it easy for Polycase’s customers to do business with them. In addition to searching by keyword, customers can search by size — length and width — and by series. They can also browse by product type, size range and application. In addition to ample product information and specifications, including engineering drawings, the site also offers a helpful PDF library.

[ database | client admin cms | SEO ]

Visit The Site: Polycase

What to do about copyright infringement of your website?

June 20th, 2006

by Stephan Spencer

They say that “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” But not if you’re a site owner! I’ve seen designs copied, content copied, even entire sites copied. It’s so easy for someone to “view source” and take whatever they like, without regard to copyright.

You can locate copyright infringers pretty easily with Copyscape if they’ve lifted some of your page copy. It’s much more difficult if they’ve limited their sticky fingers to just your design.

So far I’ve discovered by tip-off or by chance that our Netconcepts.com site design has been “pinched” at least 3 times. One of them was a fairly big company. More than a year and they finally stopped using our design, but the evidence of their misbehavior is permanently archived in the Wayback Machine (hint: pick a date in 2004 and compare with my company’s site). In fact, the Wayback Machine is quite useful in that it can serve as indisputable proof of who is the source and who is the copy: whichever site shows the design in use before the other is the source.

The way I see it, you have five options for dealing with an infringer:

  • Do nothing,
  • file a DMCA infringement notification with Google, to get them yanked out of Google,
  • contact the infringing company’s CEO,
  • “out” them on your blog :-)
  • have your lawyer send them a nastygram.

I have to admit that we’ve often done nothing, just because we’re so busy. Eventually they’ll redesign (maybe pinching another design from somewhere else?). Of course that’s not a great option if you’re serious about protecting your IP (intellectual property) rights.

With our most recent infringer, we’ve taken a more active role. We spoke to their CEO. He asked for 2 months to redesign, which we’ve granted them.

So, what would you do? What’s the most legally correct response? The most pragmatic response?

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The rulebook for SEOs wanting to do business with big companies

June 9th, 2006

by Stephan Spencer

Just read this awesome post from Chris Smith of Verizon Directories (SuperPages.com), where he lays out his criteria for selecting an SEO firm to work with. In summary (I’m paraphrasing here), the SEO agency…:

  • should have longevity and track record of at least somewhat related work
  • should not have promoted itself using unrealistic promises and representations
  • should have a clean record (no black-hat methods)
  • should not have tried to impress with a cursory 5-minute site assessment leading to naive recommendations
  • should not have insulted our technical work
  • should not have made claims of secret methods/knowledge
  • should have priced their services reasonably
  • should have posted information on their website about the companies/sites they’ve done work for
  • should have demonstrated strong technical work on their own site as well as clients’ sites
  • should have good people and make that evident on their company site
  • should have projected a professional demeanor
  • shouldn’t have pestered or been hard-selling
  • should be flexible in legal contract negotiations, once selected

Good stuff! Read Chris’ full article: “How major companies choose SEOs”.

(Disclaimer: yes, Verizon SuperPages.com is a client of ours, and no we don’t wear sandals to business meetings.)

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