Shop.org Annual Summit — Las Vegas, NV
Are you attending the Shop.org Annual Summit? Join Netconcepts Founder & President Stephan Spencer as he facilitates this roundtable discussion on “Faceted (Attribute-based) Navigation and Other Thorny SEO Issues for Retailers“.
To read the details of the full conference visit the Shop.org conference website.
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In this article Forrester Research discusses how large ecommerce businesses will use online marketing to grow this channel. Natural Search is one piece of the online marketing pie. Home decor etailer Pottery Barn increased the success of their organic search initiative with use of Netconcepts SEO technology:
“…Pottery Barn boosted natural search results between 1,000% and 9,800% across its sites by investing in GravityStream, a technology sold through its search agency to automate SEO work. “
To read the complete article, visit the Marketing Daily column at MediaPost Publications.
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A SEO review of this site and the Best Practices in use, as well as opportunities for new optimization. Analyst Jeff Muendel of Netconcepts goes through the site with a fine tooth comb. Learn from his findings on how to analyze your ecommerce website and tweak it in time for holiday traffic.
If Little Pixie Gifts has an SEO weak point, it is in the URLs. As search engines spider the URL addresses along with title tags and page content, each URL should reflect the keyword theme of the page. Instead, Little Pixie Gifts has URLs like http://www.littlepixiegifts.com.au/cart.php?target=category&category_id=62. While such a URL doesn’t necessarily hurt things from a search engine perspective, it certainly doesn’t help.
To read the full article, visit Practical Ecommerce.
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A recent article in Chain Store Age focuses on the impact GravityStream SEO technology by Netconcepts has had on the Cabela’s website. Multi-Channel retailer Cabela’s ecommerce website ranks highly in search engines with an optimized version of their website running GravityStream technology. This technology automates optimization so that search engine spiders can read and understand the content of the Cabela’s site. One of the benefits of this scalable technology is shorter URLs which are search engine friendly. The optimized site is in sync with the native site, which was not the case with other SEO efforts Cabela’s had tried in the past. The GravityStream solution is particularly effective for non-branded items, also called Long Tail terms. The SEO version of the site has paid off, and in 2007 alone, Cabela’s saw a 140% increase in visits and a 70% jump in sales.
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The growth of search engine marketing (SEM) predicted by investment firm Piper-Jaffray in a study they published in 2003 — projected that worldwide total revenue from search would reach $7 billion by 2007. Actual revenue for North America alone was $12 billion in 2007. The investment in SEM represents both paid online advertising, and a renewed interest online retailers have in managing their organic search channel. Netconcepts serves leading brands, who we see are increasing their investment and treating organic optimization as an ongoing need, no longer a one-time application.
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Netconcepts President & Founder Stephan Spencer and other industry experts are interviewed for their opinion on this topic. What is more important for a brand, being more visible to customers, or being engaged with customers?
Watch the video interview here and decide for yourself.
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Do you know your website’s conversion rate? Do you know if it is above or below average for a typical merchant? The average conversion rate is only about 2.4%. How can you increase your site’s conversion rate? Learn from Netconcepts Founder & President, Stephan Spencer about how to improve your organization’s website to become a better converter. In this article for MultiChannel Merchant, Stephan discusses the use of Persuasion Architecture, how to design for different personality types, analyze your audience’s needs and to adjust your tone.
Technology is not a means to higher conversion rates; it is just a tool that must be properly managed, configured, and implemented in order to reach your goals. Just having a great CMS with an advanced shopping cart system is not enough — there are no “set it and forget it” solutions for improving your conversion rate.
For more on this topic, read the full article here.
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This year’s Internet Retailer show had increased attendance of 25% more. The show included a panel that netconcepts Founder & President Stephan Spencer participated in. Along with consultants Lauren Freedman, president of The E-Tailing Group, and Amy Africa, president of Eight by Eight, the three reviewed websites for SEO opportunities. Two common issues that were found were long URLs and redirects which can be confusing to users and search engines. The session was jam-packed and received rave reviews.
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Interviewed by Jim Hedger of Metamend, Stephan Spencer, founder & president of Netconcepts, recaps a few tips, and tricks from his session at SES Toronto 2008. If you missed this powerful session at SES, learn some nuggets of useful link building tricks from one of the masters.
View the full video interview here.
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In this video Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts President & Founder is interviewed at the Internet Retailer conference by Get Elastic about Link Building strategies for online retailers. How can your organization increase PageRank to interior pages? Does a link building initiative mean building links only to your home page? What is ‘PageRank sculpting‘, and how can it impact a website?
To view the video interview and learn more on this topic, go here.
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