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DineWise

February 1st, 2005

DineWise screenshotOur work with DineWise, a one-stop shop for all your online gourmet frozen food needs, focused on building them a successful E-Commerce platform. DineWise offers chef-prepared meals in convenient, individual packaging that are ready in minutes. This required high-level database integration to handle the complexity of the DineWise product line, while offering user-friendly, customized meal planning to online purchasers. The development and launch of www.dinewise.com has allowed DineWise to become one of the nation’s premier online providers of complete meal solutions, specializing in customized meals and meal planning for diabetic and healthy lifestyles.

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Verizon’s SuperPages.com signs up Netconcepts

December 23rd, 2004

Originally published in Scoop

US telecommunications giant Verizon already has 5 million pages in Google and 7 million pages in Yahoo! but Netconcepts President Stephan Spencer says there is room for improvement. It is all about making sure every page is indexed by the search engines as his company devotes six team members to the job.

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Cracking the US Market: Kiwi Businesses Share Their Secrets

AmCham Breakfast — Auckland, New Zealand

December 7th, 2004

Panelist: Stephan Spencer

Four speakers from leading companies give you the good oil on how to succeed in the USA!

Speaker #1: Neville Jordan, Executive Chairman, Endeavour Capital
Neville Jordan, CNZM, is the Executive Chairman of venture capital company Endeavour Capital. He founded Lower Hutt-based MAS Technology in 1976, growing it into a $100 million-a-year exporter which successfully listed on the NASDAQ in 1997. Neville was recently inducted into the NZ Hitech Hall of Fame. As an entrepreneur who has “been there and done that” in the US market, Neville will share practical hints and tips on selling into, and doing business with the US.

Speaker #2: Dr Paul Cossum, CEO, Proacta
Dr Paul Cossum is CEO of Auckland start-up cancer drug developer Proacta, which was named Biotechnology Company of the Year in the 2004 Westpac New Zealand Hi Tech Awards. Paul has 20 years of drug development industry experience in the US. He was most recently Executive Vice President of Drug Development at San Diego-based NewBiotics Inc. Paul will offer insights on attracting investment from US companies, as well as outline some of the pros and cons of setting up shop in the US.

Speaker #3: Stephan Spencer, Managing Director, Netconcepts
Stephan Spencer is the founder and managing director of Netconcepts, an online marketing and web development company specialising in e-commerce, website auditing and search engine optimisation. With headquarters in Browns Bay, Auckland, and offices in Madison, Wisconsin, Netconcepts delivers interactive services to US clients such as AOL and Verizon. Stephan brought Netconcepts to NZ from the US in 2000. He has successfully grown operations in the U.S. and is in an ideal position to provide, from an American’s perspective, unique insights for NZ businesses on how to best operate and market themselves in the U.S.

Speaker #4: Nigel Kirkpatrick, CEO, Industrial Research Limited
Nigel Kirkpatrick is the CEO of Industrial Research Limited, New Zealand’s leading industrial scientific research company. Nigel has substantial international business development experience. Before returning home to New Zealand in 2002 to head up IRL, he was the Zurich-based global innovation leader for DiverseyLever.
The US is a key market for IRL and one where it has been successful in winning key contracts.

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Web firm wins search engine deal

December 7th, 2004

Originally published in New Zealand Herald

Verizon’s Superpages.com may be #1 in the search engines for online shopping, but Netconcepts feels there is room for improvement. The company has scored a deal with the US telecommunications giant to improve its rankings in the search engines.

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The Apparel Panel Discussion: Optimizing Each Component Of Your Apparel E-Commerce Business: Dressing For Success

Etail 2004 — Fort Lauderdale, FL

August 3rd, 2004

Panelist: Brian Klais

  • Understanding the evolution of the E-Commerce operations of the panelists
  • Discovering growth areas in your already seemingly optimized E-Commerce operation
  • Understanding how operations, fulfillment and returns are the crux of your E-Commerce operation
  • Unwrapping the key issues around the next holiday season and applying lessons learned from seasons past

Panelists:
Lorna Borenstein, VP & GM, eBay
Fiona Swerdlow, Vice President, e-Commerce, Tommy Hilfiger USA, Inc.
Ruth Crowley, VP, General Merchandise, Harley Davidson
Brian Klais, VP, eBusiness Services, Netconcepts

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Spiders like Googlebot choke on Session IDs

June 25th, 2004

by Stephan Spencer

Many ecommerce sites have session IDs or user IDs in the URL of their pages. This tends to cause either the pages to not get indexed by search engines like Google, or to cause the pages to get included many times over and over, clogging up the index with duplicates (this phenonemon is called a “spider trap”). Furthermore, having all these duplicates in the index causes the site’s importance score, known as PageRank, to be spread out across all these duplicates (this phenonemon is called “PageRank dilution”).

Ironically, Googlebot regularly gets caught in a spider trap while spidering one of its own sites - the Google Store (where they sell branded caps, shirts, umbrellas, etc.). The URLs of the store are not very search engine friendly: they and are overly complex, and include session IDs. This has resulted in 3,440 duplicate copies of the Accessories page and 3,420 copies of the Office page, for example.

If you have a dynamic, database-driven website and you want to avoid your own site becoming a spider trap, you’ll need to keep your URLs simple. Try to avoid having any ?, &, or = characters in the URLs. And try to keep the number of “parameters” to a minimum. With URLs and search engine friendliness, less is more.

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Stephan Spencer’s Top 10 Tips for E-Commerce Sites

April 23rd, 2004

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in National Business Review

Our favorite tips for online catalogers: automatic spell correction on search queries, breadcrumb navigation, keyword themes, top 10 lists, open source, 1-click ordering, and more…

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Oodles more on Google, thanks to NZ’s Netconcepts

April 20th, 2004

Originally published in New Zealand Herald

The lack of search engine visibility was costing equipment company Northern Tool between US$100,000 and US$250,000 in lost sales. Netconcepts has given the company a boost in its search rankings on Google.

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A search engine nightmare: 12,000 SKUs, but only 17 pages show up at Google

April 13th, 2004

Originally published in Internet Retailer

Northern Tool says the upfront costs for its SEO project with Netconcepts brought about a 81% increase in traffic from natural search and were a worthwhile return on investment.

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Performics, Netconcepts Join Forces

April 13th, 2004

Originally published in imedia Connection

The partnership between Netconcepts and search engine marketing services company Performics integrates technology that will increase website visibility in the search engines.

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