Do you lie awake at night wondering whether or not Google wants to know what you’re thinking? Find out by listening to this interview with Maile Ohye, Google’s Senior Support Engineer, and Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts.
In this 24 minute interview, Stephan and Maile discuss how your feedback influences Google’s decisions for user and webmaster support, Google’s “New” Webmaster Guidelines, and a wealth of technical SEO “best practice” questions related to things like cloaking and paid links.
Interview with Maile Ohye from Google [24:21m]:
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Those of you with school-age children may have been preoccupied with back-to-school, but now it’s time to start preparing your site for the holidays. The holiday shopping season is not that far off, so get on with implementing these traffic-building tips in order to achieve maximum search engine visibility.
Stephan Spencer, President and Founder of Netconcepts, offers five useful tips in this article from Practical eCommerce to ensure your online site is ready for the retail season.
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In Chinese society, “red envelope” refers to a monetary gift placed in a red packet because the color symbolizes good luck. That’s where Red Envelope got its name. Was the San Francisco-based gifts merchant lucky with the results of its Website critique? Well, while critiquers Amy Africa, president of Helena, VT-based Web consultancy Eight by Eight, and Stephan Spencer, founder/president of Madison, WI-based SEO-specialist agency Netconcepts, tried to handle Red Envelope’s site with care, they both found areas that need serious improvement. Africa reviewed the site’s content and functionality, and Spencer tested its search capability. Here’s what they had to say.
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Black Swan has been providing consumers with Home, Hearth and Gift products for over 28 years. Black Swan was looking to take their web presence to the next level and selected Netconcepts GravityMarket solution.
The new website offers a sleek design on top of a search optimal ecommerce structure. Black Swan enjoys a robust content management system that allows for the balance of the site’s content to be updated via web interface. The site also provides RSS feeds of featured products, which open up an additional communication channel to customers.
With this new site design and structure, Black Swan is sure to be heating up the Internet.
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PoolDawg.com, one of Netconcepts clients, was recently featured in an online article through InternetRetailer.com.
“A year ago, PoolDawg traded in its modified version of an “off-the-shelf” e-commerce platform for a completely new platform from Netconcepts. The Netconcepts GravityMarket 2.0 e-commerce platform offers a flexible design that, for example, supports the placement of content that has proven to help shoppers complete purchases, Feiman says.”
Read the article here. For more information about PoolDawg.com’s success, read the PoolDawg.com Case Study.
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Michael Fitzgerald focuses on the popularity of Steve Spangler’s blog in this article written for Inc.com. Learn more about how Steve Spangler turned boring content and bad publicity into an overnight “organic” success with the advice of Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts.
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As an online retailer, you are probably already aware of the power behind product reviews. In this article, Patricia Fusco, lead strategist for Netconcepts, launches the discussion by explaining the difference between ethical and “artificial” product reviews. Having a clear understanding of what a “good” product review entails, allows you to strengthen a product page’s development in order for it to be good for search and great for users.
Read this article about product reviews here, and learn how to take control over your product sales through review management and product level search engine optimization.
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UW Wisconsin Madison, Executive Education, Interactive Marketing — Madison, WI
Search engine marketing
- Making your site “search engine friendly”
- “Pay-per-click” search advertising
- Benchmarking, competitive intelligence and ROI analysis
- Trends in contextual, behavioral and local advertising
Creating a buzz — viral marketing
- Blogs, RSS feeds, forums, wikis and more
- Harness “word of mouse” to enhance your brand
- Identifying the “sneezers” who will spread your viral message
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Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts
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