In Part One of Domaining and Subdomaining in the Local Space, Chris Smith, lead GravityStream strategist for Netconcepts, delved deep into the difference between domaining and subdomaining, and focused his expert attention on the benefits and drawbacks to the practice of subdomaining.
For the conclusion of this two-part article, Chris writes about how “Domaining has been growing up as an industry, and is now focusing on designing sites for SEO and with real content for good usability.”
From traffic and profitability to local space, read about domaining here so you can make a better assessment if this practice is good for your business.
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Wouldn’t it be great if all the whiz-bang Web 2.0 interactive elements like Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), widgets, Flash, RSS feeds, podcasts, video blogs and so forth were all search engine optimized?
Unfortunately, that’s not the case. In fact, many of these technologies are inherently unfriendly to search engine spiders. So, if you intend to harness Web 2.0 technologies for increased conversion, improved usability and greater customer engagement, you’d better read on or you’ll end up missing the boat when it comes to better search engine rankings.
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AMA Hot Topic: Search Engine Marketing — Chicago, IL
Links are the currency of search engines. Without good inbound links to your web site, your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts will be in vain. Link building is arguably the most difficult, most misunderstood, and most poorly executed aspect to SEO. Join SEO and link-building expert Stephan Spencer as he guides us through the quagmire showing us the way to great search engine rankings.
You will learn:
- Google’s PageRank scores: red herring or useful metric?
- What makes a link valuable or not
- Creative strategies for building link-worthy content
- What works when approaching webmasters with link requests
- Pitfalls to avoid if buying or bartering links
Speakers:
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts
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Search Engine Bootcamp — Auckland, New Zealand
Link building is fast becoming one of the best ways to promote your site, find out how to master the basics & get you linking strategy up & running, great overview here.
Speaker:
Jacqui Jones, Natural Search Marketing Consultant, 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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“Out with the old, in with the new,” Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts writes in this article about SEO trends. Learn what website metrics to measure, and what to forget about, as Stephan gives us his insight on the hot topics in the world of search engine optimization.
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This month’s selectee, Millcraftfurniture.com, is an outdoor furniture manufacturer operating a small (less than 100 pages) MIVA Merchant-powered ecommerce site. Its rankings are in the doldrums. The store does not appear in the first 100 listings in Google for critical terms “Adirondack chairs” and “Adirondack chair.” This site is buried deep in Google’s results for many other key terms, such as “outdoor furniture,” “patio furniture,” “garden furniture,” “porch swing” and “bench swing.” Millcraftfurniture.com does rank No. 2 for both “poly furniture” and “poly outdoor furniture,” but these two terms get little to no search activity, according to Yahoo! (specifically, the Overture Keyword Selector tool at Inventory.overture.com).
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One of the hot topics in SEO is the debate over duplicate content. Many retail websites might carry the same products across multiple domains; news-related websites and articles might be found in multiple places all across the web. Lead strategist for Netconcepts, Patricia Fusco responds to the issue of duplicate content by saying, “This challenges search engine algorithms to be smarter and faster when presenting users with definitive, relevant search results — usually the original content source.”
Whether you are already aware that you have duplicate content across several domains or not, duplicate content could be a cause for concern from an organic search and a search engine spider perspective.
Read “The Duplicate Content Debate” here and find out whether or not you should address this issue for your own sites.
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