Mike McDonald of WebProNews interviewed our very own Stephan Spencer at SES in Chicago last month, in December 06. This 10 minute interview with Stephan and Lee Odden from TopRank discusses the credibility of Web 2.0 marketing tactics in the eyes of consumers.
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With tens of millions of users (but probably not the purported 100 million), MySpace.com is a force to be reckoned with. Especially when you consider that MySpace apparently drives more traffic to online retailers than MSN Search, according to some recent Hitwise data.
But MySpace is hard for many of us adults to get our heads around. It just doesn’t seem logical: How does it hold the interest of so many young people with short attention spans, despite the fact that the design/usability is so atrocious, the Web page creation platform is so frustratingly restrictive, and it’s chock full of so many profiles that are obviously fake, spam, duplicated, or abandoned?
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If Google engineer Matt Cutts had his druthers, buying links would become an extinct SEO practice.
Cutts has addressed the topic of link-buying on a number of occasions on his blog (Mattcutts.com/blog) and in blog comments elsewhere. He’s admonished webmasters who buy links for PageRank and encouraged webmasters instead to buy only links that have been “nofollowed” — in other words, where the rel=nofollow attribute has been added to the link so that the search engines do not count that link as a vote. He has stated in no uncertain terms that Google considers “buying text links for PageRank purposes to be outside our quality guidelines.”
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Search Engine Strategies — Chicago, IL
This session explores how specialized blog and feed (RSS/Atom) search engines gather content and provides tips on tapping into these growing forms of traffic.
Moderator:
Detlev Johnson, VP, Director of Consulting, Position Technologies
Speakers:
Amanda Watlington, Ph.D., APR, Searching for Profit
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts, LLC
Rick Klau, FeedBurner
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Credit Demystified was designed to help visitors become credit savvy. Dedicated to providing simple answers to complicated credit questions, Credit Demystified provides free articles, workbooks, and links to home loan options. Built on behalf of Countrywide Home Loans, the site is designed to make the most of Web 2.0 opportunities, and like all Netconcepts’ websites it is search engine optimal.
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Visit the site: Credit Demystified
Further reading: Credit Demystified Press Release
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House of Travel is New Zealand’s largest independent chain of travel agents. Fully 20% of total sales are transacted online, so their website is a very important part of their business.
It was our vision that social media, blogging in particular, could play a pivotal role in House of Travel’s online marketing strategy. Happily, our enthusiasm for blogging for marketing was contagious and House of Travel enlisted Netconcepts’ help in their blog strategy and implementation.
The House of Travel blog provides insight on travel destinations through the sharing of personal experiences from House of Travel travel agents and associated staff. The blog is both entertaining and educational for would-be travellers. Most entries include photos. The blog has multiple authors, and is organized by staffers’ journeys, by destination, as well as by date. Multiple RSS feeds are available.
Charles Coxhead, Online Marketing Manager at House of Travel, states that the blog “started out very much as an experiment but quickly proved itself and we now consider it an integral part of our content and ecommerce strategy.”
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Visit the site: House Of Travel Blog
Further reading: Case study, Testimonial, Computerworld Article
“As you know it [the blog] started out very much as an experiment, but quickly proved itself and we now consider it an integral part of our content and comms strategy. And it will become increasingly important. From very early on it earned a better Google PR than our main site even…. the organic search traffic is growing along with the SERPs, and it definitely ranks better than the rest of our site for certain keywords.”
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Join our founder and president, Stephan Spencer, in this archived webinar of an information-packed 90-minutes of link building secrets. The webinar, for MarketingProfs.com, was called “Google in the Real World: How Links Boost Your Ranking”.
Watch it as a streaming Flash video »
Or, alternatively download/watch as a Quicktime movie (72 MB).
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