Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts founder and president, writes a site review for Modernmini–a modern-style baby store–in this article. His in-depth review covers ten specific examples, including how error pages can negatively effect a website, as well as other search engine optimization talking points. Find out how basic SEO techniques like keyword prominence and simple HTML tags can help this modern mom’s baby furniture store website.
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Link bait, simply put, is content that is so funny, so interesting, so useful, or otherwise remarkable that it becomes irresistible to bloggers and website owners, who set up links from their pages to the original material. I’ve seen link bait take the form of Top 10 lists, humorous videos uploaded to YouTube, checklists, cartoons, tools, widgets and blog plugins — to name just a few.
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For the world’s foremost outdoor outfitter, Cabela’s, ecommerce landing page have made all the difference. Derek Fortna, Marketing Program Manager for Cabela’s, has been implementing best-practice search friendly marketing since his switch to Netconcepts’ GravityStream platform.
“With the earlier system, he says, “If I’m a user searching for boat trailer parts, I can’t buy from that page, I have to make another click to go into the web site to make a purchase. With the GravityStream proxy, if I find what I want I can place the order right there.”
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For more information about Cabela’s success with Netconcepts, read the Cabela’s Case Study.
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“Hats off to Kyle for showing such initiative,” writes Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts in his latest website review for 17-year old Kyle Kano, owner and operator of “The Honey Jar.” Find out how to grow a small, home-based business into a tough competitor by adding product-level pages, link-building strategies, and intelligent body copy.
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AMA Search Engine Marketing — San Francisco, CA
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.
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Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts
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In this article Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts, reviews a website of a seasonal company offering tips to increase rankings and online marketing for organic search. Stephan writes, “Competing for organic search visibility during the holiday shopping season requires a ramp-up in online marketing — namely, link building and link baiting — many months in advance. It should start now, in fact.”
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Ward’s appears to have done some search engine optimization (SEO), and it was a good start, but I discovered costly mistakes and much opportunity yet untapped. Currently its site is not present in the first five pages of Google for key terms such as “lab equipment” and “lab supplies” or for category names such as “microscopes” and “chemicals.”
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Eric Ward has been link building since the early 1990’s and well before the days of Google’s PageRank. His client list includes such large companies as Amazon.com and the Discovery Channel.
Listen to this 36-minute interview, as AMA conference chair Stephan Spencer pulls some great link building tips and tricks out of Eric.
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New sites are always at a disadvantage when it comes to ranking well in Google, particularly when the domain name is new, too. This phenomenon, known by some as the “Google Sandbox” and by others as the “TrustBox,” is not a myth. It is very real and very much an issue for the subject of this issue’s SEO Report Card - the fair trade supporting merchant “Two Hands Worldshop.”
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Join our founder and president, Stephan Spencer, along with renowned link builder Eric Ward, in this archived webinar of an information-packed 90-minutes of link building tips and tricks. The webinar, for MarketingProfs.com, was called “Inside Secrets to Building Links for Online Publicity, Buzz and Search Engine Optimization”. It was a follow-on to Stephan’s webinar for MarketingProfs 6 months prior, on the topic of boosting Google rankings through links (also available as a 90-minute screencast).
Watch Stephan and Eric’s webinar as a streaming Flash video »
Or, alternatively download/watch as a Quicktime (m4v) movie (169 MB) or as a Windows Media (wmv) file (59 MB).
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