Web Analytics online marketing

Interactive Marketing: Reaching Customers

UW Wisconsin Madison, Executive Education, Interactive Marketing — Madison, WI

June 18th, 2007

Workshop by Stephan Spencer

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

Web analytics

Speakers:
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts

Spread the word: delicious this:Interactive Marketing: Reaching Customers digg this:Interactive Marketing: Reaching Customers spurl this:Interactive Marketing: Reaching Customers furl this:Interactive Marketing: Reaching Customers reddit this:Interactive Marketing: Reaching Customers Add to Y!:Interactive Marketing: Reaching Customers

SEO: Metrics That Matter

June 17th, 2007

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Practical eCommerce

“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.

Continue reading »

Spread the word: delicious this:SEO: Metrics That Matter digg this:SEO: Metrics That Matter spurl this:SEO: Metrics That Matter furl this:SEO: Metrics That Matter reddit this:SEO: Metrics That Matter Add to Y!:SEO: Metrics That Matter

Case Study: House Of Travel

June 10th, 2007

House Of Travel logo

  • A 6 fold increase in website sales generated as a result of online advertising over the same period
  • A near doubling of overall return on investment in online advertising, from 6.7:1 in mid-2005 to an average of 12.2:1 in early 2006
  • On 6 April 2006, the House of Travel website was named one of New Zealand’s top websites in the NetGuide People’s choice Web Awards, with www.houseoftravel.co.nz being awarded the 2006 title of “Best Travel Site”
Continue reading »

Spread the word: delicious this:Case Study: House Of Travel digg this:Case Study: House Of Travel spurl this:Case Study: House Of Travel furl this:Case Study: House Of Travel reddit this:Case Study: House Of Travel Add to Y!:Case Study: House Of Travel

SEO: Google Cracks Open Its Black Box

April 16th, 2007

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Practical eCommerce

Wouldn’t it be great if Google offered insight into how your website stacks up against its super-secret algorithms? What ails your site when it comes to SEO and what could be done better? Google Webmaster Central does just that, by offering a plethora of diagnostic and statistical tools, advice, answers and peer support to SEOs and webmasters.

Continue reading »

Spread the word: delicious this:SEO: Google Cracks Open Its Black Box digg this:SEO: Google Cracks Open Its Black Box spurl this:SEO: Google Cracks Open Its Black Box furl this:SEO: Google Cracks Open Its Black Box reddit this:SEO: Google Cracks Open Its Black Box Add to Y!:SEO: Google Cracks Open Its Black Box

Jeff Muendel shares MySpace marketing tips

April 16th, 2007

In this interview, Stephan Spencer sits down with Netconcepts’ analyst Jeff Muendel, to talk about MySpace marketing tips. Learn how to utilize this social media tool to market your business, expose your brand, and make friends!

 
icon for podpress  Interview with Jeff Muendel about MySpace Marketing [25:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Spread the word: delicious this:Jeff Muendel shares MySpace marketing tips digg this:Jeff Muendel shares MySpace marketing tips spurl this:Jeff Muendel shares MySpace marketing tips furl this:Jeff Muendel shares MySpace marketing tips reddit this:Jeff Muendel shares MySpace marketing tips Add to Y!:Jeff Muendel shares MySpace marketing tips

Web 2.0 for Publishers

January 30th, 2007

In this presentation to The Wisconsin Publishers’ Production Club’s (WPPC) Catalog Innovations meeting in January, Netconcepts’ Director of E-Business, Hershel Reese explains how Web 2.0 has great implications for catalogers and publishers online.

RSS feeds are changing the way people are consuming their media. You need to stay on top of this channel in order to remain competitive online.

Web 2.0 is also changing the way people interact with web properties. The user generated content phenomena is helping site owners to actively engage an audience and build community online.

This presentation will also discuss how one online publisher, www.dmnews.com, is leveraging the Web 2.0 tool kit.

Social Media Sites are emerging as a channel to be reckoned with online. If you are not participating in these communities you are missing opportunities for increased brand recognition and traffic to your sites.

You Will Discover:

  • Best practices for RSS usage
  • The benefits of user generated content
  • Why tagging matters for website owners
  • How industry leaders are leveraging Web 2.0
  • How social media can bump up your traffic and impressions

This presentation was originally held on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at The Country Springs Hotel in Pewaukee, WI.

 
icon for podpress  Interview with Hershel Reese and Web 2.0 [37:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Spread the word: delicious this:Web 2.0 for Publishers digg this:Web 2.0 for Publishers spurl this:Web 2.0 for Publishers furl this:Web 2.0 for Publishers reddit this:Web 2.0 for Publishers Add to Y!:Web 2.0 for Publishers

Beneath the Surface of Search

January 1st, 2007

by Brian Klais

Originally published in Multichannel Merchant

It’s 2007 already. If you are like most merchants, you’ve followed the advice of your NSO firm and completed some basic site optimization projects. You routinely spot check your Google indexation, and your rankings on 100 or so “trophy” keywords to show your executive team. And a look at your web analytics shows your natural search channel sales growing. So what’s wrong with this picture?
Let the Long Tail of natural search and KPI metrics strengthen your website through best practice SEO.

Continue reading »

Spread the word: delicious this:Beneath the Surface of Search digg this:Beneath the Surface of Search spurl this:Beneath the Surface of Search furl this:Beneath the Surface of Search reddit this:Beneath the Surface of Search Add to Y!:Beneath the Surface of Search

Replace by Referrer 1.0

December 30th, 2006

The WordPress plugin “Replace by Referrer”, written by Charlie Evans, Sr. Developer at Netconcepts, was designed for a client who had advanced tracking capabilities in place but no way to utilize them. When prospect phone calls came in they wanted to know which search engine referred them. Additionally, they wanted to offer a different phone number displayed for each search engine. The Replace by Referrer plugin was developed to automatically replace defined text on pages and posts within content depending on search engine referrer.

If Google refers a visitor to your site, a custom phone number (specific to Google traffic) or a custom link (to a specific Google referred landing page) will be displayed to that visitor. The same technology can be applied to MSN (rebranded as Live Search), Yahoo, and all other search engines as well without having multiple pages for each search engine.

It is completely free and has been released as “open source” under the GPL license. So enjoy!

Features include:

  • Allows you to replace specific text strings in pages and posts with search engine specific referrer content.
  • Session identification specific to search engine. Replace by Referrer remembers which search engine the visitor came from throughout your entire site.
  • And best of all, it’s FREE!

Download the plugin!

Installation instructions

  1. Upload replace_by_referrer.php to your wp-content/plugins directory.
  2. Activate the plugin.
  3. Go to Plugin Editor
  4. Click the “Replace by Referrer” file in the right hand column
  5. Scroll down to “// comment about this replacement” (See example below)

    // comment about this replacement
    '{test1}' => array(
        'google' => 'google1',
        'msn' => 'msn1',
        'yahoo' => 'yahoo1',
        'default' => 'default1',
    )

    Replace google1, msn1, yahoo1, or default1 with any text string.

    For Example:
    // comment about this replacement
    '{test1}' => array(
        'google' => '1-888-207-1109',
        'msn' => '<a href="http://www.netconcepts.com">netconcepts</a>',
        'yahoo' => '<img src="http://www.example_image_URL.com" />',
        'default' => 'This default text would appear in place of {test1} if the referrer is not Google, MSN, or Yahoo',
    )

  6. When you have everything configured, insert {test1} within a post or page where ever you want the specified text seen above to appear.

Note: In the example seen above, if Google were the referrer, {test1} would appear as “1-888-207-1109″, if MSN were the referrer, {test1} would appear as netconcepts, etc.

To-do

  • Configure all the referrers and replacements via the WordPress options menu in the Admin, as opposed to hardcoded in the plugin.
  • Modify the code so that you can serve the text string based on referring keyword, as opposed to referring by search engine.

Feedback?

Got a bug to report? Or an enhancement to recommend? Or perhaps even some code to submit for inclusion in the next release? Great! Share your feedback by commenting to this post.

Spread the word: delicious this:Replace by Referrer 1.0 digg this:Replace by Referrer 1.0 spurl this:Replace by Referrer 1.0 furl this:Replace by Referrer 1.0 reddit this:Replace by Referrer 1.0 Add to Y!:Replace by Referrer 1.0

What it means to be an online marketer

October 1st, 2006

by Jacqui Jones

Originally published in NZ Marketing

As a brand owner, it is important to recognize the role in which search marketing plays in the wider marketing mix and understand that it is more than sprinkling a handful of keywords on pages. Natural search marketing or search engine optimization is more than just keywords.

Continue reading »

Spread the word: delicious this:What it means to be an online marketer digg this:What it means to be an online marketer spurl this:What it means to be an online marketer furl this:What it means to be an online marketer reddit this:What it means to be an online marketer Add to Y!:What it means to be an online marketer

Analyze This

July 1st, 2003

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Unlimited

An online wine shop used metrics to improve its web marketing. It broke its visitors into five distinct segments and found that one segment comprised less than 10% of its audience but accounted for over 80% of its revenue. Track the following metrics for your site and use the data to make improvements.

Continue reading »

Spread the word: delicious this:Analyze This digg this:Analyze This spurl this:Analyze This furl this:Analyze This reddit this:Analyze This Add to Y!:Analyze This

Pages (3): « 1 [2] 3 »


Related tags

and/or
and/or
and/or
and/or

Newsletter

Web marketing virtuoso Stephan Spencer, shares a wealth of emarketing experience and hard-hitting, practical advice in our monthly newsletter. It's full of valuable insights...You should subscribe.








Latest posts
Latest comments


Contact Us

HEADQUARTERS
2820 Walton Commons West, Suite 123
Madison, WI 53718 USA
Phone: (608) 285-6600
Toll-free: 888 207-1109

REGIONAL OFFICE
36 Anzac Rd., Browns Bay
Auckland, New Zealand
Phone: (+64) 9 476-4601
infodesk@netconcepts.com