In this website audit published on Practical eCommerce, Netconcepts’ founder and President Stephan Spencer reviews one of the Internet Retailer 500 companies, Beachaudio.com. Stephan’s review came at a key moment for their business; they had performed an SEO overhaul of their site back in April.
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Stephan Spencer writes, “The more effectively you delegate, the faster you will excel in your career. Even if you don’t have any direct reports in your job function—perhaps you are in an entry-level marketing assistant position—you can still delegate by having one or more virtual assistants, or “VAs.” In this article, Stephan talks about how savvy resource management can affect your bottom line.
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Bryan Eisenberg is an inventor of Persuasion Architecture™, a process that helps persuade customers to make a decision on your website when traditional marketing methods fail. He is also the co-founders and CPO (Chief Persuasion Officer) of Future Now, Inc., a company that helps bridge the gap between businesses and customers through an in-depth understanding of what the customer wants.
Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts’ founder and president, interviewed Bryan about personas and persuasion architecture. Read more about how this unique insight will help you understand how to convert views into sales.
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“Search engine optimizing for the “Long Tail” is fundamentally different from optimizing for the head. Therefore, it’s important to initially point out that the strategies and tactics for “Long Tail” SEO are more automated and extensible than for traditional SEO,” writes Stephan Spencer, President and Founder of Netconcepts. In this article about the “head” vs the “long tail,” Stephan writes about how you can capture the “long tail” to help your site.
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Colorado science teacher, marketing guru, and Netconcepts’ GravityMarket client, Steve Spangler sits down with Simona Covel, reporter for the Wall Street Journal to discuss his blog’s successful impact on his business.
In this interview, Steve discusses how Netconcepts has helped him over-achieve his business goals by rebuilding his original ecommerce site and later creating a powerful blog to fuel his viral online success.
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In this article written by Chris Smith, lead strategist for Netconcepts, he takes a hard look at spending your PPC budget on search ads that use your company’s brand name (and variations thereof) as keywords. Read more and find out why it’s important to promote your brand through paid search.
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As a recently turned vegetarian (as of a year ago), I’m definitely in the target market. Too bad it’s unlikely I would have discovered the site. That’s because I’m not strictly vegan, and the site isn’t targeting “vegetarian” as a keyword. The only occurrence of “vegetarian” on the home page is in the meta keywords — and meta keywords don’t affect rankings (at least not positively!).
Stephan Spencer, founder and President of Netconcepts, reviews Veganstore.com in this article from Practical eCommerce.
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While we may be having fun in the lazy days of summer, Patricia Fusco reminds us that it’s time to get ready for the holidays. She writes, “We know the holidays are upon us when a quick trip to the mall or a leisurely stroll down Main Street assaults our senses with dazzlingly festive displays. An e-commerce Web site is no different. It’s time to prep Web window dressings to reflect shifts in buying habits during the holiday season.”
To read advice on how online retailers should prepare their ecommerce business for the holidays, click here.
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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.
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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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