Black Swan has been providing consumers with Home, Hearth and Gift products for over 28 years. Black Swan was looking to take their web presence to the next level and selected Netconcepts GravityMarket solution.
The new website offers a sleek design on top of a search optimal ecommerce structure. Black Swan enjoys a robust content management system that allows for the balance of the site’s content to be updated via web interface. The site also provides RSS feeds of featured products, which open up an additional communication channel to customers.
With this new site design and structure, Black Swan is sure to be heating up the Internet.
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PoolDawg.com, one of Netconcepts clients, was recently featured in an online article through InternetRetailer.com.
“A year ago, PoolDawg traded in its modified version of an “off-the-shelf” e-commerce platform for a completely new platform from Netconcepts. The Netconcepts GravityMarket 2.0 e-commerce platform offers a flexible design that, for example, supports the placement of content that has proven to help shoppers complete purchases, Feiman says.”
Read the article here. For more information about PoolDawg.com’s success, read the PoolDawg.com Case Study.
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MarketingProfs Virtual Seminars — online
Got a large, complex, database-driven website? Then you’re in luck, because such a site represents the best opportunity for capturing visitors from search engines such as Google. That’s because a large site has so much of what the engines love - content!
In this MarketingProfs seminar, you will gain best practices, invaluable tactics (such as “thin slicing”) and quick-hit tips and tricks. And you’ll discover what to avoid. All with real-world examples from major websites - both commercial and non-commercial.
- How to expand into countless keyword markets
- How to get many more pages indexed
- How to optimize your HTML templates and CSS to make those pages “sing” to the search engines
- How to pass your PageRank much more effectively through your site
- How to build deep links to internal pages, not just to your home page
- How to measure success using new (and little-known!) metrics and KPIs
Speakers:
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts
Chris Smith, Lead Search Strategist, Netconcepts
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The first video seen below is the original 90-minute webinar featuring Stephan Spencer and Chris Smith. (The Quicktime file is 112 MB)
The second video is the Q&A section of the webinar, which was so long we did it as a separate recording, lasting 105 minutes. (The Quicktime file is 205 MB)

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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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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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