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Yahoo brings the locals together

August 17th, 2007

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Searchlight : An SEO blog by C|Net

“What do you get when you mix social media and local search?” asks Stephan Spencer, President of Netconcepts. In this article, posted on C|Net’s Searchlight: an SEO Blog, Stephan talks about how Yahoo! has opened up new features to blend social interaction on a local level, and how it will affect local businesses. For more information on this interesting subject, click here to read the article.

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Geolocation: Core To The Local Space And Key To Click-Fraud Detection

August 13th, 2007

by Chris Smith

Originally published in Search Engine Land

Geolocation is bandied about quite a bit when discussing aspects of online marketing with location-specific components, but many are blurry as to how it works and how it’s being used, so I thought it’d be helpful to outline the basics of it, and to highlight some of the recent developments brought via the expansion of wifi and mobile device use that have improved its precision. Geolocation is coming into broader and broader usage in enhancing the user experience for local search and mobile applications, and it has quietly become a vital component to the policing of fraud—particularly for credit card validation and filtering of PPC advertising clicks.

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Google News comments likely to be panned by major corporations

August 8th, 2007

by Chris Smith

Originally published in Natural Search Blog

Sometimes Google’s announcements get lost in the shuffle. “Google today introduced a new experimental feature in their News - they’ve added story participant comments into their listings of stories.” In this article, Chris Smith talks about his thoughts and reactions to Google’s decision to allow comments on their news, and how it relates to other companies. Read more about Chris’ thoughts in the article here, and learn how comment-enabling might benefit your company.

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Forget babysitting and paper routes, teen turns to SEO

August 1st, 2007

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Searchlight: An SEO Blog by C|Net

Ever wonder whether or not it’s possible to make money blogging? Well, this teen has made blogging for dollars a reality. Stephan covers his daughter Chloe’s presentation at the 2007 BlogHer conference in Chicago. In this popular article, featured on C|Net’s Searchlight: An SEO Blog, Stephan talks about Chloe’s experiences with WordPress, her love for Neopets, and what it takes to turn a blog into an asset. You can also watch the highlights from Chloe’s presentation in his article as well. To read more about how “SEO is not inaccessible; in fact, it’s so easy, that a child can do it!” click here.

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New Google Analytics still poor experience

August 1st, 2007

by Chris Smith

Originally published in Natural Search Blog

Have you accessed the new Google analytics package yet? Chris Smith gives us an inside look at usability in this article from the Natural Search Blog. Chris calls the new analytics “upgrade” as being “All glitz with little beneficial substance.” Read more about the updated Google Analytics from an SEO expert point-of-view.

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Red Envelope’s Website Critique

August 1st, 2007

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Multichannel Merchant

In Chinese society, “red envelope” refers to a monetary gift placed in a red packet because the color symbolizes good luck. That’s where Red Envelope got its name. Was the San Francisco-based gifts merchant lucky with the results of its Website critique? Well, while critiquers Amy Africa, president of Helena, VT-based Web consultancy Eight by Eight, and Stephan Spencer, founder/president of Madison, WI-based SEO-specialist agency Netconcepts, tried to handle Red Envelope’s site with care, they both found areas that need serious improvement. Africa reviewed the site’s content and functionality, and Spencer tested its search capability. Here’s what they had to say.

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If Harry Potter Did SEO

August 1st, 2007

by Patricia Fusco

Originally published in ClickZ

All good fairy tales begin with the words, “Once upon a time…” In this fantasy-meets-reality tale, Patricia Fusco weaves a story about SEO from the perspective of Harry Potter. This is a high-level, historical overview of SEO that brings us up to the present. Whether you’re an SEO wizard or not, this article helps bring us to a new understanding of SEO by relating it to a part of “pop culture.”

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Google Maps adds Microformat support to results

July 31st, 2007

by Chris Smith

Originally published in Natural Search Blog

Chris writes that, “Google Maps team announced support of the hCard microformat today in map search results.” How will microformats benefit local search? Find out in this interesting article posted on the Natural Search Blog. You can read the full article here.

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Scalable On-Page SEO Strategies

July 26th, 2007

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Search Engine Land

Optimizing a website that has tens of thousands—or even hundreds of thousands—of dynamically generated pages, requires thinking differently. Old school SEO, where you assign each page a keyword theme based on keyword research and hand-craft a title tag, H1 tag and intro copy, then figure out the best internal links to send to the page, just doesn’t scale with big sites. Particularly when you’re talking about the magnitude that our Netconcepts clients are operating at—typically over 10,000 SKUs and over 100,000 indexed pages.

It’s essential that you focus your SEO efforts in such a way that the effects will cascade through your site.

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The Simpsons & Great Participatory-Viral Marketing

July 23rd, 2007

by Netconcepts

Originally published in Natural Search Blog

“The Dallas Kwik-E-Mart is one of the eleven created nationwide out of 7-Eleven stores, and it’s a simply fantastic piece of viral marketing, participatory marketing – and yes, linkbait,” writes Chris Smith in this article on the Natural Search Blog. Viral marketing and link bait are today’s buzzwords in search, and what better way to glean ideas for your business than to see a successful campaign in action? Find out what happens when TV-meets-reality in this interesting experiment, and what it could mean for you. You can read the article here.

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