SEO and Articles

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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“If you’ve been keeping track of this series, you’re well on your way to crafting a strategic SEO plan for your Web site,” writes Patricia Fusco, lead strategist for Netconcepts. The last article in this informative and enticing series, SEO Site Analysis: Knowing the Score, Part 4 helps us tie key concepts together from the knowledge we’ve gained, in order to recognize trends and patterns. Patricia also takes our assessments a step further, by encouraging us to create practical “action plans” to improve our website’s SEO, based on our instruction from the previous articles in this series.

Read the article here, and determine how you can implement intelligent changes on your website after following Patricia’s step-by-step process.

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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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“Wikipedia’s importance as an authority site is undisputed,” writes Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts. In this article, Stephan bridges the gap between SEO and Wikipedia and, as an added bonus, offers an in-depth analysis of best practices for this powerful tool.

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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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“As earlier reported this year, Google launched a premier edition of Google Apps which included email service, calendars, SSO services, instant messaging, spreadsheets, and more. One interesting detail of their recent promotions of Apps is how they’re pushing this out to schools, in both free and paid “premier” service options,” writes Chris Smith, lead GravityStream strategist for Netconcepts. In this article, Chris draws the connection between Google Apps and Microsoft Office, and how the education sector is impacted by both financially.

Who might win the long-term fight over office applications and how do colleges play into the battle? Read the article here and find out.

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Patricia Fusco, lead strategist for Netconcepts, has prepared us to assess our website’s quality by “reviewing site URL structures, linking structure, and navigation” in parts one and two of her series entitled, “SEO Site Analysis: Knowing the Score.”

In this article, we are now ready to look at the nuts and bolts of search engine optimization by determining how our website’s keywords play into our content for search engine referrals. From title tags to meta descriptions, you will learn how to polish your website’s SEO by reviewing (and editing) common errors.

Read Part 3 of this article here, and deepen your understanding of your website’s SEO and overall quality.

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“The practices of domaining and subdomaining have steadily grown into increasingly hot topics in the local search marketing space for the past few years,” writes Chris Smith, lead GravityStream strategist for Netconcepts. In this engaging two-part article, Chris addresses the difference between domaining, or “domains mainly for their potential keyword value,” and subdomaining, which is the “practice of delivering sections of content on sites under third-level domain names.”

Whether you’re buying domains to rank well for keywords or are considering the purchase of a subdomain for your site, this article takes a closer look at the benefits (and drawbacks) of each and how these practices relate to search.

In Part One of this article, read about the practice of subdomaining here.

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Now that YouTube is more popular than all the sites of the TV networks combined, you may wonder whether broadcast TV’s days are numbered. It may well become more important for your brand or company to be on YouTube than to be advertised on TV. Undoubtedly for some that day has already arrived. With Google having acquired YouTube, certainly it has a heck of a lot more resources at its disposal. You can bet that YouTube will be one of the major players in consumer-generated media for years to come.

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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.

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