SEO Articles

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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During this rich presentation, spanning SEO (Search Engine Optimization) fundamentals as well as advanced tricks and tactics that only the elite SEO experts know, you’ll learn how to…

• Check your “Google Pulse”
• Estimate missed opportunity costs
• Ensure Google crawls 100% of your site, including dynamic pages
• Design your pages to dominate rankings
• Avoid getting banned by Google
• Wield invaluable SEO tools you’ve not yet heard of
• Build high-quality links from trusted sites, and boost your PageRank along with your rankings
• Prepare for changes to come… and so much more!

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In this article Stephan Spencer, President and Founder of Netconcepts, writes about the most, common mistakes that bloggers make, and what to do about them. From title tag optimization to keyword URLs, you’ll want to read this article to optimize your personal or business blog to help your blog increase its search visibility.

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The growth of Wikipedia and its almost ubiquitous presence on search results pages means that search marketers can’t ignore this important guide. This session looks at appropriate ways to interact with the service. It also examines if there’s more that can be done to make Wikipedia editors more accepting of marketers and to make marketers more understanding of the Wikipedia community goals.

Speakers:
Neil Patel, Co-founder, ACS
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts, LLC
Jonathan Hochman, Founder/President, JE Hochman & Associates LLC
Don Steele, Director of Digital & Enterprise Marketing, Comedy Central

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Not yet running a blog? Not syndicating your content through web feeds? Then you’re missing out on an important area that can help your overall SEO efforts. Learn more about the unique advantages blogs and feeds offer to search engine optimization.

Speakers:
Greg Jarboe, President and Co-Founder, SEO-PR
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts, LLC
Rick Klau, Strategic Partner Development, Google
Doug Hay, Principal & CEO, Expansion Plus Inc.

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In this article on Natural Search Blog, Chris Smith reports on his session experience from SES: San Jose on Universal and Blended Vertical Search. Google Engineer David Bailey, who is “a top engineer at Google who’s been working on the blended search results page for the past year, and he previously worked at Amazon.com and Junglee,” spoke about the Google OneBox and other issues related to search.

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Regular search engines can’t understand text trapped within images, and this session looks at strategies to combat this problem for the image-intensive site. It also examines how to generate traffic using your images via image-specific search engines.

Speakers:
Liana Evans, Search Marketing Manager, Commerce360
Chris Smith, Lead Search Strategist, Netconcepts
Shari Thurow, Founder & SEO, Omni Marketing Interactive
Cris Pierry, Director of Web & Multi-Media Search, Yahoo! Search
James Jeude, Senior Product Manager, Ask.com

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“The meta description is an important element of your on-page SEO, yet its value is often underrated. Viewing everything in terms of search engine ranking impact blinds us to the opportunity that meta descriptions present search marketers,” writes Stephan Spencer, President of Netconcepts. Stephan reminds us, in this article on his C|Net blog entitled, “Searchlight: an SEO Blog,” that meta descriptions shouldn’t be overlooked and they are quite valuable to SEO. To read more about meta descriptions with some pertinent examples, click here to read the full article.

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“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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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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