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Search engines also love fresh content, and blogs, by definition, are constant sources of new content. If written correctly – or more specifically interestingly – blogs can also provide wider link bait and garner links from outside the blogosphere. Search engines, of course, reward for good, inbound links regardless of whether they’re from other blogs.

Jeff Muendel, Natural Search Analyst for Netconcepts, recommends that eCommerce sites take full advantage of WordPress, a blogging platform that offers a host of SEO-friendly options to allow for excellent search engine optimization. To read more about Jeff’s expert advice about WordPress and plug-ins, like the Yahoo! Shortcuts for WordPress plugin, visit the full article on Practical eCommerce.

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Do you want add a blog for your business but have no idea how to get started? In this article written by PJ Fusco, lead strategist for Netconcepts, she covers the common questions online retailers have as they think about the benefits and drawbacks of joining the blogosphere and offers her expertise.

One of the questions she covers is: Will blogging really help?

If the blog is optimally created and maintained, with a transparent, sincere voice and a commitment to using it to build relationships as well as links, then, yes, it will help. How much? That depends on how much the company is willing to invest in developing relationships with customers and prospects in the blogosphere. The only time blogging can really hurt is if the bloggers are insincere and dishonest and ignore their audience, or if your company has a god-awful online reputation in the first place. If you’re in a war of attrition over your company’s online reputation, it’s going to take a heck of a lot more than a simple blog to fix the mess you’re in.

For more about this topic, visit the full article about getting started in blogging at ClickZ.

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Netconcepts founder and president Stephan Spencer discusses the mystery of link-building. Links can influence ranking and play an important role in natural search optimization. To get a jump on the competition, online retailers need to build valuable links over time and resist paid links schemes which search engines frown upon. Quality links can increase search engine ranking.

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A survey by Netconcepts of leading-brand online retailers showed a 28% increase in natural search traffic from Monday November 19, 2007 to the Monday after Thanksgiving, November 26th. The 30 retailers surveyed consist of Netconcepts clients, who dominate the top 200 of the Internet Retailer list of Top 500 online retailers. Their search traffic increased an average of 14.5% for the season week-over-week, up from 9% in 2006.

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Learn the best tips, tools, and techniques for non-traditional optimization for both indexing as well as ranking support. This includes files such as PDFs, docs, podcasts and RSS feeds.

Panelists:
Rick Klau, Strategic Partner Development Content Acquisition, Google
Stephan Spencer, Founder & President, Netconcepts
George Aspland, Founder & President, eVision

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Facebook.com — a company that less than a year ago looked like fools for not accepting Yahoo’s bid to purchase it — has become the powerhouse of social media websites. It’s been said that much of the success is due simply to Facebook being the latest in a string of recently-hip online socialization sites, with MySpace being the last destination to peek out and then slow as the “true hipsters” move on, drawing the semi-hip behind them. A large part of that rise, however, has been Facebook’s open source policy with regard to the creation of Facebook applications. The result has been twofold: A huge demand for fun and informative applications and the corresponding, explosive proliferation of applications created for the site.

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A recap of this panel at SMX that Netconcepts Founder and President Stephan Spencer presented on. Moderated by Danny Sullivan, Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, Search Engine Land, the panel which included Lise Broer “Durova”, Administrator, Wikipedia, Jonathan Hochman, Founder/President, Hochman Consultants, Matt McGee, SEO Manager, Marchex and Don Steele, Director of Digital & Enterprise Marketing, Comedy Central. The focus of the discussion were tips on how to engage with end-users delicately to manage your brand.

Read the full recap here at WebProNews.

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Panelists:
Andy Beal, Marketing Pilgrim
Vanessa Fox, Zillow.com
Aaron Wall, SEOBook.com
Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts

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Wikipedia is powerful. Concerned about how your company or service is portrayed? Wikipedia experts answer your questions and take you live to the site for advice on how to interact with the service.

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In this article written by Kate DeBevois, Senior Associate Editor for Target Marketing, the spotlight turns on GravityStream. Derek Fortna, Cabela’s Marketing Programs Manager, reports on GravityStream’s implementation and success.

With its Web site approaching 50,000 product pages and more than 200,000 unique products, such as “hunting socks,” “compound bows” and “riflescope accessories,” the company required a more robust natural search solution. So it turned to software provider Netconcepts to update its site with GravityStream, a natural search management platform that helped Cabela’s gain a real-time, Web-crawler version of its site and allowed the company to optimize existing pages without rebuilding the entire site. This resulted in a 200 percent traffic increase and a 50 percent online sales increase within the first six months of implementation. Continue reading »

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