UW Wisconsin Madison, Executive Education, Interactive Marketing — Madison, WI
Search engine marketing
Creating a buzz — viral marketing
Web analytics
Speakers:
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts
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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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Search Engine Strategies 2007 Canada — Toronto, Canada
Syndication technology (RSS) makes it easier to build an audience for your content, because your readers or listeners become subscribers using non-intrusive “feed readers.” An overview of the growth of RSS plus a special focus on podcasting. This session will also include tips on blogging and podcasting for (a) profit; (b) credibility and reach.
Moderator:
Ian McAnerin, CEO, McAnerin Networks Inc.
Speakers:
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts, LLC
Mitch Joel, President , Twist Image
Amanda Watlington, Ph.D., APR, Searching for Profit
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SMX Advanced — Seattle, WA
No more secrets time. In this session, our panel of noted SEOs all share some of their favorite and largely overlooked SEO tips. Then we turn to the audience for more sharing. Attendees vow not to blog what’s discussed (on your honor now!). Matt Cutts and his mighty notebook might be barred from the room. Alternatively, any search reps found lurking have to give up a secret of their own or head for the hallway.
Moderator:
Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, Search Engine Land
Speakers:
Greg Boser, Search Engine Marketing Consultant, WebGuerrilla
Bruce Clay, President, Bruce Clay, Inc.
Todd Friesen, Director of Search Engine Optimization, Range Online
Mike Grehan, Founder and CEO, Searchvisible Ltd.
Jennifer Slegg, Owner, JenSense.com
Stephan Spencer, President, Netconcepts, LLC
Mikkel deMib Svendsen, Creative Director, deMib.com
Shari Thurow, Webmaster & Marketing Dir., Grantastic Designs
Jill Whalen, CEO and Founder, High Rankings
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In this article, Netconcepts Founder and President, Stephan Spencer, contributes his critique of a snowboarding business called Daddiesboardshop.com, in order to flesh out opportunities for search engine optimization. Stephan gives technical examples as he writes about URL rewriting, page duplication, link building, pull-down menus and domain hosting to address major fixes that would help improve Daddiesboardshop.com’s overall search engine visibility.
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AMA Search Engine Marketing — New York, NY
It’s critical to understand search engine visitors if you want to market to them. Which search engines do they prefer? What words are they using? Where do they look on the screen and where do they click? What stage in the buying process are they in? How does all this differ for B2B versus B2C?
This session will provide a critical overview of…
Speaker:
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts
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AMA Search Engine Marketing — New York, NY
The bedrock of website optimization is its content, and presenting that content in an advantageous manner to search engines in order to better draw referral traffic. In addition, the manner in which content is linked internally within a site can influence its rankings and define whether that content will be indexed and findable through search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. This session will cover some basic points about optimizing a site’s content, illustrated by a few real-world examples from a major commercial website.
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