Web Development Website Audits Seminars

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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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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As a recently turned vegetarian (as of a year ago), I’m definitely in the target market. Too bad it’s unlikely I would have discovered the site. That’s because I’m not strictly vegan, and the site isn’t targeting “vegetarian” as a keyword. The only occurrence of “vegetarian” on the home page is in the meta keywords — and meta keywords don’t affect rankings (at least not positively!).

Stephan Spencer, founder and President of Netconcepts, reviews Veganstore.com in this article from Practical eCommerce.

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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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Got a large, complex, database-driven website? Then you’re in luck, because such a site represents the best opportunity for capturing visitors from search engines such as Google. That’s because a large site has so much of what the engines love - content!

In this MarketingProfs seminar, you will gain best practices, invaluable tactics (such as “thin slicing”) and quick-hit tips and tricks. And you’ll discover what to avoid. All with real-world examples from major websites - both commercial and non-commercial.

• How to expand into countless keyword markets
• How to get many more pages indexed
• How to optimize your HTML templates and CSS to make those pages “sing” to the search engines
• How to pass your PageRank much more effectively through your site
• How to build deep links to internal pages, not just to your home page
• How to measure success using new (and little-known!) metrics and KPIs

Speakers:
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts
Chris Smith, Lead Search Strategist, Netconcepts

Video:
The first video seen below is the original 90-minute webinar featuring Stephan Spencer and Chris Smith. (The Quicktime file is 112 MB)

The second video is the Q&A section of the webinar, which was so long we did it as a separate recording, lasting 105 minutes. (The Quicktime file is 205 MB)

 

 SEO for Really Big Websites [90:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 SEO for Really Big Websites Q & A [106:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Do you know how to include keywords in headlines and articles to ensure your Web page receives high rankings in search engines? Do you understand how accurately tagging content translates into greater Web exposure and more readers?

Concepts shared in this one-hour training format will benefit executives from small to large-sized newspapers seeking to learn more about search engine optimization.

Learn guided instructions on how to incorporate the concepts of SEO to make the most of your Web site.

Speakers:
Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts
Steven Evatt, The Houston Chronicle’s Chron.com

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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…

• Search engine market share
• Eye tracking studies and searcher behavior
• Trends
• Imminent innovations
• Keyword research tools
• and much more

Speaker:
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts

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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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Links are the currency of search engines. Without good inbound links to your web site, your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts will be in vain. Link building is arguably the most difficult, most misunderstood, and most poorly executed aspect to SEO. Join SEO and link-building expert Stephan Spencer as he guides us through the quagmire showing us the way to great search engine rankings.

You will learn:

• Google’s PageRank scores: red herring or useful metric?
• What makes a link valuable or not
• Creative strategies for building link-worthy content
• What works when approaching webmasters with link requests
• Pitfalls to avoid if buying or bartering links

Speakers:
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts

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Link building is fast becoming one of the best ways to promote your site, find out how to master the basics & get you linking strategy up & running, great overview here.

Speaker:
Jacqui Jones, Natural Search Marketing Consultant, Netconcepts

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