Web Development Website Audits

SEO Report Card: ShopWildPlanet.com

October 1st, 2006

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Practical Ecommerce

The firm that built the site for Wild Planet believes they have done a pretty good job of optimizing ShopWildPlanet.com. Let’s see if their confidence is well founded…

Continue reading »

Spread the word: delicious this:SEO Report Card: ShopWildPlanet.com digg this:SEO Report Card: ShopWildPlanet.com spurl this:SEO Report Card: ShopWildPlanet.com furl this:SEO Report Card: ShopWildPlanet.com reddit this:SEO Report Card: ShopWildPlanet.com Add to Y!:SEO Report Card: ShopWildPlanet.com

realestate.co.nz

September 25th, 2006

Realestate.co.nz screenshotrealestate.co.nz is operated by the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ). The site is a comprehensive meta-directory of listed properties in New Zealand and is currently the second most popular real estate site in New Zealand.

The site boasts a number of Web 2.0 features including RSS, Google Maps, microformats and AJAX. Every page, every search and every field has a corresponding RSS feed as well as email alert to which visitors can subscribe. This new site is of course search engine friendly, allowing spiders to traverse the site fully through text links. Dates and times of open homes can be saved directly to the calendar software such as Outlook, thanks to the use of microformats.

[ database | client admin cms | SEO ]

Visit the site: RealEstate.co.nz

SEO Report Card: Yarnware.com

September 1st, 2006

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Practical Ecommerce

Meredith Bright of Yarnware writes: “I used to have much better organic search rankings, but they have been dropping recently. I can’t figure out what is wrong.” It wasn’t hard to see why. The site is running Lotus Notes Domino –– not a platform that is very friendly to search engines because of its long, complex-looking URLs. However, the issues with the site were much more fundamental. The www.yarnware.com site has broken some cardinal rules of SEO.

Continue reading »

Spread the word: delicious this:SEO Report Card: Yarnware.com digg this:SEO Report Card: Yarnware.com spurl this:SEO Report Card: Yarnware.com furl this:SEO Report Card: Yarnware.com reddit this:SEO Report Card: Yarnware.com Add to Y!:SEO Report Card: Yarnware.com

Derceto

August 23rd, 2006

Derceto screenshotDerceto is a software company which has been funded by a leading New Zealand venture capital firm. It makes modelling software for water distribution. Their software helps reduce power consumption by helping the water companies save significant amounts of money off of their power bills.

Derceto.com is an information-rich corporate website with FAQs, online forums, white papers, presentations, and fact sheets.

[ database | client admin cms | SEO ]

Visit The Site: Derceto

Polycase

August 1st, 2006

Polycase screenshotPolycase is a manufacturer of plastic electronic enclosures for OEMs, including handhelds, desktops, and other electronics.

This ecommerce site, powered by our GravityMarket solution, makes it easy for Polycase’s customers to do business with them. In addition to searching by keyword, customers can search by size — length and width — and by series. They can also browse by product type, size range and application. In addition to ample product information and specifications, including engineering drawings, the site also offers a helpful PDF library.

[ database | client admin cms | SEO ]

Visit The Site: Polycase

SEO Report Card: KayakFishingStuff.com

August 1st, 2006

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Practical Ecommerce

In many ways this site was a breath of fresh air. From an SEO standpoint, Kayak Fishing Stuff is doing a number of things right, and it shows in their No. 1 rankings in Google for “kayak fishing,” “fishing kayak” and “fishing kayaks.” Of course, there is still room for improvement, but it is more a case of finessing and fine-tuning than throwing away the whole site and starting again.

Continue reading »

Spread the word: delicious this:SEO Report Card: KayakFishingStuff.com digg this:SEO Report Card: KayakFishingStuff.com spurl this:SEO Report Card: KayakFishingStuff.com furl this:SEO Report Card: KayakFishingStuff.com reddit this:SEO Report Card: KayakFishingStuff.com Add to Y!:SEO Report Card: KayakFishingStuff.com

Full Compass

July 27th, 2006

Full Compass screenshotFull Compass is a supplier of audio, video and lighting equipment, and targets musicians, theatrical and staging crews.

This site boasts extensive functionality on the back-end, including some quite sophisticated integration with their own back-end systems. The site has tens of thousands of pages in Google. The revamp that we completed included a total site redesign, new user interface and a completely new website back-end and database.

[ database | client admin cms | SEO ]

Visit The Site: Full Compass

Case Study: Homestead.com

July 18th, 2006

Homestead.com logo

  • On page 1 for “website hosting” in Google within first 8 weeks
  • Hosts over 12 million members
  • Sustained high search engine rankings since early 2004
Continue reading »

Spread the word: delicious this:Case Study: Homestead.com digg this:Case Study: Homestead.com spurl this:Case Study: Homestead.com furl this:Case Study: Homestead.com reddit this:Case Study: Homestead.com Add to Y!:Case Study: Homestead.com

SEO Report Card: Zearth.Blogspot.com

July 1st, 2006

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Practical Ecommerce

Zearth.com’s staff operates a blog at zearth.blogspot.com, although they are relatively new to the concept. They signed up for a free Blogger.com blog, which wasn’t ideal as you’ll soon discover. The traffic into the blog is only a trickle, but they have received a couple thousand dollars in sales because of it, so it’s a start.

Continue reading »

Spread the word: delicious this:SEO Report Card: Zearth.Blogspot.com digg this:SEO Report Card: Zearth.Blogspot.com spurl this:SEO Report Card: Zearth.Blogspot.com furl this:SEO Report Card: Zearth.Blogspot.com reddit this:SEO Report Card: Zearth.Blogspot.com Add to Y!:SEO Report Card: Zearth.Blogspot.com

DMNews Goes Web 2.0 - feeds, trackbacks, comments & more

June 2nd, 2006

by Stephan Spencer

DMNews.com has relaunched with a new design and a new back-end, both done by us at Netconcepts. On their blog, DM News’ founder and publisher Adrian Courtenay talks about the relaunch and gives us such glowing praise that I feel myself blushing!

A few new features worth noting:

  • The entire archives have been opened up. No more passwords required!
  • Articles support both comments and trackbacks.
  • Deep links to old articles have been maintained through 301 redirects.
  • The site now offers RSS feeds. Not just one main RSS feed, but every category has an RSS feed.

Spread the word: delicious this:DMNews Goes Web 2.0 - feeds, trackbacks, comments & more digg this:DMNews Goes Web 2.0 - feeds, trackbacks, comments & more spurl this:DMNews Goes Web 2.0 - feeds, trackbacks, comments & more furl this:DMNews Goes Web 2.0 - feeds, trackbacks, comments & more reddit this:DMNews Goes Web 2.0 - feeds, trackbacks, comments & more Add to Y!:DMNews Goes Web 2.0 - feeds, trackbacks, comments & more

Pages (14): « First ... « 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 » ... Last »


Related tags

and/or
and/or
and/or
and/or
and/or

Newsletter

Web marketing virtuoso Stephan Spencer, shares a wealth of emarketing experience and hard-hitting, practical advice in our monthly newsletter. It's full of valuable insights...You should subscribe.








Latest posts
Latest comments


Contact Us

HEADQUARTERS
2820 Walton Commons West, Suite 123
Madison, WI 53718 USA
Phone: (608) 285-6600
Toll-free: 888 207-1109

REGIONAL OFFICE
36 Anzac Rd., Browns Bay
Auckland, New Zealand
Phone: (+64) 9 476-4601
infodesk@netconcepts.com