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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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One of the hot topics in SEO is the debate over duplicate content. Many retail websites might carry the same products across multiple domains; news-related websites and articles might be found in multiple places all across the web. Lead strategist for Netconcepts, Patricia Fusco responds to the issue of duplicate content by saying, “This challenges search engine algorithms to be smarter and faster when presenting users with definitive, relevant search results — usually the original content source.”
Whether you are already aware that you have duplicate content across several domains or not, duplicate content could be a cause for concern from an organic search and a search engine spider perspective.
Read “The Duplicate Content Debate” here and find out whether or not you should address this issue for your own sites.
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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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With the competition so rampant among the search engines and online directories, sometimes the opportunity to work with one another–in order to make things better for users–gets lost in the shuffle. Enter Chris Smith, lead GravityStream strategist for Netconcepts, who writes this article in order to shed light on a larger issue that is undoubtedly causing problems for small businesses in local listings.
Chris writes that, “It’s really time for the local search and info directory industry to do something simple that would reduce time and expenses for local businesses while improving information reliability and availability for consumers.”
Read more about this issue here, and learn how a few, simple standardized formats would benefit both local search listings and small businesses.
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Patricia Fusco, lead strategist for Netconcepts, writes, “To succeed on the Web today, you must engage your visitors so they return repeatedly. Toward this end, some Web 2.0 platforms could be your site’s savior; others could be its online demise.”
In this cutting-edge article, Patricia discusses the ins and outs of Web 2.0 by challenging us to think about the effects of AJAX, widgets, podcasts, and video, along with programming elements like JavaScript and Flash, on the search engines. Her message is a strong one, and allows us to think about balancing Web 2.0 and what’s good for search.
Read the article here, to help you determine how to blend what’s best for your site with what’s best for search.
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In the intensive session I led during the ACCM in Boston on May 21, the overriding theme was that search engines judge a site’s worth on its inbound links. Translation: No links = no rankings.
Blogs, meanwhile, are great at attracting links from the blogosphere, because bloggers are rather cliquish and mostly tend to link to each other. So you’ll earn links as a blog that you wouldn’t normally earn otherwise.
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Having a supposedly “search engine friendly” website isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, it can be quite a disappointment. That’s because it’s not the same thing as being “search engine optimized.” I’ve seen the words “search engine friendly” bandied about quite a lot, particularly to market and sell blog platforms, shopping carts, and content management systems. But buyer beware: That won’t necessarily correlate to high search engine rankings out of the box.
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Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts founder and president, writes a site review for Modernmini–a modern-style baby store–in this article. His in-depth review covers ten specific examples, including how error pages can negatively effect a website, as well as other search engine optimization talking points. Find out how basic SEO techniques like keyword prominence and simple HTML tags can help this modern mom’s baby furniture store website.
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