Search Engine Strategies — San Jose, CA
Discover how search engines rely on link analysis as an important component for rank web pages. Learn also how to increase traffic to your site by building quality links in an appropriate manner.
Moderator:
Mike Grehan, Global KDM Officer, Acronym Media
Speakers:
Michael Gray, President, Atlas Web Service
Jeff Quipp, President & CEO, Search Engine People
PJ Fusco, Natural Search Director, Netconcepts
Jody Farmer, VP, Strategic Marketing, CreditCards.com
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SEOmoz Expert Training — Seattle, WA
When and how to effectively use the tools from Google Webmaster Central, Live Search Webmaster Center, and Yahoo Site Explorer.
Why Sitemaps shouldn’t be necessary (and why to sometimes use them anyway)
Speakers:
Rand Fishkin, CEO, SEOmoz
Stephan Spencer, Founder & President, Netconcepts
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SEOmoz Expert Training — Seattle, WA
The link and content structure of a website is critical to achieving full indexation and maximizing potential rankings. This session will cover specific strategies for link distribution, content organization, and controlling & flowing PageRank/link juice.
Speakers:
Rand Fishkin, CEO, SEOmoz
Stephan Spencer, Founder & President, Netconcepts
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Search Engine Strategies — San Jose, CA
This session will address how marketers utilize the long tail of the Internet and search engine marketing to identify and reach consumers who are interested in what a company has to offer, but don’t fit the traditional definition of the demographic audience. The end result is a more strategic, cost-effective search marketing campaign. We’ll discuss the “long tail approach” from a tactical standpoint, including strategies that fit the users of this emerging market, as well as examples of why this works in terms of increasing sales.
Highlights of the presentation include:
Moderator:
David Szetela, CEO, Clix Marketing
Speakers:
Mary Bowling, Senior SEO, Blizzard Internet Marketing, Inc.
Brock Purpura, CEO, Etology
Aaron Shear, Partner, Boost Search Marketing
Stephan Spencer, Founder & President, Netconcepts, LLC
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WordCamp — San Francisco, CA
From title tags to internal linking, from optional excerpts to rel=nofollow, this session covers the biggest search engine optimization mistakes WordPress bloggers make, and how to fix them.
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Stanford University Tech Briefings — Stanford, CA
During this rich presentation, spanning SEO (Search Engine Optimization) fundamentals as well as advanced tricks and tactics that only the elite SEO experts know, you’ll learn how to:
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A SEO review of this site and the Best Practices in use, as well as opportunities for new optimization. Analyst Jeff Muendel of Netconcepts goes through the site with a fine tooth comb. Learn from his findings on how to analyze your ecommerce website and tweak it in time for holiday traffic.
If Little Pixie Gifts has an SEO weak point, it is in the URLs. As search engines spider the URL addresses along with title tags and page content, each URL should reflect the keyword theme of the page. Instead, Little Pixie Gifts has URLs like http://www.littlepixiegifts.com.au/cart.php?target=category&category_id=62. While such a URL doesn’t necessarily hurt things from a search engine perspective, it certainly doesn’t help.
To read the full article, visit Practical Ecommerce.
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Do you know your website’s conversion rate? Do you know if it is above or below average for a typical merchant? The average conversion rate is only about 2.4%. How can you increase your site’s conversion rate? Learn from Netconcepts Founder & President, Stephan Spencer about how to improve your organization’s website to become a better converter. In this article for MultiChannel Merchant, Stephan discusses the use of Persuasion Architecture, how to design for different personality types, analyze your audience’s needs and to adjust your tone.
Technology is not a means to higher conversion rates; it is just a tool that must be properly managed, configured, and implemented in order to reach your goals. Just having a great CMS with an advanced shopping cart system is not enough — there are no “set it and forget it” solutions for improving your conversion rate.
For more on this topic, read the full article here.
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SES Toronto — Toronto, Canada
An overused and amorphous term, “Web 2.0″ nonetheless encompasses an evolutionary shift from the typical web user experience of a decade ago. Some aspects of the “new” web environment are great for improving your search traffic. Other developments may lead you to make serious SEO errors. Among other things, Web 2.0 is about new user interface designs that speed up user actions with techniques such as AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML), which allow users to perform operations nimbly without loading a new HTML page. This session will cover AJAX, CSS, user-generated content, and other new trends in web design and user experiences that may require a re-think of your SEO strategy.
Speaker:
Chris “Silver” Smith, Lead Strategist, Netconcepts
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SES Toronto — Toronto, Canada
One of this year’s panelists promises that search marketers have the potential to “own” the social media marketing space because of search’s inherent bias towards ROI measurement. Panelists will focus on defining different measures of success, and exploring case studies of social media campaigns that worked to help clients get rich, famous, and better-looking.
Speakers:
Cam Balzer, Director of Search Strategy, Performics Inc.
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts, LLC
Marshall Clark, Director of Search, Organic
Liana Evans, Director of Internet Marketing, KeyRelevance
Marty Weintraub, President, aimClear
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Madison, WI 53718 USA
Phone: (608) 285-6600
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