“Local marketing industry savants have long been predicting the demise of print Yellow Pages books, going the way of the buggy whip due to overwhelming competition from Internet alternatives,” writes Chris Silver Smith, Lead Strategist for GravityStream at Netconcepts. In this article, Chris writes about what kind of an impact of local “internet” space has on both printed and online Yellow Pages directories.
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Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal wrote a post highlighting Commerce360’s stated intention to build automatic optimization software, using a lot of venture capital they raised for this purpose. Loren asks, “Can SEO Be Automated?”
In this article, Chris Smith formulates his own response to this controversial question.
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Google recently opted-in many of their clients’ PPC ads to appear in Google Mobile search results. Yahoo has been offering a small suite of mobile ads for a while now, too, so I thought it’d be interesting to compare their current mobile ad offerings.
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While “one page salesletters” can be what Stephan Spencer, President and Founder of Netconcepts calls, “an SEO nightmare,” proper optimization of microsites can be beneficial to SEO. In this article, Stephan writes about the right (and wrong) way to treat microsites as an SEO option.
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Google Blogoscoped reports that Yahoo’s Image Search now particularly likes Flickr content, so this may be incentive for webmasters to use Flickr “as a kind of Yahoo search engine optimization”. My frequent readers know that I’ve been advocating using Flickr for image search optimization for some time now, and I’ve been speaking on this subject at Search Engine Strategies conferences as well.
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In this website audit published on Practical eCommerce, Netconcepts’ founder and President Stephan Spencer reviews one of the Internet Retailer 500 companies, Beachaudio.com. Stephan’s review came at a key moment for their business; they had performed an SEO overhaul of their site back in April.
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With Google’s Universal Search including everything from blog searches to images and maps, many companies are forced to take a hard look at branding in a different light. PJ Fusco, Lead Strategist for Netconcepts, writes:
To control your brand messaging and online reputation in Google and other search engines that now provide blended results, you must leverage vertical venues and prioritize optimization of those elements most applicable to your online business.
In this two-part article, Fusco starts with the basics of image optimization. To read this compelling article about images and your company’s brand, visit ClickZ here for Picture This, Part 1.
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Stephan Spencer writes, “The more effectively you delegate, the faster you will excel in your career. Even if you don’t have any direct reports in your job function—perhaps you are in an entry-level marketing assistant position—you can still delegate by having one or more virtual assistants, or “VAs.” In this article, Stephan talks about how savvy resource management can affect your bottom line.
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“Search engine optimizing for the “Long Tail” is fundamentally different from optimizing for the head. Therefore, it’s important to initially point out that the strategies and tactics for “Long Tail” SEO are more automated and extensible than for traditional SEO,” writes Stephan Spencer, President and Founder of Netconcepts. In this article about the “head” vs the “long tail,” Stephan writes about how you can capture the “long tail” to help your site.
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PJ Fusco, Lead Strategist for GravityStream, blends her traveling experiences with SEO “best practices.”
“I’ve been on the road the past couple weeks, looking for my luggage in North Carolina, doing carry-on only for two days in Texas, and estimating the odds of getting the same crabby cab driver for two consecutive days in San Francisco.
These are my three reasons why you shouldn’t bother to read this column. Unless, of course, you’re curious about how I’m going to bind each of these ridiculous-to-sublime events into a little SEO (define) insight and advice.”
For more about SEO good habits that can be gleaned from real life relationships, cab drivers, and luggage checks, read PJ Fusco’s ClickZ article available here.
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