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Stephan Spencer

SEO Consultant

Stephan Spencer

Stephan M. Spencer, M.Sc., is the founder and president of Netconcepts, a web agency that specializes in search engine optimized e-commerce, and email marketing through its GravityMail division. Clients include Home Shopping Network, AOL, Verizon SuperPages.com, Discovery Channel, and REI, to name a few.

Stephan is a frequent speaker at Internet conferences around the globe (including Berlin, London, Toronto, Santiago, Auckland, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles) for organizations such as the DMA, the AMA, JupiterMedia, Internet World, IQPC and IIR.

In addition to being a senior contributor to Practical eCommerce, Stephan is also a senior contributor to MarketingProfs.com, and he's been a contributor to DM News, Multichannel Merchant, Catalog Age, Catalog Success, Unlimited, NZ Marketing, Building Online Business, and others. He is co-author of the analyst report "The State of Search Engine Marketing 1.0 – New Strategies for Successful Cataloging" published by Catalog Age.

In adddition to writing here, Stephan also blogs at Stephan Spencer's Scatterings, Natural Search Blog, MarketingProfs Daily Fix, Changes for Good, Google I Suggest..., and Business Blog Consulting. Stephan can be contacted at (608) 285-6600 or via email at stephan@netconcepts.com.

 

 

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47 Articles by Stephan Spencer:

Video: SEO Update November 08, 2007
Video: SEO Website Update October 29, 2007
SEO Report Card: Beachaudio.com September 12, 2007
Search Engine Optimization And Web 2.0 September 06, 2007
SEO: Heads or (Long) Tails? August 29, 2007
SEO Report Card: VeganStore.com August 15, 2007
SEO Report Card: RepublicaTrading.com August 06, 2007
SEO: Is Your Site Holiday-ready? August 01, 2007
SEO: Metrics That Matter June 17, 2007
SEO Report Card: Change Home Page Links June 12, 2007
Critique Part Three: Search Engine Optimization June 04, 2007
SEO Report Card: Error Pages Create Big Issues May 14, 2007
SEO: Link Baiting Tips To 'Juice' Your Site May 07, 2007
SEO Report Card: Need Pages At Product Level May 02, 2007
SEO: Google Cracks Open Its Black Box April 16, 2007
SEO Report Card: The Google Death Sentence April 04, 2007
SEO: The Duplicate Content Penalty March 20, 2007
SEO Report Card: Escaping the Google Sandbox February 19, 2007
SEO: Can Wikipedia Help Your Business? February 12, 2007
SEO: To Buy Links, or Not to Buy Links? January 10, 2007
SEO Report Card: Freshpair.com January 02, 2007
SEO Report Card: Scrappopotamus.com November 30, 2006
SEO Toolkit November 30, 2006
SEO Report Card: Coolbugstuff.com November 01, 2006
SEO: Choosing a Vendor November 01, 2006
SEO Report Card: Shopwildplanet.com September 30, 2006
SEO: RSS Feeds Increase Visibility September 30, 2006
SEO: Breadcrumb Trail Boosts Rankings August 31, 2006
SEO Report Card: Yarnware.com August 31, 2006
SEO: Harness the Power of CSS July 31, 2006
SEO Report Card: KayakFishingStuff.com July 31, 2006
SEO Report Card: Zearth.Blogspot.com July 01, 2006
SEO: Blogging Your Way To The Top July 01, 2006
Black Hat SEO June 01, 2006
SEO Report Card: As-Seen-on-TV-Store-1.com May 30, 2006
SEO Report Card: Airtroductions.com May 01, 2006
SEO: Optimizing Your Content May 01, 2006
SEO Report Card: Golfgods.com April 01, 2006
SEO: Tools for Link Building April 01, 2006
SEO Report Card: Stayleaner.com March 01, 2006
SEO: Weaving a Web of Links March 01, 2006
SEO Report Card: Discountflies.com February 01, 2006
Optimize Your HTML For Search Engines February 01, 2006
Search Engine Optimization: Avoid Complex URLs January 01, 2006
SEO Report Card: BalancedLifeProducts.com January 01, 2006
Search Engine Optimization: Writing Effectively December 01, 2005
Keyword Sleuthing: Locate the Right Word November 01, 2005

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