For Immediate Release

Search Engine Marketing Firm Netconcepts Welcomes New E-Business Account Director

New hire will drive online sales success of Netconcepts’ clients as part of team supporting customizable ecommerce solution, GravityMarket

Madison, WI, May 9, 2007 – www.netconcepts.com – Netconcepts, the premier natural search firm enabling a leading tier of the top 200 Internet Retailers to “get found” online, is proud to welcome new team member, E-Business Account Director Fran Nahabedian to its Madison, WI office.

Nahabedian’s role with Netconcepts will be focused on driving the success of their E-Business client base. In so doing, she will be shaping the future development of Netconcepts’ customizable ecommerce solution, GravityMarket™.

GravityMarket, a powerful online retail management platform, is designed to provide retail owners a competitive edge as they grow their online business. Its features, such as a streamlined checkout process, has already helped firms such as billiards retailer PoolDawg increase their online sales exponentially.

A powerful solution like GravityMarket requires a powerful team to support its maturation. Nahabedian is perfectly suited to join such a team, as she brings a wealth of ecommerce experience to this vital new role.

Prior to joining Netconcepts, Fran owned a consulting firm focused on growing client revenues through strategic marketing. She has worked for several Fortune 500 companies such as American Airlines, Sabre, Travelocity, and Budget Rent a Car, all in the areas of strategic marketing and planning.

“It’s an honor to be working for Netconcepts, a firm as dedicated to best-practice ecommerce success as I am,” states Nahabedian. “Combining GravityMarket’s robust ecommerce features with our strategic online marketing services will enable our clients to achieve greater online success”.

“We at Netconcepts are proud to welcome Fran to the GravityMarket team,” states Jody Hartwig, Netconcepts’ VP of Client Services. ” Fran brings with her a great deal of experience in the field of ecommerce and we are confident that her added vision will be driving our client’s success for years to come.”

About Netconcepts, LLC

Netconcepts® is committed to arming top Internet retailers with online strategies and technology platforms designed to increase online sales. With proprietary technology and services including GravityStream™ and GravityMarket™, online retailers will “get found” in the search engines. Online retailers succeeding with the aid of Netconcepts, include Discovery Communications, Northern Tool, Home Shopping Network, Kohl’s Department Stores, REI, Van Dyke Supply, and Cabela’s among other brands. Netconcepts is based in Madison Wisconsin with a production facility in Auckland, New Zealand.

Read more in-depth about how good blog content can boost organic search in this article from Inc.com here.

“A year ago, PoolDawg traded in its modified version of an “off-the-shelf” e-commerce platform for a completely new platform from Netconcepts. The Netconcepts GravityMarket 2.0 e-commerce platform offers a flexible design that, for example, supports the placement of content that has proven to help shoppers complete purchases, Feiman says.”

Read the article here. For more information about PoolDawg.com’s success, read the PoolDawg.com Case Study.

For Immediate Release

Fortune 500 Company Adopts WordPress To Answer Credit Questions

Countrywide’s CreditDemystified.com Isn’t a Blog, or Is It?

MADISON, WI (Janaury 17, 2007) Web development companies are increasingly recognizing the potential of WordPress as a content management system (CMS). CreditDemystified.com, an educational site developed for Countrywide Home Loans, illustrates how a corporate microsite can successfully be adapted to the blog platform.

The microsite, developed by Netconcepts, is designed to help visitors become credit savvy by providing simple answers to credit questions. Although the microsite’s platform is WordPress, CreditDemystified.com is far from a traditional blog.

Countrywide Home Loans chose to work with Netconcepts because of the company’s experience developing search engine optimal sites (SEO).

“The SEO benefits of WordPress are obvious,” said Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts’ Founder and President. “‘Powered by WordPress’ is a phrase seen on millions of blogs. But one wouldn’t normally associate that phrase with any other type of website other than a blog. I predict that’s about to change as search marketers begin to appreciate the SEO benefits of running WordPress on microsites.”

Netconcepts’ own corporate site switched from a home-grown CMS to WordPress in August 2006 and showed a significant increase in traffic in the following months. Based on this experience, Netconcepts designed CreditDemystified.com to take full advantage of WordPress’ SEO power.

“We’ve equipped the site with all the SEO goodies like a tag cloud, tag pages, RSS, my SEO Title Tag plugin, and Technorati tags. One breakthrough was adapting the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin to handle static pages, and not just posts,” Spencer continued.

The directive for Netconcepts’ website and SEO design team was simple, create a search engine optimized site using WordPress that doesn’t look like a blog.

CreditDemystified.com, designed to make credit information accessible and easily understood by visitors at a glance, has a wealth of credit related content covering credit repair to debt management. For many consumers, the topic of credit can be dull or intimidating, so the site includes fun and quick review elements such as the Credit Intelligence Quiz (CQ Quiz). The quiz provides a score, and includes useful information for participants to improve their credit knowledge.

Ecommerce is a large part of the company’s business says Van Dyke’s Director of Operations Susan Kalb. Their selection of Netconcepts, whose development staff were based in New Zealand, was because the agency was able to meet their site and ecommerce needs better than any local supplier.

President of Netconcepts, Stephan Spencer says that of the last 38 site developments for their clients, 34 were for US-based companies. He also expected Netconcepts to double its revenue in the next 12-18 months.