Netconcepts, a Wisconsin-based SEO company, has been acquired by San Diego’s Covario, Inc. Many of you know the name Stephan Spencer, he is the Founder and President of Netconcepts. Wanted to wish Stephan and the whole Netconcepts team a huge congrats from us.

Here are some quotes from the press release:

“With the acquisition of Netconcepts and the GravityStream technology, Covario is bringing a unique solution to advertisers to help them accelerate their ability to present their brands on all the major search engines globally,” said Russ Mann, Chief Executive Officer of Covario. “By coupling the predictive analytics in Covario’s Organic Search Insight with easy execution capabilities of Netconcepts’ GravityStream technology, advertisers will be able to identify the SEO actions that drive better rankings, and then deploy those strategies quickly, and in a highly scalable way to achieve their ROI goals.”

“Advertisers who have constraints on their web development teams, usually due to the underfunding of IT departments, need to build websites that are well optimized for the global search engines,” said Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts. “The combined software platforms provide advertisers a fully automated SEO solution that spans keyword research, link building and web content management, strategy deployment, and ongoing reporting. There is no other solution like this on the market.”

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