Netconcepts, the premier natural search firm enabling a leading tier of the top 200 Internet Retailers to "get found" online, is proud to new welcome new team member, Lead Search Strategist Chris "Silver" Smith to its Madison, WI, office. As part of his role, Smith will be shaping the future development of Netconcepts GravityStream™ product. GravityStream, a performance based SEO management platform, is currently helping companies like Cabela's to increase online revenue as a direct result of attaining page 1 Google rankings for unique, yet highly competitive search terms.

Smith has five patents pending five patents pending in local search technology, user-interface display applications, and local information ratings systems. His work has been published on numerous web sites, including SearchEngineLand.com where he writes on Local Search topics.

An organic search engine optimization pioneer, Smith previously served as Manager of Administration of Texas A&M University's Cartographic Service Unit, where he assisted with portions of the university's earliest website presence. More recently, as Head of Technology & Development for Verizon Superpages.com, he was awarded a number of individual and team awards by the corporation, including the prestigious Verizon Individual Excellence Award, and was cited for increasing the company's overall revenue by millions of dollars per year.