NVI blog: SEO, web design and social media

Last fall, I attended the Oxford Social Media Convention 2009, where Technorati founder Dave Sifry proudly announced that SEO is snake oil, and that if anyone in the audience was approached by someone offering SEO, they should run. The audience chuckled and moved on. I think I must have been the only optimizer listening, because [...]

In this second and final installment of our interview with Jiyan Wei from PRWeb.com,Jiyan discusses how brands and companies can optimize their press releases for both SEO and usability. Jiyan shares with us how PRWeb has seen both video and images affect visibility on blended and news rankings, as well as click through rates (CTR) [...]

With the end of one year and the beginning of a new one, there are always so many top 5 and top 10 lists, as well as predictions for the year to come. Well, Deloitte Canada is holding a contest where participants make a technology, media, or telecommunication prediction for 2010 by submitting a 90 [...]

With 2010 now here, we can expect to see Google release Caffeine. And as Jim Boykin pointed out, more diverse content such as a press releases seems to factor in more importantly with the new search algorithm.
Well, in this clip, we speak with Jiyan Wei from PRWeb.com. Jiyan explores how to get content to rank [...]

Once you’ve decided that you’re ready for an affiliate program, you’ll have to choose whether to run your program in-house or through a third party affiliate network. Each has it’s pros and cons, and the choice that’s right for you will depend on your pre-existing business model: (1) how much affiliate marketing factors into your [...]

Guillaume Bouchard of NVI joins a cast of hilariously drunken SEO characters in some Q&A with Greg Jarboe. Greg plays the role of Santa and asks all the little SEOs whether they’ve been naughty or nice and whether they’re looking forward to or dreading the upcoming Google changes!

At Pubcon 2009, our very own CEO, Guillaume Bouchard, was part of a panel called Social Media & Press Relations. As the panel’s descriptions stated:
The relationship between social media and press relations is red hot. Companies and PR agencies all over the country are have problems setting policy on how to tweet, when they tweet, [...]

This is a video interview with Ken Jurina, the President and CEO of Epiar, and SEM firm. We met up with Ken at Pubcon 2009, and decided to ask him about what’s going on in the world of PPC these days.
Ken discussed the importance of negative keywords, and how they’re integral to a well-managed PPC [...]

Meet Rae Hoffman (aka Sugar Rae), CEO of Outspoken Media. We met up with Rae and Pubcon 2009, and sat down with her for a moment to chat about onsite SEO tactics.
Rae discussed how companies should split up their resources between onsite and offsite SEO. She also delved into the importance of interlinking, and what [...]

Vanessa Fox is probably most well known for launching Google Webmaster Central, but she has since moved on to found Nine By Blue, a company that examines online customer engagement and acquisition. Well, we caught up with Vanessa at Pubcon 2009, and sat down with her to discuss recent Google Caffeine and other recent developments [...]