NVI blog: SEO, web design and social media

We were at SES Toronto 2010 last week, and Bryan Eisenberg was one the people we got a chance to sit down and chat with. In this first half of our chat with him, Bryan discusses how SEO tactics can not only help with rankings, but improve conversions once users are on the site.
The three [...]

Tomorrow marks the beginning of SES Toronto 2010. Well, to get this conference started, NVI has teamed up with Acquisio to bring you the SES Toronto 2010 Kick-off Party on June 9th at 7pm.
The party will be held at the Charlotte Room which is only 3 block from the conference hotel (map with directions). There’ll [...]

While we were at Make Web Not War last week, we got a chance to sit down and chat with Garrett Serack. He’s a software developer who works in the open-source technology center at Microsoft, and his job is to help open-source technologies run better on Windows.
During our chat, Garrett offered some advice for [...]

During Make Web Not War, we caught up with Mark O’Sullivan and Brendan Sera-Shriar of Vanilla Forums. Vanilla is free, open-source forum software and, like Wordpress, offers a hosted version, as well.
Mark and Brendan discussed how Vanilla strives to do away with a lot of the clutter in other forum platforms. They also touched on [...]

This is the second half of our interview with Ilya Grigorik, the CTO of PostRank. PostRank is a company that provides social media monitoring and analytics, by measuring the impact of tweets, blogs, social bookmarks, etc.
In this installment, Ilya discusses the how the PostRank algorithm works. He explained how the PostRank Algorithm assigns different value [...]

Today we were at Make Web Not War, a conference that was all about “interoperability” — i.e. blending open-source and Microsoft technologies. While there, our CEO, Guillaume Bouchard, delivered a presentation to developers about SEO for dynamic websites.
Guillaume started by reminding the crowd that organic traffic comprises, on average, half of all web traffic. It [...]

Another person we got to interview at SMX Toronto 2010 was Ilya Grigorik, the CTO of PostRank. Ilya sat on the panel of a session called Social Media: Insight and Inspiration where panelists discussed how search and social media are evolving and influencing each other.
After the session, Ilya gave us a few minutes to discuss [...]

At SMX Toronto 2010, we sat in on one session called Link Building Strategies and Ranking Tactics, where the panelists discussed ways to build links back to your site without paying for them. One of those panelists was Dawn Wentzell from Outspoken Media.
After the session, we got to sit down with Dawn and walk about [...]

Another panelist we had a chance to speak with at SMX Toronto 2010, was Tamera Kremer. She was one of the panelist on a session called Search and Social Media: Insight & Inspiration.
We sat down with Tamera to discuss where she sees search and social media intersecting. According to her, the two will come together [...]

This is another SMX Toronto interview. In this clip, we talk to Larry Bailin, the author of the best-selling book “Mommy, Where Do Customers Come From“.
Larry was the main panelist on a session called Universal & Blended Search Opportunities, and he had some really great advice for brands and marketers. But afterward, we caught [...]