NVI blog: SEO, web design and social media

I’m dropping in on the universal and blended search panel today – Google calls it universal, Yahoo calls it blended, apparently nobody likes informative generic labels like multi-media with pictures and video and stuff SERPS. Screw-em, this is the multi-media with pictures and video and stuff SERPS panel.

Mitch Joel (just thought you needed that wiki entry Mitch) from TwistImage is up first.

Mitch hails from Montreal and is a bit of a mythic figure in the marketing world, in no small part because of his story – he comes from music, he interviewed all your favorite punk rockers, and crafted a bit of a punk journalist image for himself. Now he runs a company called TwistImage – a full service-ish kind of thing on St-Laurent, a couple of blocks from the residence of yours truly. He was employee number 4 at momma.com – remember those girls? (more…)

As the rough cut scraggly bearded man to my left installs a packet sniffer to get to know his neighbors just a little better (hint people, sftp, don’t forget the s), and the corporately dressed petite female in high heels to my right scribbles furiously to try and encapsulate just what, exactly, this SEO thing is (‘seo is good’ apparently, which is my three word summary of the keynote), I realize I’m back in a familiar place: Search Engine Strategies, The Conference.

A mix of beige and maroon attack the visual cortex while pert plus and cheap perfume mingle into my nose to form olfactory memories I just might soon forget. If nothing more it’s a feast for the senses… kind of a 24 hour Chinese buffet feast, but feast none the less. (more…)