NVI blog: SEO, web design and social media

We all know online communities have become a guiding and influential force in individual decision making, networking and basic day-to-day contact. As these communities grow larger everyday, with younger and older generations jumping on the Internet every second, web-based marketing companies must learn to understand why reaching out to a [...]

Q&A sites have exploded in popularity over the last few months and it seems everywhere you turn, people are tweeting their answers to questions posted on Quora, Ardvark, FormSpring and many others. What was the leading factor in making Q&A sites so popular despite the failure of Yahoo! Answers and niche forums with respect to [...]

The nature of the Facebook Ads system is such that numerous factors will inevitably lead to click-through rate decline. Unlike Google’s Quality Score, where CTR is a defined metric relating directly to impressions, Facebook does not give an indication of CTR’s effect on impressions - but we’ve seen its effects. It’s unclear whether or not [...]

Imagine two libraries competing to house the world’s knowledge. People from across the land contribute their own volumes towards the growth of these institutions, and while there is a rivalry, in truth, everybody wins.
Then one of the libraries acquires the other, and strangely decides to burn their original building to the ground, without moving [...]

I recently moved out of the big city of Montreal to a quaint suburb about a half-hour away from the hustle and bustle of the city. I now spend my morning commuting to work which basically involves a slow crawl scored by the chirpy sounds of talk radio. Lately I’ve been following the 2011 election [...]

Google recently launched their +1 button, rightly considered by most to be a close mirror of Facebook’s ‘Like’ Button. This gives the atypical impression of Google following in another company’s footsteps, but we can see a social interaction with web pages as being an inevitable step forward, and as such, following suit with something ‘like’ish [...]

I was having a conversation yesterday with a colleague about a blog article idea, and he pointed out that I was talking in a lot of acronyms, which is a pretty interesting topic in itself.  We online marketers take it for granted that when we talk about comparing the ROI of a PPC to SEO [...]

Over 30 34 million people have now watched Rebecca Black’s “Friday” music video. It has trended more heavily than the earthquake/tsunami in Japan on Twitter, prompting an ex-YouTube crossover into traditional media including an interview on Good Morning America. Having done my share to spread it around (including this blog post, of course), I think [...]

Anchor text is the lovable clickable blue that links one web page to another. The words in the anchor text indicate what the destination page is about, and through these cues Google builds its index of the world’s web. Naturally, this is of interest to the search engine optimizer, and the control of anchor text [...]

Many companies have jumped on the social media bandwagon but have continued to apply old push advertising tactics when the new advertising is all about pulling in your audience. This means going beyond having a Facebook page and inundating it with brand updates and actually getting new fans AND motivating them to interact. What better [...]