NVI blog: SEO, web design and social media

Here’s a video that Agustin found on the “Interwebs”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClUYw0Mkaow

Erik talks about his attempts to find love on the main social platforms to promote his own website, Famous Last Nerds. Those guys are well-known in the funny videos field since their participation on the Robot Chicken stop motion animated show in US.
Link sex doesn’t exist yet [...]

NVI has been so overwhelmed by our organic growth (we’ve been doubling in employees every year since we started the company) that we never really had the time to setup our English blog… until now
I’m so glad this is happening. Julie Babin did an amazing job with Julien Roudaut to get this blog [...]

So the new Propeller design just came out. My god. No, it’s not April 1st. It’s a design so bad it wouldn’t even be plausible as the poster-child for bad design. Ok, maybe not that bad. Just kidding - it IS that bad. “What were they thinking,” is the appropriate cliché. See/click on the photo [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Quite unambiguously, I rate the Google Adwords Search Query report a number out of 10. That’s right, a stunning #/10.
The Google Adwords search query report is designed to help you see the entire phrase your visitors searched for, when that search matches a ‘broad match’ or ‘phrase match’ - in other words, when what the [...]

Let me tell you a little story.I was going to pick up a friend at the Airport in Montreal and he called me to say his flight was going to be delayed. “No problem I said, I’ll check your updated arrival in real time and come and get you when you land!”
So off I [...]

Below are observations I’ve noted, some my own, some from others, about the kinds of psychological changes that occur in webmasters. These changes don’t apply to everyone equally, of course. Webmasters come in all shapes and sizes, and each looks at their role in a unique way, with unique ambitions and plans. The list is [...]

Since it’s my first post on this blog (and the first post on this blog at all), let me introduce myself and this blog before going into the meat of the article. My name is Francis Vallieres and I work for NVI Solutions, a Montreal SEO company, since May 2007. I have a long-time background [...]