NVI blog: SEO, web design and social media

What domainers may want to learn before purchasing a domain + ranking package
Have you ever been approached by someone trying to sell you a domain with a ranking attached? This counter-intuitive conundrum comes up consistently among my colleagues. If the domain is already ranking, why is the current owner not simply trying to monetize [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]