NVI blog: SEO, web design and social media

Meet John Fanous and Bill Aver of the Yellow Pages Group. We caught up with John and Bill at SES Toronto 2010 and sat down with them to chat about Local SEO.
Yellow Pages is now offering Local SEO services in Canada. John explained to us that the company is in the business of helping businesses [...]

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 [...]

This is Guy Barrette, a .NET developer from Montreal who wears many hats: in addition to being the President of the Montreal .NET Community, he’s also a Microsoft Regional Director for the Montreal region, an MVP for ASP/ASP.NET, and the host of the Visual Studio Talk Show.
We caught up with Guy at Confoo where he [...]

While we were at Confoo, NVI also got a chance to sit down with Joey Devilla from Microsoft Canada. It was nice to meet Joey because we’re we’re currently working on a project with Microsoft called Make Web Not War. The project is actually a conference on interoperability, and there’s also a contest component [...]

This is an interview with Brendan Sera-Shriar (aka @digibomb), an open-source web developer. We caught up with Brendan the night before Confoo at the pub that all the speakers were hanging out at. Brendan was scheduled to give a presentation, as well as sit on a panel. He told us about his new project, CreerMag.com. [...]

Meet Sebastian Bergmann, a co-founder of thePHP.cc and the creator of PHPUnit.. We caught up with Sebastian at Confoo, where he was giving a presentation on PHPUnit. For those of you who don’t know (and I didn’t until I met Sebastian), PHPUnit is the de-facto standard for unit testing PHP applications. Sebastian discussed with us [...]

Meet Paul Reinheimer, the Lead Developer at Mansef. Paul gave a presentation at Confoo last week on PHP development at the enterprise level — i.e. building sites and apps that can handle some serious traffic. We caught up with him after his presentation and Paul took some time to discuss with us what developers should [...]

This is the second part of our interview with Gregg Tilston, the man in charge of SEO and Social Media for FlightCentre.ca. In this clip, Gregg gets down to business and discusses how FlightCentre.ca is using social media to drive traffic back to their site. He describes their strategy as being analogous to the airline’s [...]