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3/14/2007 This one might have been obvious for many people, but it just hit me today! I don't want to start a fight on this, I was just wondering if all of you ever saw it that way about the Sandbox. There are some days that you know that you are just too close to data to really be able to find what you are searching for. Our company just hired a director to develop the French market in Eur...
3/14/2007 I'm not a fan of mash-ups or videos, but this one is a great shot at describing what is happening with social media and the peer production era. I think it brings one of the biggest question we will be facing with the transparence we can get from the web compared the traditional medias. The machine is Us/ing Us!...
2/20/2007 Although this will seem, to many of you, a very generic list of SEO on-site tips, you may be surprised to see how many SEO consultants and web developers overlook or forget these basic steps when launching a new site. These twenty- four On-site search engine optimisation checkups/tips can assure that any link building / link baiting efforts that will be made will give great results.
2/3/2007 I just spent the last 5 hours going through 30-35% of the entire SEOmoz posts because we're training new interns here, and I wanted them to get a good idea of the whole concept of SEO, some known people, and I basically went through the last 600 articles published by SEOmoz, as well as a few other sources. This is like the wrap up of the most insightfuls only SEO related posts in the ...
1/13/2007 A friend of mine and a skilled developer, Marc-Antoine Ross from DevTaxi, did a great review of Web 2.0 forms and I think it's worth reading! So here it goes: I decided to review the registration forms from most of the sites that made it to the invaluable Web 2.0 Awards. Most of...
12/20/2006 Wow! At least one (probably the only one, hehe) of Rand's predictions is already coming true. There has been, for a while now (more than a year from what I heard), a CMS that allows you to build Digg-like platforms: PLIGG. And let me tell you, there is a bizarre TREND in most of the names - most of them are utterly funny with their &q...
12/10/2006 I was surfing the web and I found one of those "SEO World Championship" launched by a European Internet Marketing company, Eastpoint. The tournament is starting on January 15th 2007 and I had a funny idea. I haven't spoken with Rand about this yet (i.e. Rand: what do you think of thi...
12/1/2006 A few months ago, I was out of my office for an appointment with a client in downtown Montreal. Since I knew (well, I thought I knew!) how Google Adwords IP geotargeting system worked, I wanted to give him a demo with a concrete example. I used, as my example, my own firm's Adwords campaign, which had the keyword “conception web” (translation: “web design”) geotarge...
11/28/2006 I've just been shopping around for a Heat Map tracking software and stumbled upon those two, which looks good to me: CrazyEgg (I think Rand already talked about it), which is simple, easy to use and cost between 0,33$ - 0,80$ / 1 000 visits. I am not sure how deep the metrics are behind it. Has any of you tried it? It is worth it?...
11/23/2006 Sorry for my non-existance lately, I'm back for good now! I've been playing around with this tool - Web CEO Pro, for a while and I've seen Rand mention he was a little bit tired of it because it was expensive, but I'd like to say that for a couple hundred dollars a year (if you don't get into their monthly fees), it can do a pretty goo...
8/31/2006 Today, we jumped off our chairs when we realized what had just happened. One of the major platforms that we are developing, Gigasize, was dugg today... and I can assure you it was totally unplanned. We were in alpha phase, testing out functionalities, improving usability, etc., and then BOOM... thousands and thousands of visitors, peaking ...
8/24/2006 Rand got me all excited with his post. I've been tracking down the French vertical of "web design / website design" theme of keywords for the last 12 months. This vertical is very similar to the English one. As an example, if you wanted to score well for Web Design in English on Google.com, you would try to hit, in the long term, the best keywords, like:...
6/23/2006 Ok... Here's my first grey technique that I attempted last week for one of our site (not to hard to guess which one). Our company was confronted with the following elements: -Dire need to start growing our community on a young domain and newly started blog-Virtually no money to spend on it, only precious planned time from actual employees-No knowledge of any kind for viral m...
5/31/2006 This is for French readers or French audience, especially in Europe and Quebec. It talks about French digg-like websites. Our blog has hit the first page of major French 2.0 digg-like websites for approximately 28hours now . I think most of our French readers would like to know which s...
5/19/2006 Recently, with the success of YouTube, up to 40 videoblog platforms are trying to grasp a part of their marketshare. But what is it all about? The upcoming articles will be trying to identify how the emergence of videoblogging (aka vlogging) can benefit video amateurs and professionals, as well as SEO marketers, journalists and compani...
5/6/2006 Eh! This has been a crazy 2 weeks... SES Toronto, and our business, NVI, just exploded recently! Been pretty busy trying to get all of this together and going through the amazing learning curve of turning NVI into an intense seo/sem research and analysis company. Oh, by the way, if you want to read an awesome book on management, I strongly recommend "Good To Great&quo...
5/1/2006 Some new data has just came out of emarketer concerning Canada's online sales. The data refers to "online sales", which includes both sales paid over the web and those occurring offline (as the result of an online visit). Statistics Canada says that private and public sectors increased 38....
4/27/2006 I had to shout out loud on this one, though ZDNET also wrote a nice article about it. Believe it or not, IE's latest update (went through roughly 10 days ago) has created havoc on the web, for both web designers and end-users. As I type, anyone using Internet Explorer now has to "activate" any flash or active-x element related to their ...