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Re: Bonjour le Québec ! Quebecer local version is up.

Samuel Lavoie — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:42:19 -0000

Merci pour cette version locale, c'est très apprécié.

Re: I am Legend Review

Samuel Lavoie — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:07:47 -0000

Very exact same thoughts for me. The film missed something to be more than just good and btw Will Smith did a great job, as always.

Re: 200+ Internet Marketing Gurus on Twitter

Samuel Lavoie — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:22:31 -0000

http://twitter.com/sammyQc
SEO at NVI solutions in the great North.

Re: Un remède à la Flashturbation?

Samuel Lavoie — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:09:23 -0000

Oui il y a un besoin dans l'industrie je pense vers un meilleur Web, un Web axé sur les résultats marketing, usability, accessibility, etc. Des sites que les gens veulent visiter et utiliser, non plus uniquement des vitrines visuelles.

Espérons que ce vent amènera à du concret, que ce soit par de nouveaux concours ou au sein même des entités existantes aujourd'hui.

Samuel Lavoie
by night : membre de l'exécutif du W3Quebec.org
by day : seo consultant chez NVI solutions ;)

Re: WordPress vs. Drupal – Battle of the CMS

Samuel Lavoie — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:26:17 -0000

For me, both are good CMS, and as you really well point out, WP is better if you want to build a Blog site, or just a medium website around a blog. Drupal can be really more powerful under the hood to build massive website especially community driven website.
Also I would recommend WP for a non php coder, a html/css beginner webmaster.

Well done article Brian :)

Re: Website+Grader+Gives+Out+Free+SEO%26nbsp%3BTips

Samuel Lavoie — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:21:25 -0000

Great tool, working smoothly now. Great to get some infos mashup fast.

Re: Using CSS & JavaScript to move content & improve rankings

Samuel Lavoie — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:07:31 -0000

I'm pretty sure if you use those techniques wisely, it just help.

Just don't try to fool too much google as it become more and more human... and will be
I personnaly use CSS to move content to be show in the right order for screen reader (and SE's).

Re: And then I had 60 iPod Nanos

Samuel Lavoie — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:48:50 -0000

An iPod Nano for the first 30 comments in this post, sound fair to me :D

or do something like ask everyone to write a comment/story about a book/ebook/podcast related to SEO they like and then take the best 30.

Re: Government agency sued for its migration to Windows Vista

Samuel Lavoie — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:30:12 -0000

Good to see that the government can't do what they want with our money everytime... and of course Open Source solutions are a better bet.

Re: Internal Link Architecture for your website

Samuel Lavoie — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:06:36 -0000

Really agree with you Tony, the point of using "click here" anchor text can be tempting for seo who want to looks more natural. But in the long run, that doesn't offer any context to the end user for who we build websites in the first place...

Re: Praized’s guerilla marketing tactics

Samuel Lavoie — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:21:38 -0000

I'm looking at this praized thing since a few weeks getting a few bits of informations once in a while. Getting more people using it and you can use the power of communities to push local stores and companies or ... razed them ;)

Re: Praized’s guerilla marketing tactics

Samuel Lavoie — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:26:39 -0000

+1 for Martin
@George the third observation is interesting, wonder how its gonna end up. I would personally like to have some sort of cross community infos, at least for myself and my friends..

Re: Is SEO a Dying Industry?

Samuel Lavoie — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:14:34 -0000

The shoe's post is a great example of how a viral content can work and create discussion..

@Jaan agree with you, Shoe is right on traditional SEO.

SEO the way some companies doing it right now is dying soon IMO, ie. linkbuilding, bad website, no content, to much ppc, etc..

On the other hand, SEO is more going toward Information Architect, UX, copywriting skills, front end web development... all that through better internet strategist.

Samuel Lavoie's last blog post..Intracom 08, April 29th in Quebec City

Re: SEO Has No Future

Samuel Lavoie — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:30:42 -0000

Nice linkbait post, way to get buzz.

Think more and more companies need to put more emphasis on UX, good content, etc to get natural links than throwing shit at the wall and see what stick...
this post is one great proof of how great content/viral content can attract links and traffic.. ;-)

Re: Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Samuel Lavoie — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:24:53 -0000

Great post Tamar, really enjoy it. It sums up pretty well how a feel about Digg, a lot of changes happen since i'm on it (08/2008), not always for the better.
I eager to see some Mixx functionalities especially the groups that can really reshape the Digg frontpage and push usability up for users... ok maybe marketing companies pushing for digg frontpage won't be happy, but hey its a community, there'll be always good opportunity, just gonna change the approach.

Re: Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Samuel Lavoie — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:24:53 -0000

Re: Rumor Mill: Google Acquiring Digg

Samuel Lavoie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:59:12 -0000

"What makes a story popular on Digg? Apple, Google, Linux, Nintendo, or anything promoted by a social media marketer."

I'll correct to "anything promoted by a good social media marketer who understand the conversations going on those medias."

About Digg, I hope they can stay as useful as they are with more features to enhance community empowering.

Samuel Lavoie's last blog post..Silverlight, the Microsoft RIA, Keynote at the W3Québec meetup

Re: Twitter: Ultimate Time Waster or Great Tool?

Samuel Lavoie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:08:04 -0000

Best post about Twitter I have ever see, thanks for sharing this!

Re: Free ‘Starkers’ Wordpress theme

Samuel Lavoie — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:04:44 -0000

Wonder if there’s any news about a new version of Starkers maybe merging with the Sandbox theme? Keep up the great work Elliot.

Re: Adobe Makes Flash Searchable - The Holy Grail of Website Usability?

Samuel Lavoie — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:32:56 -0000

Wow I can't imagine how much misinterpretation of that by SEO and Marketing people I'm gonna hear in the next few weeks with that kind of news...

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