http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog Redefining web development & design Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:37:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the major SEO events in Canada took place last month in Toronto, the SES Toronto conference. The conference was a great opportunity to see and learn about the strategies and techniques being used in the SEO industry nowadays and to get some fresh ideas. Although the quality of the ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/2008-ses-toronto-conference For various reasons, sooner or later companies get an itch to re-design their web sites. The process most commonly begins with requests for quotes from a slew of web design companies found on the first pages of a Google search. If this is the approach you and your ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/the-path-to-website-re-design-success Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), the organization responsible for dot-ca domain name operations, is changing its policy on disclosure of personal information of domain name registrants, to better comply with PIPEDA. Currently anyone can locate the owner of a domain name through a WHOIS search, which displays the person, organization or ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/dot-ca-to-protect-personal-information Statistics Canada recently published Canadian Internet statistics with some double digit increases in 2007. Total internet sales hit an estimated C$62.7 billion in 2007. That's a 26% increase from 2006, mostly from the B2C market. eMarketers' latest article, Canada E-Commerce Growing Quickly, reports that ecommerce is still only 2% of total operating ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/updated-canadian-ecommerce-statistics Have you been hearing about Web 2.0 social bookmarking and wondering what it's all about? This nice video tutorial by commoncraft called, "Social Bookmarking in Plain English", explains the full concept. So go ahead, impress your friend with your swank social skills. Some of the most popular social bookmarking tools ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/dont-be-shytry-social-bookmarking Last Friday, in an article entitled "Dot-Quebec?", The Globe & Mail reported that a Québécois party member started a petition to convince ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, to create a separate domain name extension for Quebec. Province and city level extensions were once commonly used to identify ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/should-quebec-have-its-own-domain-extension On April 15, 2008, Canada's dot-ca (.ca) domain name registration hit the one million mark, placing this Canadian-specific extension as the seventeenth largest Internet domain name registry worldwide. So where does that place Canada in comparison to other country-level domain extensions? Here's where dot-ca ranked in the fifteenth spot back in ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/canadas-one-million-domain-names After seeing first hand the power and results gained from internet marketing initiatives, clients often ask what more can be done. How can you benefit even more from your search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), social media marketing (SMM), or email marketing? Assuming you already have a campaign ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/strategies-for-internet-marketing-growth As a website owner, at some point and for whatever reason, you may come across a need to move your website from your existing web developer, designer, or hosting provider.  It is up to you to supply your new service provider with all necessary files and data.  Gaining all the ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/do-you-have-what-it-takesto-move-your-website Since Friday of last week, we noticed Google consistently generating more Local business listings and dedicating more space to Local findings within the organic search results. Where in previous results a smaller map and 3 business listings popped up with addresses and phone numbers, now you see ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/google-local-changes-organic-search-results