Montreal Social Media

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I am looking for web2.0 sites made in Montreal (or province of Quebec). Have you heard of any other online communities built in the area or targeting our region ? So far I have:

Social news and video

http://www.quebecbuzz.com

http://www.nuouz.com

http://tontuyau.com

http://www.tagtele.com

http://www.quebecjeunes.com/bulles

City guides and reviews

http://www.monavis.ca

http://www.guiderestos.com

Business related

http://www.agentsolo.com

http://www.standoutjobs.com

http://www.smarthippo.com

Sports, leisure and other

http://www.ilovetoplay.com

http://www.recettes.qc.ca

http://www.tapioka.ca

http://www.bountyfishing.com

http://rollaname.com

http://www.weblo.com

http://www.capazoo.com

Content aggregation

http://yulblog.org

Environment and wealth

http://www.amigoexpress.com

http://www.monplanvert.com

http://www.inpowr.com

Even if I cannot say that I am a real fan of the listing concept (all these top 10 reasons or top 20 must seen…), I found several interesting lists in the past few months - all related to internet marketing – truly helpful and I decided to post some of them here:

1. 21 Punching Tips On Social Media Marketing and Social Media Optimization : A great way to be introduced to SMM & SMO, gives definitions, tips, comments and more. It also includes a 5 Must Know Guide on SMM & SMO, 8 articles On How You Can Leverage SMM & SMO to Work for You and few good articles related to Digg and StumbleUpon.
2. Social Bookmarking Sites Uncovered Listed (300+) all tested and live : This list has incredible content. You will find a detailed definition of all the general bookmarking sites as well as public bookmarking sites and non English bookmarking services.
3. 20 Hard Core SEO Tips : some critical advices that you cannot afford to avoid. A short excerpt :’’Stop using keywords in you URLs. Why? Because if you don’t know how to optimize a page without slamming keywords into the URLs, you don’t know how to optimize a Web page.’’
4. The Seven Principles of Community Building : short post but less is more ! Every traditionnal marketer should read this one. It reminds me this awesome Break Up video.
5. 16 Things To Do After Starting A New WordPress Blog : You just started a new WordPress blog, now what’s next ? Even if some of the tips could be considered as obvious (create a feedburner feed for you blog), I really don’t think that most of us still don’t have install important plugins (the All in One SEO Pack, Google Sitemaps plugin, create a Robots.txt file,…) to our blog.
6. 10 Tips for Managing Email Effectively and 10 Reasons I delete Your Email
7. Top 6 Ideas for Incredible Viral Content : It could be done by a quiz, by a interactive video, via tools,… as long as people forward it. Nice recap of all the way that viral goes.
8. Hiring Search Marketers? Five interview Questions You Should Ask PPC Candidates : Besides those traditionnal questions, what else should we ask a PPC guy? SEOmoz answers it.
9. 63 Constructive Opinions on the Best Way to Make Money Online : When a famous blogger asks it audience and when the audience responds.
10. Perfecting Your Pitch, Part One: Assume Short Buildings : well, this one doesn’t entirely match with internet marketing but since I spend most of my time in sales calls, it taught me a lot.

As of december 3rd 2007 : who ranks for seo montreal on Google.ca ?

1. Internet Marketing Inc - www.searchengineoptimizationcompany.ca
2. NVI - www.nvisolutions.com
3. NVI - www.nvisolutions.com
4. Montreal Media - www.montrealmedia.com
5. no company name - www.seomontreal.ca
6. Strategic Marketing Montreal - www.strategicmarketingmontreal.ca
7. Redstonex - www.redstonex.com
8. DNCOM Marketing - www.dncom-marketing.com
9. MediaMarcom - www.mediamarcom.com
10. Groupe Media Synaxiom - www.synaxiom.com

I was having this discussion with Gabriel Goldenberg last week at Yulbiz and we were talking about the value of the seo montreal term. While Gabriel is ranking first and 3^rd on Google.com for seo montreal, he doesn’t appear on the rankings on google.ca. But the main question was more: Is there any real value to rank on seo montreal ? As for my experience , we aren’t receiving quality traffic through this specific term, probably because of the fact that people are not yet aware of seo services, so they are not searching for it. Gab then added that within a year or few, the term should gain value, that does make sense.

I decided today to do a little check up on people who care about ranking on seo montreal. It’s fun to see that the person in the spot #5 has the same phone number as the #1 company. Note also that the montreal seo search gives you almost the same results that you have for seo montreal. There is also this Strategic Marketing Montreal company (based in BC ???) in the spot #6. Anyway, I will try to redo the exercice in few months to see if there is any chages.