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Robot Salmons SEO Challenge: wrap up

As students of the Interactive Design program at Capilano University we have been assigned many group projects over the course of the last 2 years. But none have been quite so satisfying as our recent SEO challenge that spawned Robot Salmon.

Our challenge was to create a Blog that would be able to draw interested users to it and send them on through to the Interactive Design programs website to learn more about what the program has to offer, the teachers, the facilities etc. We had just under 2 months to create our web presence, build a following of interested viewers, generate content that would keep our new readers coming back and make Robot Salmon a know name in the web design community of Vancouver. Here is a wrap up of how it all flowed for Robot Salmon.

On the road with a traveling web designer

As a student of the Interactive Design program at Capilano University in my last term of the program I have the exciting opportunity to participate in a 6 week practicum… My number one motivating factor in my decision to leave the hospitality industry and jump headlong into the world of web design was my love of travel. I had visions of sitting on the beach somewhere far away from Vancouver and the ominous rain, my trusty laptop in front of me as I worked away on web design contracts. When the practicum opportunity came up I decided to test my theory and travel to Taveuni, an island in Fiji.

Impromptu Street Hockey Game, Street Percussion Orchestra, Street Crowds

As I was walking home after the hockey game from the Corner of Robson and Beaty up to Robson and Howe and the South I saw some really great examples of how Canada celebrates. There were seas of people all singing and dancing, draped in Canadian flags. It was all at once intimidating and inspiring. [...]