Comments on: Ad Agencies: Making More Usable Websites

By: rosetta Nievas

rosetta Nievas — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:50:10 +0000

We have used this principle on our language teaching website and have had good success with getting more traffic.

By: california seo companies

california seo companies — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:24:15 +0000

Nice post….very useful information…..

By: CVOS

CVOS — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:22:59 +0000

Here’s what I would do in your situation:

use a framed website and keep your own site content in a small top frame. the bottom frame would externally link to youtube.

By: Bill Allen

Bill Allen — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:27:37 +0000

Yeah, that’s mostly because of the nature of the re-direct. We used a php based script that hits before any of the header tags. So the redirect actually sends crawlers to youtube and they index the page as booneoakley.com.

Probably a javascript based redirect would allow the metatags on booneoakley.com/index.html to get picked up normally. However, and this is probably an old stigma, I trust php more than javascript and we wanted to make sure the redirect was relatively bulletproof.

I’m probably just being paranoid there. Thanks again.

By: CVOS

CVOS — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:44:25 +0000

Thanks for the comments Bill. I applaud your creativity.

Im sure this approach works well for your specific business. Many firms have no need to be found for keywords in internet search engines and flourish based on the quality of their work, word of mouth, a great client database etc.

My point was to warn firms that doing this will effectively remove your domain name from the search engines: boonoakley.com is not displayed in the search engine results pages.

http://www.google.com/search?q=boone+oakley

By: Bill Allen

Bill Allen — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:41:38 +0000

Lists are awesome, sorry if that sounded obnoxious.

By: Bill Allen

Bill Allen — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:28:27 +0000

A. Thanks for the post
B. We’re not a large agency, we just have some large clients who want a small, fast, forward thinking partner.
C. We do have SEO, maybe not in mountains of text, although check this out: http://www.seo-browser.com/index.php?user_agent=1&address=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.booneoakley.com&action=Parse+URL
Meta tags, lots of readable content on the page, more than any flash driven website, also hundreds and hundreds of inbound links from very searchable blogs.

D. The point of the site isn’t to have a central hub, but instead to be everywhere. Why even leave your blog when the whole story is right here (albiet you can see more if you click through). The only thing we really did to promote the site were a couple of posts on Twitter and Facebook.
E. It’s an ad agency site, and an experiment in creating buzz. If we can’t do it with our own site … where can we do it? Also I’m still up in the air about what SEO brings our particular company. Maybe some of the agencies that are drafting our name can benefit but that’s not how we pull in business.
F. About $10 worth of paper and pencils == killer ROI.

Thanks for your post.