Update on Gary Ward's site (Magic?)

Below you will see a screen grab of Gary Ward's new site. Previously I have blogged about site design, Flash and the problems associated with total Flash sites. Gary had his site for nearly 6 months I believe without ever being found on the searches he wanted. We took his site and re-constructed it remaining faithful to his original design. (As faithful as we could).

We launched the site Friday. Four days ago. Gary is busy getting content in to the site with our Total Control and WebFolio tools. You can visit the new site at www.gmanstudios.com. You can see his old Flash site at www.gmanstudios.com/oldsite. You can see for yourselves that with the exception of things 'movin' around' the site is very similar.

Results: This afternoon I recieved an email from Gary. subject line: "Oh..my...goodness! Is it magic???" In the email was a screenshot he had just done with his site listed at #4 on one of his main search criteria "Lifestyle photographer Phoenix" See second image below.


Also you will notice that his navigation is picked up as well as his page name. This is without Gary's home page copy which he is working on.

We don't call this Search Engine Optimization... we call it smart design. Daniel and I have a strong belief in the power of design, and we think that designing for better search engine ranking is even more important than choosing the coolest new hip font.

Now with this site Gary can start to work on gaining high ranking and placement with Adwords or YPN campaigns. Without the power to attract the search engines instead of ignoring them with Flash, the results should be significant. (Yes. I blurred the Google AdWords on the side. They are Gary's competitors and we remain loyal to our clients.)