Rodli Web Strategies

Will social media sites help you?

brettrodli — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:36:49 +0000

Whether it is Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, or the next advancement in social media websites, the question is: will it bring you more customers/clientele?

By itself, it will not increase traffic to your website. It requires networking, just like physical networking with associates of similar and different industries. At Rodli Web Strategies, we believe that Facebook will have a long lasting appeal because of the interaction between long lost friends, current friends, and family.

If you break the social media barrier, then you may pick up new clients, or establish a stronger foundation with your current clients. If you are interested in establishing a social media presence and strategy, then contact us. We enjoy the challenge of solidifying the clientele’s base of customers, and bringing in new customers.

It should not take long to point you in the right direction and empower you to increase your own website’s visibility…isn’t that what social media interaction is about? Empowering you…

Search Engine Optimization and YouTube

brettrodli — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:24:35 +0000

Rodli Web Strategies recently assisted Carl Mann Outfitting with various search engine optimization techniques to improve traffic. One particular area which significantly improved traffic and clientele was the use of YouTube.com. We took a couple of segments of Carl’s DVDs and added them to YouTube, including a 4 minute hunting segment.

In one year, this particular video had over 50,000 views on YouTube. This drove traffic up to an average of 3,000 visitors per month.

Utilizing YouTube for search engine optimization

Another client who have experienced success with YouTube is EnviroMission with over 100,000 view since December 2006.

Rodli Web Strategies offers an affordable web-based commercial to add to your website and to add on YouTube. For a fixed rate, we will take still images, add text and royalty-free soundtrack, with an average runtime of 1 minute. We will add it to the website and YouTube. It is vital that the YouTube account is set up properly and the video is tagged to maximize the possibility of being found. We provide this service, and a presence on YouTube will become more important over the next few years.

This is one aspect to our search engine optimization services. Contact us for more information about our YouTube strategy and our search engine optimization services.
T: (406) 370-7197 E: contact@rodli.com

Is a sophicated website worth the price for small businesses?

brettrodli — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:47:19 +0000

People are often under the impression that the latest technologies, programming languages and flash designs will ensure success for their website. This is simply not true. Too often, small businesses, who do not have a large budget to devote to their website/internet strategies, will hire designers to build the latest and greatest website. Often these website are designed in PHP or ASP, they have Flash, and other website-enhancing features. But is that necessary for your website? Incorporating these items into your website usually costs you substantially more than utilizing images, java scripts and HTML.

By choosing the sophisticated designs, you will be charged substantially higher rates for the creation and future maintanence of the website. It will also challenge you to find better or a more affordable designers, should you become unsatisfied with the service of the current designers, because only a handful of people can understand and work with complicated website codes and technologies.

When considering a new website or a website redesign, ask yourself if it is necessary to have all of the latest technologies. Often times, an effective website can be designed with images, javascripts and HTML coding. This will likely cost you less to design, cost less to maintain and add features in the future. It will also be easier to choose from designers who can easily take over the website should you become dissatisfied with your current designers.

At Rodli Web Strategies, we recognize that many small businesses do not have the capital to spend thousands on their website design and strategies. We tailor our designs to maximize the budget, so that future maintenance and strategies can be explored. We are aware of designers in the area who will start their quote at $5,000.00. This is way too much for a typical business website! Visit with us about our rates, and what is included with our quotes, such as search engine optimization and strategies. If you have a typical website, then we can save you thousands, without compromising a professional appearance and solid search engine optimization strategies.

Call us at (406) 370-7197 or email us at: contact@rodli.com

Are you thinking of buying a template website, or content management system?

brettrodli — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:53:26 +0000

Many non-profit and businesses are beginning to utilize CMS (content management systems) for their ease-of-use and affordable pricing. This is a good alternative for those organization on a very tight budget, but “you get what you pay for”. CMS is essentially buying a template website that you can add content and some images, perhaps a few other items. However, by utilizing CMS, you often times forfiet original designs, search engine optimization, lack of a professional appearance, overloaded content and features (particularly on the homepage) that distract and perhaps turn away potential viewers, and should anything go wrong, you may be without support to remedy the problem. These are some of the issues we have come across as organizations with CMS come to us to look for answers and directions, most notably, non-profit organizations!

I recently came across a potential client who implemented a CMS design but was not ranking on search engines. We were able to optimize the website for search engines by importing the design and making the necessary modifications. We reviewed another potential client who utilized CMS for their business, and it confirmed to us the importance of having a professional provide layout, strategies and optimization to best represent your business or organization. In fact, this blog is a CMS, which we decided to utilize for experiment’s sake, and to maintain an understanding of the functionality and advancement of CMS. But, this blog also has significant limitations that a website designed from “scratch” cannot replicate.

If you are considering CMS for your business, consider the risks: you may lack sufficient optimization, presentation, layout and frankly, the support necessary to maintain a long-term website. It may be worth your time to have one of our professionals review your current website regardless of whether or not it is a CMS, and allow us to provide you with some strategies, or allow us to make adjustments to optimize the website.

Upcoming Event

brettrodli — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:20:36 +0000

Rodli Web Strategies will be assisting it’s client Grant Hartford Corp. (www.granthartford.com) with its annual Shareholder meeting June 25. In preparation for the meeting, we have redesigned their website and we will be assisting Grant Hartford with a live, streaming video event. The video will begin at 1:30pm MST and will present the Garnet Gold Project.

Grant Hartford has recently filed it’s S-1 with the SEC. The company is in the process of becoming a public company via an IPO. We have assisted numerous private companies with their website/internet strategies as they became publicly-listed companies.

If you are interested in similar services for your business / organization, please contact our office for further details.