It appears that the Advertising Agency, LaBov & Beyond has launched a complete blank page in Google that violates many of the technical guidelines in Google.
Such as :
Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.
We had trouble initially finding the site in the search engines …
The site was lacking even the most basic meta description and meta keyword tags, hence detracting from the general ad agency argument that it’s for ‘look and feel’ since those metas are not even displayed to the end user. We haven’t found any other attempt at Search Engine Optimization within the site, as it loads entirely from a single flash process. (IE: the URL’s don’t even change).
Henry Freeman on Feb 19th, 2008 at 9:36 pm wrote:
“I am a senior web developer, architect, and have personally done over a million in interactive work in the last years.”
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I am 26, four years out of college, and I am better than you.
That is all.
Henry Freeman on Feb 19th, 2008 at 9:36 pm wrote:
“I am a senior web developer, architect, and have personally done over a million in interactive work in the last years.”
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I am 26, four years out of college, and I am better than you.
That is all.
After reading everything and checking out the labov website I have to say their site is lame technically, visually, contextually, and functionally…or not functional is the problem.
After reading everything and checking out the labov website I have to say their site is lame technically, visually, contextually, and functionally…or not functional is the problem.
The site is currently not working, the “draw” option on the Contact Us page pops up to a copy of the home page. There are also some other weird quirk such as when you click on “Our Leadership” and then on Cathy Schannen, you will find if you believe the website she is bald and has nice facial hair! Overall I find the site to lack creativity, it seems the overall concept must have been driven by someone who lacks interactive experience, vision, and creativity (just my opinion).
There is a consistent theme of arrogance as well. I define arrogance, as it applies to this, as touting thyself without proper reasoning, facts, or even a hint of a reason as to WHY you are just so darn cool.
Has anyone seen www.labovideafactory.com, the site has a completely blank front page that lacks content. Viewing the sites history shows more of the same detailed above. This factory site seems to focus on criticising others in the industry including companies and other agencies, wow holy bad PR Batman! I guess the point would be “they are bad, so we are good”. Wonderful reasoning!
The site is currently not working, the “draw” option on the Contact Us page pops up to a copy of the home page. There are also some other weird quirk such as when you click on “Our Leadership” and then on Cathy Schannen, you will find if you believe the website she is bald and has nice facial hair! Overall I find the site to lack creativity, it seems the overall concept must have been driven by someone who lacks interactive experience, vision, and creativity (just my opinion).
There is a consistent theme of arrogance as well. I define arrogance, as it applies to this, as touting thyself without proper reasoning, facts, or even a hint of a reason as to WHY you are just so darn cool.
Has anyone seen www.labovideafactory.com, the site has a completely blank front page that lacks content. Viewing the sites history shows more of the same detailed above. This factory site seems to focus on criticising others in the industry including companies and other agencies, wow holy bad PR Batman! I guess the point would be “they are bad, so we are good”. Wonderful reasoning!
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Is Labov & Beyond Ethical?
Is Labov & Beyond Ethical?