Jonathan Ashton
Director of SEO
Agency.com

As Director of SEO, Jonathan supports the Agency.com practice disciplines so that the process of designing and building rich interactive experiences results in sites that can be found on the search engines.

Jonathan is a key driver in top-level client engagements at Agency.com, including Aon, CIT, Energizer, Fisher-Price, Jones Lang LaSalle, Hewlett-Packard, Kohler, Timken Bearings and Ulta Cosmetics.

A dedicated expert speaker and patient educator, Jonathan has extensive experience explaining the issues of search engine optimization to all stakeholders. In August, 2007, he participated as a speaker at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose. Jonathan also participated in a Search Engine Strategies conference Clinic in December, 2007. From audiences of C-level marketers at the American Marketing Association and the Business Marketing Association, to groups of programmers and developers like the Technology Executives Club and the Cold Fusion Users Group, Jonathan makes sure that the key messages of SEO get through. A long-standing proponent of SEO best practices, Jonathan is dedicated to sustainable, high-quality strategies that enhance the ability of client sites to sell and inform.

Jonathan has been involved with interactive marketing since 1996 when he was a founding partner of a boutique Internet marketing and interactive application development firm in Chicago. For the ten-plus years prior to his appointment at Agency.com in February, 2007, Jonathan was Partner and Vice President of Business Development for SEO Logic, an innovator in search marketing and long-term strategic optimization management. Back when AltaVista was king and there were just 25 million searches a month, Jonathan and his team worked to ensure that client sites were easy for customers to find in the natural search results. As search engine optimization emerged as a fundamental interactive marketing priority, Jonathan built a stable of major clients relationships including Experian, Penske, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, as well as TruGreen and other brands owned by The ServiceMaster Companies.

Jonathan is a graduate of Northwestern University and lives in Oak Park, IL.