Fuel SEO Packages Come Down in Price

The gurus at Fuel SEO (FuelSEO.com) have determined that manual submissions to tons of free web directories are not quite as important in this day and age. Removing these services from their search engine ranking packages has allowed for a totally new billing structure.

This translates to equally effective ranking services at a fraction of the price! Search engine ranking packages now start as low as $39 per month! The Fuel SEO team says that they can get your site first page rankings in just 3 months!

The Fuel SEO Team had this to say... "We are still providing directory submission services, however we are focusing on paid directories with a high PageRank. Inbound links are still just as important as ever, but the search engines are more interested in quality than quantity.

Visit our website FuelSEO.com and view our new packages. Stay tuned for more exciting news of our adventures in SEO!"

Have your Flash and SEO it too!

I know the title of this entry is cheesy, but it's so very true. This is not exactly new news that I'm reporting, but it is little known and it's VERY important.

Since birth back in 2003, Fuel Multimedia has specialized in creating Flash websites. The modern world changes a lot in 6 years. The internet changes a whole lot in 6 years! We are always working in the lab to come up with fresh and effective ways to improve our products and services.

The internet has always been chock full of 2 basic categories of website: Flash sites and traditional HTML sites. Until blue in the face, people will tell you how building a Flash website is search engine suicide. Others will tell you that traditional HTML sites are boring and cannot provide an engaging interactive experience.

We are here to tell you that you can have both!

We've developed methods of content delivery that allow users to enjoy the animations, menus and sounds of Flash while simultaneously rendering the same information in plain old Text/HTML for non-flash browsers and search engines!

Here's a small example: Liquor Group - Interactive Distribution Map

This Flash movie is displayed in an HTML/Flash hybrid website. When a search engine reads this page, they see a textual representation of the data in the map.

FL | Florida | LG provides distribution in Florida
GA | Georgia | LG provides distribution in Georgia | Franchise State
HI | Hawaii | LG provides distribution in Hawaii
ID | Idaho | LG provides distribution in Idaho | Control State
IL | Illinois | LG provides distribution in Illinois | Planned Expansion

Many of the other examples we'd like to show you are still in development. We'll be posting those as soon as they are ready to be seen by the public.

Contact Fuel Multimedia today and find out what kinds of Web Design and SEO magic we can work for you!

Search engine success: google love!

Our experimental website CloneYourPet.net just turned 5 months old on July 18th. We're so very proud of this little guy! We have some results that we are excited to share with you. As you may know, the initial purpose of this natural experiment was to determine what kind of boost in rankings one may get in the search engines when the target search phrase is in the domain name itself. What we found is that this definitely gives you an initial boost, but that boost is short-lived.

Visibility Chart for CloneYourPet.net

CloneYourPet.net - A little history
We launched the site on February 18th, submitted to search engines on the 23rd, and appeared in the first page of google's results 13 days later. Unfortunately this triumph was fleeting and we dissapeared after 7 days at the top. Our website resurfaced in google about a month later at position #110. That's a far cry from #8, but at least we were back! Once our site reappeared in google, we began climbing the ranks. A week later, we were up to #98. Twenty days after that, we had climbed to #56. Just one week later, we rocketed to #8 again! That was May 14th, 2009 and we are thrilled to announce that we've been holding steady between #5-7 ever since!

The above example refers to google.com using the search phrase clone your pet. At the time of writing this article, a quick google search reveals that we're currently #5. Here are a few other highlights.

1. google.com search phrase: cloning your pet = #6
2. google.com search phrase: clone a pet = #9
3. google.com search phrase: cloned pets = #19
4. yahoo.com search phrase: cloning your pet = #1
5. yahoo.com search phrase: clone your pet = #1
6. yahoo.com search phrase: pet clone = #6
7. yahoo.com search phrase: clone a pet = #8

What about building traffic?
In our last article on this project, we mentioned that we were going to shift our focus to building traffic for our pet cloning website. Pet cloning, while very interesting, is not yet a very hot topic. The average monthly search volume for "cloning your pet" is just 91. That means on average, 91 people are searching google for this phrase each month. The interesting news is that in the month of July, cloneyourpet.net received nearly 300 unique visitors. 85% of these visits were referred by search engines.

What's all this mean?
Well, it means that once pet cloning becomes more popular, we can expect to see a DRAMATIC increase in traffic to our website. It means that our methods of obtaining and maintaining first page rank in the search engines are working. It also means that the tools we use to collect data about website traffic and rank are extremely useful and accurate. Finally, it means that we are ready to begin our next SEO experiment, which will be in a more competetive niche.

Stay tuned for more information on this and other exciting SEO experiments, web design innovations and other useful tidbits!