Fast Company Readers Rank SEO's Garry Grant as Top Fast 50 Innovator

Fast Company Readers Rank SEO's Garry Grant as Top Fast 50 Innovator

Ranking Assists Magazine Determine Fast 50 Award Winners

CARLSBAD, Calif., Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Garry Grant, president of Search Engine Optimization, Inc., has been selected by Fast Company readers as one of the most popular entries in the magazine's fourth annual Fast 50 reader's challenge.

Selected from thousands of entries worldwide, Fast Company readers voted Grant's entry into the top 10 most popular entries. The reader ratings assist the magazine in determining which submissions spark the Fast Company audience. Fast Company will issue the prestigious Fast 50 awards later this month to recognize the "doers and the dreamers, the truth tellers and the trendsetters," according to the magazine's Web site, http://www.fastcompany.com/ .

Under Grant's watch, SEO Inc. saw revenues more than triple to nearly $6 million in 2004, making SEO Inc. one of the largest U.S. firms dedicated to helping companies raise their internet visibility. The Carlsbad, Calif.-based company signed 37 new clients representing nearly $1.8 million in business in December alone, including two of the giants of the consumer packaged goods and entertainment industries.

"Innovations from our engineering team significantly improved our clients' search engine placement, fueling our spectacular growth," said Grant. "Last year was the best in the company's history, but it is only a small indicator of what we can do in the future."

Officials at SEO Inc. expect gross sales to jump to $15 million this year based on 2004 revenue patterns, business currently in the pipeline and the planned introduction of new products and services.

SEO Inc. full suite of intelligent online marketing services -- including engine-oriented site design, site traffic analysis and commercial products -- have propelled many SEO clients to first-place rankings. For instance, one sports equipment company achieved first-place rankings for more than 5,700 of the 10,000 products contained in its dynamic online catalog. Another gaming and entertainment site saw traffic increase from 2 million to 15 million visitors per month because of top search engine rankings achieved by SEO Inc.

About Search Engine Optimization, Inc.

Search Engine Optimization, Inc. is a professional search engine optimization firm specializing in achieving high rankings for its clients on the Internet's major search engines. SEO Inc. has leveraged seven years of the development of best-of-breed methodologies to place more than 100 websites in top search engine positions. SEO Inc. has offices in Carlsbad and Los Angeles, CA. For more information, visit http://www.seoinc.com/ or call 1-877-736-0006 or 1-760-929-0039.


Source: Search Engine Optimization, Inc.

CONTACT: Caroline Rubenstein of S&S Public Relations, +1-847-415-9344,
crubenstein@sspr.com

Web site: http://www.fastcompany.com/
http://www.seoinc.com/


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