Ineedhits

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ineedhits is a search engine marketing and search engine optimization firm.

Founded by Clay Cook in late 1996, incorporating as Business Web in Perth, Western Australia, Australia in 1998. Incorporated as Ineedhits.com Pty Ltd in 2000. Rachel O'Brien joined as a Director and Co-owner 2000 Jackie Shervington joined as CEO in 2004

ineedhits specializes in search engine marketing solutions for small to medium businesses. It has over 500,000 clients worldwide. ineedhits celebrated it's 10 year anniversary in 2006

With no venture funding, the company quickly grew to over 50 staff and won numerous awards in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

ineedhits was the third company to partner (after VeriSign and PositionTech) with Inktomi (now acquired by Yahoo!) to offer its Inktomi Search Submit product (which is now a Yahoo! Search Marketing product) in the paid inclusion market. Yahoo! recently relaunched this service, now ineedhits is one of two, the other being PositionTech as authorized Yahoo! search submit basic resellers.

ineedhits now offers submission, optimization, paid inclusion, and pay per click (PPC) products/services

A recent addition to Clay Cook's success has been the launch of a site called minti.com 2006 which is a social networking site for parents. It has a very quick growing membership with contributions made by the same members on parenting problems and hints amongst others. Members publish articles on Parenting advice as well as interact in the community. Vibe Capital owns Minti.com and is the first vertical to be launched. Vibe Capital also licenses the social engine.

Clay Cook is the Co-founder and CEO of Minti and Vibe Capital. Chairman and Director on the board of ineedhits

Vibe Capital (Minti) is angel funded