LAKE FOREST, CA – [April 1st, 2009] – Internet marketing specialists Digital Eye Studios has announced it experienced an upswing in business despite bad economic conditions and credits the expansion to the need by businesses to have an increased Internet presence and track their marketing dollars.

Digital Eye experienced a 98 % increase in the fourth quarter of 2008 and a 15 % increase in the first quarter of 2009. New clients say they are looking to allocate more marketing dollars on Internet marketing and SEO because it can be tracked and easier to convert those interested into paying customers. “There was a time when businesses just needed to have a website to establish legitimacy. But now a presence isn’t enough,” said Gary Brewer, president of Digital Eye. “Internet marketing not only includes a functional website that attracts prospects and sells a company and its products or services, but one that is accessible to search engines, provides fresh information continuously and that contains landing pages geared specifically to a target market. The work is often too overwhelming to be done internally. ”

Digital Eye’s success has led the agency to receive the endorsement of search engine optimization expert Steve Wiideman, President of http://www.seoexpert.tv/ and author of SEO Blog Optimization and The Four Layers of the SEO Model: How to Rank Higher in the Search Engines, both books which have been popular and well-received. Wiideman, who has managed million-dollar pay-per-click budgets and turned brick and mortar businesses into Internet profits, continues to refer clients to Digital Eye.  In all cases, Digital Eye has increased traffic and conversions generated from organic and sponsored placements on Google, Yahoo! and MSN.