GraFX Software Solutions Announces Search Engine Optimization Tools for Direct Admin

[lvalics]

New release enhance popular Direct Admin Control Panel with new revolutionary tools. GraFX ltd. today announced Search Engine Tools for Direct Admin, 8 tools that enhance the popular Direct Admin Control Panel providing new possibilities for those who own a domain on the hosting servers.

GraFX ltd. today announced Search Engine Tools for Direct Admin, 8 tools that enhance the popular Direct Admin Control Panel providing new possibilities for those who own a domain on the hosting servers.
SEO Tools for Direct Admin covers now the requirements of a reserved domain - such as the preparation to be launched on the market and its optimization in order to attract as many visitors as possible from its domain.
SEO Tools for Direct Admin offers webserver owners 8 tools that help them verify their site in order to be error free, to analyse the keywords and to generate the meta-tags, to promote the domain in search engines (site submit), to learn about the competitors and many more.

"We have had cotinuously customers requesting the verification of their website before being launched and its optimization in different search
engines like Google, MSN or Yahoo. In order to fulfill their requirements, we had to search for different tools on the Internet and we had to work a few days in order to do the optimization job. That was when we realised that these tools are a must have in the hosting account Control Panel, as they are easy to use for anyone who has access to them. But our customers had no idea about their existence. This is how we came to the idea to
add them in Direct Admin." declared Lehel Valics, CEO at GraFX ltd.

Thus the new solution includes useful SEO tools such as:
- HTML/XHTML compatibility check, verifies the pages in order to detect errors, suggests correction
- Spider Check (verifies the pages just like a spider, in hidden special headers, suggests correction
- Meta Tag Generator - meta keywords and meta description, generator and all that is necessary for a correct header
- Site Submit - subscription in search engines, Submit Check verifies the submitted domain to see whether it is listed
- Position Check verifies a certain keyword or more keywords in order to see the positioning of the website
- Link popularity verifies the number of links on other websites to the website in discussion
- Competitor Analisys based on certain keywords to learn more about the competitors and their positioning.

"It was a challenge for us to develop this software, but it was worthed every minute. We are confident that this solution will become a must have for webserver administrators, as using it they will be able to optimize a website at minimal costs," said Kinga Laura Ambrus, marketing manager at GraFX ltd.

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
SEO Tools for Direct Admin price is 69USD/Server. Expected to ship in middle of february 2006.

ABOUT GRAFX LTD
GraFX ltd is a Web development company that specializes in innovative online applications. We deliver high-quality solutions based on the latest technologies to help our clients enhance their presence on the Web, starting from CMS applications to shopping carts, Macromedia Dreamweaver extensions and other web tools. For more information, please visit http://www.grafxsoftware.com .

Contact Information
Valics Lehel
GRAFX
http://www.grafxsoftware.com

[hostpc.com]

SEO Tools for Direct Admin price is 199USD/Server

:o

OUCH - thats nearly the cost of a lifetime Directadmin license

[lvalics]

Price is not final yet, we are thinking on lifetime (199USD), recurring one and lifetime with 1 year support, then SUS renewal.

Of course you can think like this.
Hire a SEO guy and pay 500USD/domain to optimize it or pay 199USD/unlimited domains (around 100 usually) so is 2USD/Domain.
Just ask 1USD additional from a domain owner for this additional services and you get out investment very soon.

[sullise]

Or download a myriad of free SEO tools that do the same thing.

;)

Don't get me wrong, I think the idea of having built in tools for SEO is a good marking tool in this competitive business,but it's not an essential one.

You also need to think about your audience. You're marketing to webhosts, some of whom may have dozens of servers, etc. And most hosts run lean in the profit area to keep costs down.

Even something that is as useful as Lasman Spamblocker Plugin is a luxury at $30 a pop (since you can do what it does with little bit of bash scripting) for those with multiple servers.

I just think $199 is a price that is not going to attract a lot of sales. Bit that's just my opinion.

[lvalics]

I appreciate, we will think on this opinion.

[sullise]

Glad you took it in the spirit it was intended. :) Was afraid it might come off as an attack, which it wasn't. :P

[lvalics]

NO, is not our way to think.
The thing is that we are stucked, cause we released last year for PLESK and there is per domain the license, 30 domains - 99USD, 100 Domains, 300 domains and Unlimited to 399USD.
The bestsellers is 30 domains and Unlimited.

So because on Direct Admin is only unlimited available, we don't know how to do.
We can try to modify to work with 30, 100, 300 and unlimited domains, I like to wish your opinion, who use DA from years.

But again, we thinked this software as an ADDON for Control Panels. ADMIN can ask 1 USD/month additional to activate it this mean 12USD/year/domain. 12 x 30 domain only is 360USD, which is already a profitable business.
Think as a VALUABLE ADDON if customer want it. If not want it, the software is built in that way that offer only 3 tools as a DEMO, so still can use it, just not on FULL power.

You will see soon screenshoots, what can I say is that PLESK users are very happy about it.

Also we are thinking on solutions to contact hosting companies and offer as a LOW price on higher volume, so if someone buy over 50 license, will get it for a very LOW price.

Thank you again.

[lvalics]

A few screenshoots ...
http://da.grafx.ro/

[sullise]

Looks good from the screenshots.

Still. $199 times say 20 servers = $4000. Hefty investment.

[lvalics]

Nooo, IS FAR FROM THAT.

1 server 199 (PRICE IS not final).
3 servers 15% OFF.
5 servers 20% OFF.
10 Server 30% OFF.
50 Servers 40% OFF.
100 or more Call us :-))

It will be something like this.
For example you can buy Direct Admin for 199USD LifeTime, but if you buy it from a hosting company on a dedicated server you can get it included in price, probabbly 5USD/month.
At least this is happening with PLESK, a lot of company offering this in 69USD is a dedicated server and is included PLESK.
Probabbly exist for Direct Admin as well similar.
So same will be with our plugins, hosting companies will include in price as addon for X USD/month (small amount).

So if you have 1 server, then is expensive, but if you have more or you get it from a company who resell our solution, then will be a low price.

[nobaloney]

Well, I guess it's time for me to add my two (U.S.) cents' worth:

$199 is a lot of money. Even a small hosting company is going to think twice about adding the product to their servers at that price, and for larger companies the investment is quite a bit, even with discounts.

Believe it or not, our $30 addon is still deemed quite expensive by most admins.

Do you know why your product works at your price point for Plesk? I do. It's because Plesk is priced so much higher and attracts a completely different kind of hosting company.

Now, let's address a specific scenario you mentioned:

Would we be willing to buy it for the dedicated servers we rent out? Possibly, but not at your current price points.

What we'd look for is a method we could install it on our servers and pay by the user who uses it.

You suggest $1 per user as our selling price, so then let us pay you 50c per user and we both do okay :) .

If you can make that work, then talk to us .

Jeff

[lvalics]

We will try to think what is the best way to handle price. We don't want to lose customers, but also there is some cost what we need to cover, so we will be probabbly somewhere in the middle.

[resolveit]

Here's my 2c worth... When pricing the SpamBlocker Plugin we set up a Poll and initially 80% of people chose the lowest price.

This has now gone up to 90% choosing the lowest price (after we fixed the price at the higher end of the lowest price-range. I believe that we would sell a lot more if we priced it at half of what we charge now.

The final price is up to you to decide but at $30 you will still have limited sales, at $99 you'll probably get a couple of companies with a single server and at $199 you might get 1 or 2 sales. If you price it at $20 you'll probably get about 1/3 of the DA community interested and priced at $10 it would become a nobrainer for most admins. You should considder the limited DA market and based on my experience the lower the price, the more sales and the more income.

Once again what you sell your plugin for is up to you, I just thought I'd share our pricing-experience with you.

[lvalics]

We have reconsidered price for DA plugin ... after a long brainstorming (and your help).

Price will be like this:
- 69USD/server (with preorder will be 39USD for 1 month period)
- 29USD For bulk (20+) license purchases
- 19USD For bulk (100+) license purchases

Prices will be 1 year free support and 1 year free upgrade, then a renewal of 40% of price, example: for 69 USD, renewal will be 28 USD.

Thank you again for your help.
What is very important that TRIAL will be available for 30 days, so anyone can test it and make survers on customers if they want this kind of tools.

[blacknight]

That pricing is a more reasonable, though it's still on the high side.

$69 / server - so at $1/ year per user I would need to sell 69 instances?
I suppose I could live with that

Installatron, for example, is $60 for the first year and $20 per annum renewal or $110 for a lifetime license.

End result - we don't even think twice when installing a server for ourselves or a client - we simply get a license.

In either case I'd be interested in getting at least one license to "play with", but I can't see any details of the software on your site.

[nobaloney]

If I may make another point, Installatron keeps working if you don't renew it.

All the renewal does is give you new updates, etc.

Personally I want to buy a monthly license or a forever license.

At a fair price.

Jeff

[lvalics]

Also all of our softwares work after 1 year expiry. just updates need a renewal.
So never expiry to work, just you cnanot get new version after 1 year.
I think that the best way is to ask for a small price (usually to renew is 40%) to get updates, in this way we can keep up to date to latest tehnology and cover the costs.

[blacknight]

Valics

So where is the software?

[lvalics]

1-2 day and is ready to test for downloading, we want to finish here installer into Direct Admin.
We used shell installer on other Control Panels, but seems that is more easier in Direct Admin through Plugin Installer.

[blacknight]

Ah ok. I thought from reading the announcements etc., that you already had it ready for sale etc.,

If you need any assistance testing it let me know

[lvalics]

Beta 1 was sent out to all who requested, if you did not received our mail, please drop a line.

[blacknight]

I'd be interested, but you didn't give an email address to request it :)

[lvalics]

support @ grafxsoftware.com

[sullise]

Just sent you an email...:)

[lvalics]

Some guys asked when will start pre-order.
Pre-order will start from when we will announce it that is ready for first public beta testing.

[damn]

How do you auto submit when the sites submission URL's have those funny letters & numbers in an image verifications?

[lvalics]

There is a several way how we do it and we have selected around 10 SE.

[blacknight]

The feedback I've got from a couple of people who I let "play" with the beta has been very positive so far :)

[matrixx]

Well it's something we would consider - at $69 I'd introduce it one server at a time and not rush.

I have a couple of questions please..

1. Can I change how the SEO ranking is done (we have our own methond of keyword weighting and densities)

2. Is there an admin setup and permissions control so I can sell this to our resellers on the server or is it a single install is available for all thing?

Cheers,

Rob

[lvalics]

Good to know blacknight

matrixx
1. No, code is written by our way, no way to change it.
2. Admin can setup per domain ...
This mean that will show all domains and can put it on DEMO or FULL a domain. Also can setup a period to be FULL.

This mean that when user login, if he have DEMO or expired FULL, then he will see only STEP 1 tools, Meta Tag Generator, Spider Check, (X)HTML Validator, Tips & Tricks and the rest of the tools are disabled (can be see but no link on it).

If is FULL can see the rest of the tools.

PUBLIC BETA and preorders (on preorder we will give more discount) will be available next week.

[lvalics]

Hi all,

PUBLIC RELEASE is on our site.
http://www.web-hosting-control-panel-addons.com/product.php/Search-Engine-Optimization-Tools-for-Control-Panels/2/ is the products page on our site.

To get TEST version (for FREE) you need to click on orders and choose "Search Engine Optimizer for Direct Admin DEMO". Follow the order step.

Please download the archive file and then install it from the PLUGIN MANAGER section in Direct Admin. Do not forget to select "Install after upload" checkbox.
After installation, check your ADMIN area, you will see the link to SEO Tools at the EXTRA Features.

After is installed, in ADMIN area you will need the TRIAL key what you received in email and also you need to create 3 API keys for Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Also in ADMIN area you can change a domain from DEMO to FULL. This will change on user site to be accessible all tools; otherwise in DEMO/domain will be available only 4 tools.
Then login as user to see the tools and play with it.

If you decide to buy it, on order page at coupon code enter: PREORDER and you will get 30% discount. See also BULK prices on product page (http://www.web-hosting-control-panel-addons.com/orders/browse_products.php ). Pre-order is available only until 15 of march 2006.

[interfasys]

Suggestions:
-Freebsd version
-Let us chose which tool we want to offer
-Let us customize the analysis (matrixx's suggestion)
-Provide language files (didn't see a listing on the website)

[lvalics]

Thank you for the suggestions.

-Freebsd version

Can you tell us what is not working? We will guide you how to install and we can modify the installer.

-Let us chose which tool we want to offer

For the moment the ideea is on Basic/Advanced (Step1/Step2) Tools. We will think for the future how to consider your ideea.

-Let us customize the analysis (matrixx's suggestion)

OK ... this is possibble.

-Provide language files (didn't see a listing on the website)

There is based on language file, you can edit via SSH for the moment. We will think on a possibilities to change this from ADMIN and upload new language files.

[interfasys]

-Freebsd version

Can you tell us what is not working? We will guide you how to install and we can modify the installer.

I did not try. Your website stated that only Linux was tested.




-Provide language files (didn't see a listing on the website)

There is based on language file, you can edit via SSH for the moment. We will think on a possibilities to change this from ADMIN and upload new language files.
Sounds good!

[Chrysalis]

right behind interfasys here, if you want to sell a commercial product you should test it on all the platforms you wish to support.

Also any chance of some screenshots of the directadmin version?

[lvalics]

http://da.grafx.ro/ - for screenshoots.

Regarding OS to support, the difference can be only at install and tidy what is used, tidy is compiled for different OS. (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/#source)

The rest 100% work on all OS.
So this is what we test, if installer goes wrong and if is downloaded from our server the right tidy.