Go2Net's Authorize.Net Offers Search Engine Submission Services For eBusinesses With GoSubmit.Net
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PROVO, Utah, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Authorize.Net Corporation,
(http://www.authorize.net/), a leading payment authorization service for
online businesses, today announced the availability of GoSubmit.Net, an
innovative search engine submission technology powered by ProBoost(TM)
developed to help online merchants successfully launch their respective
eBusinesses. Authorize.Net is a part of the Go2Net Network (NASDAQ:GNET),
(http://www.go2net.com/), and provides payment processing solutions for more
than 70,000 online merchants.
Search engines continue to be one of the most successful ways to promote
and announce new Web sites. With Authorize.Net's GoSubmit.Net service, online
merchants can now have their site automatically submitted to more than
1,500 search engines. Additionally, unlike most search engine submission
providers, GoSubmit.Net provides a technology that continuously manages a Web
site's presence on the search engines, keeping pace with search engine's
changes in methodology for listing search results. GoSubmit.Net incorporates
these changes and resubmits Web sites on a monthly basis, to help maximize the
site's presence and ranking in the search results.
GoSubmit.Net services also provide three additional search engine tools:
Link Popularity, which provides 200 quality links to a site; a meta tag
generator, for improved rankings, which systematically analyzes the Web site
and generates a list of suggested meta tags that are optimum for each site;
and, an online chat support system, in which merchants can discuss the latest
search engine optimization techniques with experts.
The launch of GoSubmit.Net follows a recent survey of Authorize.Net
merchants, in which a high percentage of the responding merchants strongly
recommended that Authorize.Net offer a search engine submission service. "We
view GoSubmit.Net as an opportunity to offer our customers a value-added
service that helps them launch, promote and grow their eBusiness," said
Roy Banks, Authorize.Net executive vice president of strategic development.
About Authorize.Net Corporation
Founded in 1996 and acquired by Go2Net, Inc. in July 1999, Authorize.Net
Corporation is the preferred payment-processing service for e-commerce,
providing secure, reliable and easy-to-use payment solutions that make the
Internet a new revenue opportunity for businesses of all sizes. These tools
also provide a smarter, faster, more economical method of transaction
processing for retail-based storefronts and the services industry.
Authorize.Net has grown to include more than 70,000 clients, using a network
of more than 800 ISOs and acquiring banks to resell its products and services.
For more information on Authorize.Net, visit (http://www.authorize.net/).
About Go2Net, Inc.
Go2Net (http://www.go2net.com/) is one of the Internet's leading networks,
providing consumer services, business services, and enabling services. The
company offers through the World Wide Web a network of branded properties and
aggregated content in the categories of search and directory, personal
finance, multi-player games, small business services and e-commerce solutions.
The company also develops Internet technologies for its own network and for
license to strategic partners. The Go2Net Network is home to many of the
Internet's leading vertical destinations, including: MetaCrawler, Silicon
Investor, the HyperMart Network, PlaySite, Dogpile, and 100Hot.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks
and uncertainties, including those relating to the company's ability to grow
its user and advertiser base. Actual results may differ materially from the
results predicted and reported results should not be considered as an
indication of future performance. The potential risks and uncertainties
include, among others, the company's limited operating history, the
competitive environment in which the company competes, the early stage of the
Web as an advertising and electronic commerce medium, the company's dependence
on advertising, sponsorship and commerce revenues, the company's dependence on
strategic relationships to drive traffic to its Web sites, consumer acceptance
of the company's new products and services, the company's ability to develop
and integrate new technologies and services into its existing services and
into new platforms, such as broadband, and the increased use of the Web for
commerce. More information about the potential factors that could affect the
company's business and financial results is included in the company's Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 1999, and Form 10-Q for
the quarters ended December 31, 1999 and March 31, 2000, which are on file
with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
CONTACT: Kendra M. Romley, Public Relations Manager of Go2Net, Inc.,
415-979-1402, or kendrar@go2net.com.
SOURCE Go2Net, Inc.
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/CONTACT: Kendra M. Romley, Public Relations Manager of Go2Net, Inc.,
415-979-1402, or kendrar@go2net.com/
/Web site: authorize.net
/Web site: go2net.com
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