1&1 Marketing Center Increases Website Traffic for Small Businesses

PHILADELPHIA – 1&1 Internet, Inc. (1&1), the world’s largest Web-hosting company, today announced that it is offering a new service called the 1&1 Marketing Center -- designed specifically for small- and medium-size businesses. Included in the Marketing Center are special, promotional  offers for 1&1 customers to sign up for Google AdWords™ and Microsoft adCenter.1&1 customers can take advantage of these offers  to promote their businesses, to drive search engine traffic to their Web sites and to acquire new customers for their business. Paid search marketing enables businesses to target their ads to the places, prospects and times they want as well as selecting keywords that relate to their business to set-up an ad almost instantly. 

Additionally, the Marketing Center provides 1&1 customers with promotional offers from Citysearch, the leading local advertising resource that provides the most up-to-date information on local businesses -- from restaurants and retail to travel and professional services.  1&1 customers will receive a Citysearch pay for performance voucher, valued between $25 and $100, to help them drive traffic to their Web site and expand their online branding and sales.  1&1 customers will also have their Citysearch monthly listing fee waived for the first 12 months after signing up with Citysearch. 

“We believe these tools and offers provided to 1&1 customers to try out Google AdWords, Citysearch and Microsoft adCenter will drive visitors to their Web sites and enable these businesses to compete on a local, national, if not international, level,” said Andreas Gauger, Chairman of 1&1 Internet. “Driving traffic to their Web site is the life’s blood for most small- and medium-size businesses today.” 

Also, the 1&1 Marketing Center provides access to Google Webmaster™ tools that enables 1&1 customers to create their site map, a Web developer tool, which enables easy discovery of all the information on their site with Google search. Sitemaps is a free Web developer tool that provides Google with up-to-date information to crawl Web sites faster and more efficiently, ultimately improving search experience of visitors to their site.

As an added Marketing Center bonus, 1&1 will offer the new James Martell book “Online Success for Non-Techies” that helps customers to quickly and easily develop a successful Web site for their business, hobby or profession as well as providing useful tips on building binding customer relationships. 

The Marketing Center feature is available for all Shared Hosting, eShops and Server packages. Value of the vouchers depends on the packages and services selected.
 
About 1&1 Internet Inc.

1&1 Internet Inc. (www.1and1.com) is a subsidiary of United Internet, a profitable public company with 6,000 employees and a market cap of $4 billion. 1&1 was established in 1992 and hosts more than 7 million domain names, while 37,000 servers run on the company’s four state-of-the-art data centers. 1&1’s global community is over 6 million customer contracts strong. The company’s U.S. headquarters is located in Chesterbrook, PA. For more information, please contact the company at www.1and1.com or 1-877-461-2631.