Thursday, February 14, 2002 Ask Jeeves Site Submit Launched (in Beta), Ineedhits.com Exclusive Partner Ask Jeeves own paid inclusion program, Site Submit was launched in Beta today with their exclusive partner, ineedhits.com Site Submit (Beta) went live on Ask Jeeves web site in the US on the 14th of February, 2002 (Valentine's Day). Ask Jeeves is ineedhits.com's latest partner in delivering Paid Inclusion to Ask.com and Teoma.com. "We are extremely happy about this partnership, as the web property Ask.com is rated as one of the top Search Engines on the Internet, with Ask Jeeves having just acquired Teoma", said Co-CEO, Clay Cook. Site Submit helps Webmasters and Web Site Owners by providing fast guaranteed inclusion into the search engine index used on Ask.com and Teoma.com ("Search Engine Database"). The great feature of Site Submit, is that you can sign up to the program from Ask Jeeves (and very soon at the Teoma Search Engine), with the actual Site Submit URL being http://ask.ineedhits.com. Site Submit gives Web Site Owners the ability to see how quickly their web pages are added and how often their content gets refreshed. Web Site Owners can submit up to 1000 different URLs for inclusion and be notified when they are added. The one-time fee includes Customer Support provided by ineedhits.com, guaranteed inclusion in a database that powers search results by millions of users per month (used by Ask.com and Teoma.com) and web site content that is refreshed on a weekly basis. Customers who sign up during the Beta period not only receive the program benefits, but a 15-month subscription period (instead of 12 months), and at the current price for each domain URL you sign up within your account. During the Beta period we aim to ensure that Customers receive minimal interruption with their account as possible and thank customers for their patience in advance. Ask Jeeves is successful with attracting every day users, with it's simple easy to use database where users type in their questions to receive the answer they are looking for. With Ask Jeeves and Teoma Site Submit the content of the database and ultimately answers, will continue to be up-to-date and relevant. ineedhits.com is also geared to provide the customer support to the program, as it currently does with all services the company offers. With currently over 500 000 webmasters with ineedhits.com, it is a clear testament to our experience in our niche area and our relationships with our customers and users. "We are pleased that ineedhits.com was chosen to deliver the program exclusively for the Ask.com and the new Teoma site. Our streamlined approach to our technological delivery within a rapid development environment is professional and at a high standard. We provide a total solution to the Search Engine partner that is also competitively cost effective and 'expertise' orientated. ineedhits.com has the ability to become 'the' one-stop provider of Paid Inclusion programs." said Co-CEO, Rachel O'Brien. About Paid Inclusion Paid Inclusion is now quite an established service with the majority of Search Engines providing this service today on the Internet. In conducting surveys of our client base over the past six years, ineedhits.com has found that customers understand the importance of coming to ineedhits.com to have their web site optimized according to their theme. What customers don't realize until they come to us, is that Paid Inclusion has nothing to do with high rankings, Paid Inclusion is about providing a fast guaranteed gateway into a Search Engine and having your web site present within a Search Engine's database. To gain a better ranking within the database, customers need to make their sites Search Engine friendly. Optimizing your web site ethically and with the expertise is a strong component of how well a site performs once your web site is in the Search Engines and presented to users. You can usually see a site that performs well generally has been optimized, however when a site performs lower and usually presents below the first 30 web site's listed, it has generally not been optimized. At end of the day, fast, effective promotion of your web site involves Optimization and Paid Inclusion combined. About ineedhits.com ineedhits.com was created in line with our global focus to help web site owners increase their traffic, promote their web site effectively and provide technical, quality web site enhancement services. We also help increase the quantity and quality of databases of many Major Search Engines on the web. We offer various low cost methods of promoting web sites to the whole world, with a combination of technical and advertising services.