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INTERNET.COM TO HOST AFFILIATE SOLUTIONS 2001 AND SEARCH ENGINE STRATEGIES 2001 IN LONDON
(London, United Kingdom - 5th February, 2001)-internet.com (Nasdaq: INTM), the Internet Industry Portal, today announced that it will be offering two paid seminars in London this month - Affiliate Solutions Europe 2001 and Search Engine Strategies London 2001. Affiliate Solutions is the leading seminar for affiliate and performance marketing on the Internet and will address the topic of revenue sharing from different perspectives including the merchants and the solution providers. Search Engine Strategies, moderated by search engine expert Danny Sullivan, features presentations and panel discussions that cover all aspects of search engine-related promotion.Affiliate Solutions will be held at the May Fair Inter-Continental London Hotel on 14th February. This seminar will explore affiliate marketing, a type of performance-based Internet marketing pioneered by Amazon.com, and utilized by industry leaders BarnesandNoble.com, eToys, Travelocity, American Greetings, among others. Affiliate Solutions, which is hosted by internet.com (http://www.internet.com) and presented by Refer-It.com (http://www.refer-it.com), is sponsored by Commission Junction. The event will include panel discussions, workshops, exhibits and a networking reception. Conference keynotes include Murray Hennessy, CEO of buy.com UK, and Declan Dunn, CEO of ADNet International.
Search Engine Strategies will take place on 15th February at the May Fair Inter-Continental Hotel as well. Moderated by search engine expert Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Strategies will feature presentations and panel discussions that cover all aspects of search engine-related promotion, including: Back to the Basics (get up to speed with how search engines work), Search Engine Friendly Design (how to build a site from the ground up that pleases both search engines and your visitors), Buying Your Way In (ways to purchase placement or deeper listings with search engines), Dealing With Directories (representatives from human-powered search engines such as Yahoo, LookSmart, Lycos UK and the Open Directory discuss how they work), and Meet the Search Engines (representatives from various crawler-based search engines such as Google, AltaVista and Inktomi talk about how they operate). Join us at this unique one-day event and learn the ins-and-outs of search engine marketing from top experts in the field. This event will be sponsored by NetBooster.com and Webgravity.com, presented by SearchEngineWatch.com (http://www.searchenginewatch.com) and hosted by internet.com.
Anyone interested in either of these events should go to http://seminars.internet.com for more information and registration procedures, or call Pamela Burton, Director of Seminars, Europe at (0) 20-7868-2215. For sponsorship information, contact Frank Fazio, Jr., Sales Manager, at USA (203) 662-2976 or [email protected].
In addition to paid seminars, internet.com also runs numerous free InternetBreakfastForums throughout the United States and the world. For more information on these free InternetBreakfastForums, go to http://www.internetbreakfastforums.com.
About internet.com
internet.com Corporation (http://www.internet.com), the Internet Industry Portal, with offices in London, is headquartered in the United States in Darien, CT. It is a leading provider of global real-time news and information resources for Internet industry and Internet technology professionals, Web developers and experienced Internet users. internet.com owns and operates a network of 165 Web sites, over 300 e-mail newsletters, over 400 online discussion forums and more than 100 moderated e-mail discussion lists that generate over 250 million page views monthly. Total "views", which include Web site page views, e-mail newsletter views and e-mail discussion list views, are now over 300 million per month. According to NetRatings, internet.com has over 3.2 million unique users in the United States alone. Over 25% of internet.com's views are from outside of the U.S. internet.com's global presence includes editions for Arabia, Asia, Australia, Canada, China, Espanol, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding internet.com Corporation's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Prospectus dated June 25, 1999, Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year, when available.
For more information contact:
Mary Ann Boland
Marketing and Public Relations Associate
212-547-7939
[email protected]
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