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14/05/01

METAMEND SEO SOLUTION GAINS U.S. DISTRIBUTION

Keywords: Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Web Hosting, ASP News, Technology, E-commerce, SOHO, Retail News

(Victoria, British Columbia) Metamend announced today it has signed a distribution agreement with At Your e-Service, to package and distribute Metamend's Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services through volume sales channels including computer retail stores, catalog resellers and on-line resellers.

Recognizing that most small to medium-sized businesses and small/home offices (SOHO's) make the majority of their technology purchases through these channels, At Your e-Service assembles and publishes customized categories of web-based services and applications to fit each reseller's target customers. Metamend's automated web site marketing products are a perfect fit for these sales channels because they are an easy add-on sales to popular web development tools.

Metamend web site marketing services are featured in a 2-page spread in the Programmer's Paradise catalog mailed at the beginning of May to hundreds of thousands of customers. Metamend services can also be ordered through the Programmer's Paradise web site. In June, Metamend services will be offered through two nationwide U.S. retail chains, Micro Center and Fry's Electronics. Each chain has 18 superstores and through a combination of the two large volume technology retailers, Metamend will be offered throughout most of the primary and secondary U.S. markets.

Customers who purchase Metamend services through these channels will receive 3 months of web site marketing services at special introductory pricing. This provides an incentive for the customer to make the buying decision when they are in the store or browsing through the catalog.

At Your e-Service President and CEO Diane Lowe Archer commented on the benefit the agreement brings to both parties. "We are pleased that Metamend will be part of our program, which gives resellers the opportunity to offer new options to their customers that are not available through traditional software. Putting Metamend in front of millions of customers looking for technology
solutions will help Metamend acquire new customers more quickly."

Metamend CEO, Richard Zwicky, explained how the agreement will assist his company build brand recognition for its SEO products. "Metamend is pleased to participate in the At Your e-Service program and is looking forward to the exposure this sales channel brings. Our automated SEO technology is turning heads throughout the Internet industry and we are thrilled to have this opportunity to open a new, direct to end-user channel, which meets the needs of many small and home based business operators."

At Your E-Service is the first and only single source of distribution and promotion through traditional and on-line channels for the billion dollar Web-based services and applications market. At Your e-Service delivers Web-based applications to the mainstream business market by leveraging long-standing reseller relationships and utilizing a proficient team of channel veterans that has generated over $1 billion in channel sell-through. At Your e-Service is a division of Frontline Now!, founded in 1997. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.atyoureservice.com/ or call 408-871-4848.

Metamend is a search engine optimization company developing technology and solutions to enhance the marketing and promotion of web sites. It's innovative automated SEO solutions are in use by individual site owners, Web Hosting firms and industry leading technology partners.

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