Provider of hosting and managed services, Verio Inc., today launched its suite of do-it-yourself tools which offer consultative web design and online marketing services to improve traffic and exposure for businesses. The tools include Search Engine Submission and online marketing campaigns to help reach targeted customers

August 3, 2006 – (TopHosts News Brief) – Verio Inc., today announced the release of its new set of do it yourself marketing tools and create-it-for-me website design and marketing services to build and market Websites for businesses.

Verio conducted a survey that confirmed the challenges facing small and midmarket businesses; namely, they are the lack of time to regularly update site content, a need to redesign sites, lack of traffic to websites, and limited resources available to maintain sites. The survey also confirmed that less than half of companies are actively marketing their sites, and that many SMBs may not fully understand the need to actively market their site in order to be readily found online.

Verio’s new Marketing Tools are free for a limited time to all Web hosting customers. The Tools include a set of user-friendly, do it yourself tools to enhance websites’ brand awareness online, drive traffic to sites and improve visibility among targeted customers. These tools also allow small businesses to easily submit their URL to over 100 of the top search engines and to carry out search engine optimization to ensure effective placement on sites such as Google and Yahoo. It also allows businesses to create, place and track online banner advertising, with a guaranteed number of impressions to their target audience.

The full suite of Verio Marketing Tools can be found at www.verio.com/build-market.