ATLANTA -- March 23, 2005 -- Interland (Nasdaq:INLD), a leading provider of online sales and marketing services for small and medium-sized businesses, is proud to announce its online services were key in helping online magazine HealthNewsDigest.com (www.healthnewsdigest.com) reach a milestone of 10 million subscribers.
Since 1999 when Michael McCurdy founded HealthNewsDigest.com, the company has grown to become one of the most widely syndicated sources of health care information on the Internet. Today it is the #1 rated health channel on AvantGo and produces more than 30 million impressions a month to individuals seeking the latest in health news.
According to McCurdy, Interland has been an invaluable member of his team in recent years. "Prior to Interland, I had been through a series of online service providers," says McCurdy, who has been an Interland client for nearly three years now. "Many providers were just unreliable, and some were not able to handle our site and the traffic we generated, so they asked us to leave. Right now I am the most confident I have ever been in the stability of our website and our ability to market the site online."
That confidence is critical to McCurdy because each Monday morning, HealthNewsDigest.com publishes 40-50 new stories covering breaking news, features on health, science and the environment, interviews with leaders in these fields and commentaries. In total, the site has now published more than 13,000 stories on health care.
This breadth of information, combined with Interland's powerful online marketing distribution tools, has given HealthNewsDigest.com access to some of the largest names in health care, politics and beyond. For example, recently the site has featured exclusive interviews and articles with the likes of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Guiliani, CBS News Saturday Early Show Co-Host Gretchen Carlson and Actor Rob Lowe.
This depth of content and continuous flow of information is one of the reasons, McCurdy says, the site gains about 3,500 new subscribers a month and now has syndication agreements with more than 3,000 health-related web sites.
Syndicated through a relationship with CBSMarketWatch (now owned by Dow Jones), HealthNewsDigest.com content is frequently featured on sites such as Siemens Medical Solutions USA, eDiets.com, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, NewVitality.com and CosmeticSurgery.com. In addition, more than 1,000 members of the press have been given permission to publish information directly from the site. This frequently results in the site's content appearing in media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping, CNN, ABC and CBS.
"We're proud to have HealthNewsDigest.com as a customer," says Denise Grey, vice president of sales, marketing and business development for Interland. "Michael is the perfect example of what an entrepreneur can do today when you take a great idea and marry it with the right online tools and services. Everyday Interland customers like HealthNewsDigest.com are helping to rewrite the rules with regard to online business success, and we are more than happy to help them."
About Interland
Interland, Inc. (Nasdaq:INLD) is a leading online services and Web hosting company dedicated to helping small and medium-sized businesses achieve success by providing the knowledge, services and tools to build, manage and promote businesses online. Interland offers a wide selection of online sales and marketing services, including standardized Web hosting, eCommerce, application hosting, and Web site development, e-marketing and optimization tools. For more information about Interland, please visit www.interland.com, email moreinfo@interland.com or call 1-800-336-9883.
