Go Daddy Partners with Google to Offer Customers Web Management Tools

Integrates Google Webmaster Tools to Help Customers Make Their Sites More Google-Friendly

GoDaddy.com is working with Google Inc. as the pilot partner for a new effort to seamlessly integrate Google™ Webmaster Tools into customers’ Web hosting accounts.

With Google Webmaster Tools, Go Daddy users are now able to see how Google views their site, diagnose problems and share information with Google in order to improve their site’s visibility in search results. This service, combined with Go Daddy’s Sitemap Editor, provides a free and easy way for Web site owners to manage and improve traffic to their site.

“When Google approached us about incorporating their product into our hosting accounts, it was an easy decision,” said GoDaddy.com CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “Our customers are always looking for simple ways to make their sites easier to find and attract new visitors. Thanks to these easy-to-use tools, customers can quickly tap this valuable Webmaster resource without having to be technical wizards.”

Go Daddy hosting customers are now able to easily add and verify their Web sites for use with Google Webmaster Tools. Once set up, Go Daddy will automatically submit sitemaps to Google on behalf of its customers. Sitemaps inform Google about new Web pages or updates to a customer’s site and help to increase their coverage of Web pages in Google’s index.

“Go Daddy is a leading innovator in the Web hosting space and, through our partnership, we hope to educate more Webmasters on how to effectively make their site more search engine-friendly,” said Bill Brougher, Google Group Product Manager. “Google Webmaster Tools was designed as a useful resource for site owners to get up-to-date information on how their site is performing. This partnership ultimately helps Google to improve the Web by increasing the comprehensiveness and freshness of the content people seek.”

All Go Daddy hosting accounts feature unparalleled 24×7 Customer Support, world-class data centers and a guaranteed uptime of 99.9%. In addition, customers can take advantage of Go Daddy Hosting Connection, which allows customers to install a variety of applications and provide comments about their experiences for other potential users to see.

For more information about Go Daddy’s Web hosting, please visit: http://www.GoDaddy.com/WebHosting.

About The Go Daddy Group, Inc.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration and Web site hosting services, as well as a broad array of on-demand and other services. The Go Daddy Group, Inc., has more than 24 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every 1.3 seconds. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar, according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world’s largest hostname provider, according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2006, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info.

Contacts

The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
Nick Fuller, Communications Mgr., 480-505-8800, x4435
PR {at} GoDaddy(.)com