Popular Canadian Local Search Portal Foundlocally com Now Has Free `Logos and Links`

Released on = April 4, 2007, 10:12 am

Press Release Author = FoundLocally.com Media Inc

Industry = Marketing

Press Release Summary = Advertiser support eanbles removal of the $200 annual cost
for 'Logos & Links' for the 100,000 businesses and community groups in the web
site's community directories.

Press Release Body = Calgary, AB April 4, 2007 -- http://www.FoundLocally.com Media
Inc. has just launched a new look for its 24 community information portals servicing
major cities and communities across Canada. The FoundLocally sites attract more than
10 million visitors a year, with enough advertiser support to remove the $200 annual
cost for 'Logos & Links' for the 100,000 businesses and community groups in the web
site's community directories.

The new look of the website is cleaner, incorporating a number of "Web 2.0"
elements, including more white space, use of icons, simpler navigation and searches,
and increased user interactivity. More features will be released in the coming weeks
and months.

FoundLocally's portal sites provide comprehensive community information covering
travel, entertainment, shopping, neighborhoods, sports, education and government.
Site visitors can browse about a thousand pages including popular resources like
weekly movie show times, ski reports, and golf courses listings. Its trip-planning
resources are used by both business and leisure travelers.

Businesses add themselves to each community's business directory, where visitors can
search for businesses by name, category, attributes or location. FoundLocally.com is
a popular marketing tool for small businesses run from a home phone or cell phone,
and therefore excluded from the phone directory, and those without a web site. Once
registered, businesses can post jobs, events, special offers and news announcements
as part of their listings. With the now-free 'Logos & Links', businesses can improve
their Google T PageRank by posting multiple items as part of their FoundLocally.com
listings. Businesses can add themselves to www.FoundLocally.com by selecting their
community, and clicking on "Free Listings."

Communities now covered by the portal include: Victoria, Greater Vancouver, Fraser
Valley, Okanagan-Shuswap, Banff & The Rockies, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina,
Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Sault Ste Marie, Sudbury, Barrie-Muskoka, Niagara Falls,
Hamilton, Oakville, Mississauga, Ottawa-Gatineau, Fredericton, Charlottetown,
Halifax, and St John's.

About FoundLocally.com

FoundLocally.com Media Inc.is a Calgary-based company that also runs
http://www.transcanadahighway.com (about travel along the world's longest highway),
and http://www.movingincanada.com (about relocations & real estate). The
FoundLocally web sites are represented nationally by http://247realmedia.ca/ [24/7
RealMedia], the nation's largest interactive ad agency.

For more information contact Mark Ruthenberg, FoundLocally's General Manager at
(403) 245-2194 or by email at mark@FoundLocally.com or Marcio Eusebio, Business
Development Coordinator, 24/7 RealMedia Inc. 416-966-2542 x300 or by e-mail at
marcio.eusebio@247realmedia.ca


Web Site = http://www.FoundLocally.com Media Inc.

Contact Details = 1600-144-4th Avenue SW
Calgary, AB Canada T2P 3N4
t: 1-403-245-2194
f:1-403-237-5551

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