SAN DIEGO – July 18^th, 2006 – Most business owners understand that an effective website is an essential tool for success. What they may not realize is that the world’s best website isn’t much help if it doesn’t show customers where your business is located.

Introducing Aplus.Net’s new Business Locator Tool, a free add-on that provides websites with an interactive and easy-to-use map to actual store locations. It’s a simple but effective way to help ensure that consumers aren’t lost at the final and most important stage of the buying process.

“Aplus.Net is always looking for ways to improve the effectiveness of our customers’ websites. Our Business Locator Tool fulfills this commitment by giving visitors an easily accessible, highly visible map to their store location,” says Ivan Vachovsky, CEO and President of Aplus.Net. “For those business owners whose websites are the online representatives of their actual brick-and-mortar store, this is an essential tool. After all, customers need to know how to find you — if they can’t, your efforts in building a successful website are in vain. Don’t assume that they’ll search for your location; they’re just as likely to move on to the competition’s website.”

Aplus.Net’s Business Locator Tool maps are high-quality and user-friendly, provided by Google’s popular mapping function. The tool also utilizes convenient drag-and-drop functionality, so even the least computer-savvy users can utilize it without dealing with confusing HTML code procedures. In addition, an easy-to-use tutorial on Aplus.Net’s Knowledge Base website walks users through the simple steps needed to access the feature. Users can configure the size, look and feel of the map to match their website’s style; they can even include a “tooltip” to help visitors use the map.

The Business Locator Tool works for locations within the United States and requires an active Google API key (offered free by Google, and automatically generated by the Business Locator Tool on behalf of the end user). The tool is free with purchase of Aplus.Net’s Unix and Windows hosting plans, and can be used for up to 10 domain names. To learn more, visit www.aplus.net.

About Aplus.Net
A recognized industry leader in web services since the Internet's commercial start in 1995, Aplus.Net is one of the top ten privately held hosting companies in the United States. Specializing in helping small businesses build a customer base via the Internet, Aplus.Net offers award-winning services that include web hosting and design, dedicated servers, online marketing, e-commerce, domain name registration, and much more. Aplus.Net has been awarded many honors for excellence, including the prestigious CNET Editors' Choice Award, and has been featured in top U.S. business publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Black Enterprise and PC Magazine. For more information about Aplus.Net, please visit www.aplus.net. 

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Nathan Denny
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