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Leading E-Tailer Selects WebSideStory's HitBox Analytics

FurnitureFind.com, a leading online furniture retailer, has selected WebSideStory's outsourced Web analytics service to ensure that its Web site and its marketing programs are fully optimized to achieve maximum sales conversions this holiday season, WebSideStory announced.

"We are ready to go," FurnitureFind.com President Pamela Durkin said. "This will definitely be our best holiday ever. HitBox has proved to be an outstanding investment. It gives us insight we never had before and allows us to better understand what works and what doesn't."

HitBox is WebSideStory's flagship product and the standard for online marketing analytics and optimization. FurnitureFind.com is using the outsourced service to optimize three critical areas:

• Optimize Site Navigation -- Using multiple reports, including HitBox's link analysis feature, FurnitureFind.com has eliminated unnecessary links and cleared bottlenecks to ensure that customers are able to find what they want and enter the purchase process as easily as possible.
• Optimized Keyword Program -- Using HitBox, FurnitureFind.com has narrowed its list of paid keywords to focus on those that deliver the most traffic and sales.
• Optimized Affiliate Banners -- FurnitureFind.com is currently using HitBox to test various affiliate banners and see which ones deliver the best conversion rates.

Easy to implement and easy to use, HitBox is the industry's most comprehensive outsourced Web analytics service, delivering actionable information about online visitors and customers. Some of the largest companies in the world use HitBox services to measure marketing ROI, improve browse-to-buy ratios, optimize merchandising strategies and pinpoint online-revenue enhancing opportunities. HitBox requires no hardware or software investment, and can be implemented within days. All the information is collected in real-time and made available on demand through a convenient Web-browser interface.

"One of the most important things an e-tailer can do is make sure they are properly optimized for the holiday season," said Rand Schulman, chief marketing officer for WebSideStory. "We are proud to help fuel FurnitureFind.com's success. We wish them a prosperous holiday and new year."

For more information about WebSideStory and HitBox, visit www.websidestory.com/ or call (888) 844-8269.