AS OF 1/1/98

THE TOP 100+ INTERNET SITES

WHERE A PUBLIC COMPANY'S LINKS
AND/OR CORRECT DATA SHOULD BE FOUND

ABSOLUTELY MOST VITAL SEARCH ENGINES & DIRECTORIES

The most important search aids are those found at either Netscape's search page or Microsoft Internet Explorer's search page, or both. Netscape and Microsoft both have top-tier "priority" search engines, and others they list as secondary (or even tertiary). These search engines change all the time, so check them out through these sites:
http://home.netscape.com/ Netscape's search page.
http://home.microsoft.com/ Microsoft Internet Explorer's search page.

As of 1/1/98 the top people were: Lycos (N1 E1), Yahoo (N1 E1), Excite (N1 E1), Infoseek (N1 E1), AOL NetFind (N2 E1), WebCrawler (N2 E2), LookSmart (N2 E2), Search.com (N2 E2), HotBot (N2 E2), Alta Vista (N3 E2), Electric Library (N3)

KEY: Netscape: N1 - priority, N2 - 2nd choice, N3 - 3rd choice; Explorer: E1 - priority, E2 - 2nd choice

Note that some of these search engines, themselves, plus Microsoft and Netscape, are starting to compete in the financial arena by offering services to investors!

STRATEGY FOR BEING FOUND

As your marketing people probably already know, each search engine works differently. Being found partly depends on your web pages having the right key words and META tags written in the right places for each search engine. Hopefully, your company will be found if a potential buyer looks for the product you sell. But will your company be found if a potential investor looks for it? What happens if he searches for your company name or your stock symbol? Confer with your web designer.

Some search engines and directories allow you to register not just one home page but several or all of your pages. You want to take advantage of this by registering your Investor Relations section separately, using descriptions aimed at investors rather than product customers.

If a search engine allows only limited pages to be registered, your marketing people may have already taken up all the available "slots"! (A good example is given, below, when we talk about Yahoo's "Company Reports".) Try e-mailing (or even phoning) a site's administrators to make a plea for treating your IR department as a separate site, since your IR pages have a different focus than the marketing pages.

As of 1/1/98, it is still true that a recently-registered site will tend to show up toward the top of the search engine listings. Therefore, some marketing people re-register their clients every week with each of the above important search engines! This may be overly ambitious for the investor relations department, but you do want to check the search engines periodically to make sure you are still being found. If your site goes off-line for just one second, you can bet this is the moment at which the search robot arrives and can't find you. You can get dropped from the list of sites the robot will scan henceforth.

Many search engines give higher priority to pages with numerous links to them on the theory that somebody has found them useful! Therefore, you want to be listed in the hundreds of business directories available, even if nobody has ever heard of them. This will give you a higher rating the next time the search engines scan those directories. Look for an inexpensive robotic link service to place you at as many of these as possible.

As for the more important financial sites which everybody has heard of, you want to look at these yourself to make sure your company profile is correct and that you're linked, if links are available. Request this link by hand rather than by robotic service. These important sites are listed, below.

GOVERNMENT SITE

http://www.sec.gov/ The SEC's EDGAR server - As of May 1996, EDGAR includes every publicly traded company in the U.S. You are there, but are you found easily? Some companies aren't. The EDGAR search engine leaves something to be desired. Check it out and drop them a note if investors can't find you easily. As of 1/1/98 the search page is at http://www.sec.gov/edaux/formlynx.htm

STOCK EXCHANGES

NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ all provide links to the companies listed on them.

http://www.amex.com/: American Stock Exchange (US) As of 1/1/98 look under "Listed Companies" at their site.
http://www.nyse.com/: New York Stock Exchange (US) - As of 1/1/98 look under "Listed Companies" at their site.
http://www.nasdaq.com/: NASDAQ Stock Exchange (US) (NMS & SMC stocks) As of 1/1/98 look under the results when you search by symbol.
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/: CBS Marketwatch Global Markets - Even though the NASDAQ exchange does not list the OTC Bulletin Board Stocks, DBC listed them specifically (as well as other stock exchange quotes). As of 1/1/98 no Company list or link anymore since CBS bought site. A powerful site, so check to see if it's been reinstated.
http://www.stockinfo.standardpoor.com/otc/bbs_a.htm: Standard & Poor's OTC Bulletin Board List
http://www.stockinfo.standardpoor.com/otc/dir_otc.htm: Standard & Poor's OTC Bulletin Board Co.-Sponsored Info.
http://www.dpo-council.org/: Pacific Stock Exchange - The SCOR Marketplace is specifically for SCOR and Reg.A companies.

FINANCIAL SITES WITH LINKS TO PUBLIC COMPANIES' WEB PAGES AND/OR PROVIDING PROFILE DATA ON YOUR COMPANY

http://www.hoovers.com/

Hoovers (Time-Warner) - At Hoovers look for the Corporate Website list. They have 2,817 public and private companies, here. Most of these are public. Hoovers also profiles virtually every publicly-traded company in the U.S. On the profile page is the link to your site, if they have it. This is perhaps the most-often used financial site on the Net, so make sure your information is correct and that you're linked.

http://www.yahoo.com/

Yahoo Directory. - This is the definitive directory of sources on the Net. It is used as much as, or more than, the Search Engines. Yahoo has put together a marvelous financial site with stock prices plus many links and information for every public company. Among other things, they combine press releases from PR Newswire, Business Wire, and Reuters for each company. They use Hoover's Company Profiles.
In addition to the main information on your company, check out your data at

http://biz.yahoo.com/news/ Yahoo Company News
http://quote.yahoo.com/ Yahoo Quotes

One of the first categories Yahoo set up at their site, years ago, was "Company Reports" . Not many public companies listed themselves under "Company Reports" yet, this is an important spot! Unfortunately, these days, Yahoo strictly limits the number of places your company can be listed, and your marketing people have probably gobbled up the available slots. Try contacting Yahoo and make a case for your IR dept. to be considered as a separate site, worthy of an additional link. Make sure your data is correct and make sure you're linked wherever possible.

http://www.marketguide.com/

Market Guide - Market Guide is in the business of selling in-depth financial data. However, at this site they give free basic company profiles for the over 8,000 publicly traded companies in their database. As with the similar Hoovers site, make sure they have your URL and that the data they have is correct.

http://www.stockhouse.com/public_directory.html

Stockhouse Online Journal - Public Co. List

http://www.gsionline.com/websites.htm

Global Securities Information - List of public companies. GSI is in the business of providing EDGAR data to companies and maintains this list as a public service. Are you linked?

http://www.investorguide.com/StockList.htm

InvestorGuide - Links to the companies and also links to current data, news and infor. about them.

http://thomsoninvest.net/

Thompson Investors Services - Powerful but reasonably-priced site aimed at individuals. They offer real-time quotes are a freebie! Offers corporate profiles. Should become a large player in the investment arena.

http://www.nsg-stockguide.com/

NSG - This site specializes in profiling the Nasdaq NMS and Small Cap Companies.

http://www.financials.com/

E-Line Financials

http://www.investorweb.com/company.htm

InvestorWeb - List of public companies. This site is sponsored by advertisers at InvestorWeb but it links to over 400 publicly traded companies, indicating for each one whether the site has No Investor Information, Limited Investor Information or Detailed Investor Information. Make sure you're linked correctly.

http://www.thewebinvestor.com/

Web Investor

http://www.investorlinks.com/

Investor Links

http://www.cnnfn.com/

CNNfn - Links to public companies. 1/1/98 Under huge reconstruction. List disappeared temporarily.

http://www.irnet.com/

Investor's Edge - When you get a stock price at this site, you also get additional information on the company. This too is free, and covers pretty much every public company in the US.

http://www.zacks.com/

Zacks Analyst Watch - Sometimes has list of public companies. Zacks Investment Research of Chicago is making its database of 5,000 equities available on the Internet and offers a free demo.

http://www.investorama.com/

Invest-O-Rama - Doug Gerlach's Page Public Co. List. Popular site.

http://www.reportgallery.com/index.htm

Annual Report Gallery - Links to the AR and also the home page of public companies. You do have to have an AR online for them to include you.

http://www.companiesonline.com/

Companies Online - Created by D&B in partnership with Lycos. Both public and private companies. Lists all the website addresses, if a company has more than one.

http://www.tfc.com/

The Financial Center Online - Growth stocks

http://www.metzger.com/

Metzger Associates - List of public companies

SITES OFFERING ORGANIZED LINKS TO DATA BY NAME OR STOCK SYMBOL.

These sites assemble financial data for pretty much every public company. Make sure your company shows up!

http://www.wsrn.com/: Wall Street Research Net
http://www.dailystocks.com/: Daily Stocks
http://www.stockwiz.com/: StockWiz
http://quote.yahoo.com/: Yahoo Quotes - (Note: this site is also listed under "FINANCIAL SITES WITH LINKS TO PUBLIC COMPANIES' WEB PAGES...", above.)
http://biz.yahoo.com/news/: Yahoo Company News - (Note: this site is also listed under "FINANCIAL SITES WITH LINKS TO PUBLIC COMPANIES' WEB PAGES...", above.)
http://www.financials.com/: E-Line Financials - (Note: this site is also listed under "FINANCIAL SITES WITH LINKS TO PUBLIC COMPANIES' WEB PAGES...", above.)
http://investorama.com/: Invest-O-Rama - (Note: this site is also listed under "FINANCIAL SITES WITH LINKS TO PUBLIC COMPANIES' WEB PAGES...", above.

FINANCIAL ASSOCIATIONS AND SPECIAL GROUPS WHERE YOU SHOULD BE LISTED IF YOU ARE A MEMBER

http://www.niri.org/: National Investor Relations Institute - List of public companies. If you are a NIRI member you can be linked for a nominal fee. This is one of the better lists of public companies on the Net, and we believe it will become quite popular.
http://www.better-investing.org/: The National Association of Investors Corporation - List of public companies. The NAIC has links to corporate members. I don't believe that if you are a corporate member you have to pay an extra fee. This is a powerful site so, if you're a member, make sure you're listed.
http://www.greenmoney.com/: The Green Money Guide - List of public companies. This site links to 50 or 60 publicly responsible corporations for people interested in socially responsible investing. If they list you but don't know about your website, tell them!
http://www.w100.com/: Big Business on the Web - List of public companies. This site has a list of the 100 biggest US corporations on the Web (the 100 biggest private companies). If you're big they probably know about you, but check it out.

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS, INDUSTRY FINANCIAL SITES & SPECIAL GROUPS WHERE YOU SHOULD BE LISTED IN THE DIRECTORY IF YOU ARE A MEMBER

There are so many industrial directories and trade groups that we cannot possibly list them all. Here are examples.

http://www.findlinks.com/index.html: FindLinks Industry Index - General.
http://www.industrylink.com/: Industry Links Index - General.
http://www.info-mine.com/: Info-Mine - Oil and gas, mining, and related.
http://www.FinanceHub.com/: Finance Hub - Has links to banks.
http://www.thomasregister.com/: Thomas Food Industry Register
http://www.thomasregister.com/: Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
http://mfginfo.com/: Manufacturing Information Net
http://www.cam.org/~pdumas/index.html: Sanitation Industry Hot Links Page
http://www.gennis.com/aglinks.html: Agricultural Links
http://www.techstocks.com/: Silicon Investor - High-Tech Companies
http://www.cyberstocks.com/: CyberStocks (by Hoovers)
http://www.woodfibre.com/paper/: Pulp and Paper Directory
http://www.woodfibre.com/wood/trade/: Wood World Industry Directory
http://www.neis.com/chemical_companies.html: Chemical Companies
http://pages.prodigy.com/NTNA27A/chemcomp.htm: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Chemical & Related
http://pages.prodigy.com/CasinoGaming/invest.htm: Gaming Industry
http://www.awma.org/index.html: Air and Waste Management Association
http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/wanderer.shtml Industrial (lo-tech), Control/Autom., Retail, Svcs. Etc.
http://www.mobileaudio.com/: Car Audio Directory, from Manufacture to Retail
http://www.hut.fi/~then/electronics/companies.html: Electronics & Related Industries.
More electronics & related are at: www.alp.cistron.nl/~nctnico/ www.webscope.com/elx/companies.html www.scruznet.com/~gcreager/welcome.htm
http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HUM-MOLGEN/biotech/companies/: Biomedical Companies

VITAL BUSINESS DIRECTORIES

http://www.directory.net/: Open Market - NOTICE: THIS HAS DISAPPEARED. Too bad! Open Market had a directory of commercial enterprises on the Net, both public and non-public. The oldest, largest, and most often used of all such sites on the Web! If you were registered there, to replace this you now need to be on a bunch of new Yellow Pages type sites.
http://mbook.com/: MarketBook - This is similar to the former OpenMarket site but smaller. May currently be the biggest such directory.
http://www/zurich.ibm.com/wwwcomdirectory.html: *.com Directory - This is a listing of web sites ending in "com/" This means a site such as "http://www.bigcompany.com/publicdata/" will not show up. You cannot, therefore, link directly your investor pages. But make sure your main URL is there, correctly.
http://netpart.com/company/: NetPartners Search of Company Websites - They get their list from the InterNic database; so this includes both public and private companies. This is the search engine we wish the InterNic offered. However, the search engine is not yet foolproof and some data is incorrect. Make sure your data is right.

NEWSWIRES

If you're paying for a newswire service, you may be missing out on some Web benefits, if they don't know about your site.

http://www.prnewswire.com/: PR Newswire - This company makes available, online, the press releases which it has also distributed via fax and other media, for publicly traded companies. They started with those customers subscribing to Company News On Call, but ultimately plan to include every company.
http://www.newswire.ca: Canada NewsWire - Affilliated with PR Newswire, and is a similar source for Canadian info.
http://www.hnt.com/bizwire: Business Wire If you are a BW customer, you have to pay extra to be on the Web. Check it out.
http://www.cfonews.com/: Corporate Financials Online - cfonews.com offers financial news for clients and has additional links to publicly traded companies.
http://www.cdn-news.com/index.html: Canadian Corporate Newsnet - Competitor to Canada NewsWire.

INVESTMENT MAGAZINES & RESEARCH REPORTS ONLINE

http://www.streetnet.com/: Buyside/StreetNet - Sometimes has list of publicly traded companies with data taken from various articles or buy recommendations. Some have corporate profiles, also. Sister-magazine to the paper "Buyside".
http://www.researchmag.com/: Research Magazine - Also a paper magazine. If you've paid for a Research report, get all the bang for your buck by having a link to your site at the Internet version.
http://www.tipnet.com/: Telescan Financial Services - Financial and corporate information for 77,000 stocks, mutual funds, bonds, options, futures, commodities and more.
http://www.zacks.com/: Zacks - See above, under "FINANCIAL SITES WITH LINKS..."

DRIP AND DPP SITES

If you offer a Direct Purchase Plan and/or a Dividend Reinvestment Plan, there are several sources of free publicity. There are three major sites where people go to see lists and order information on Direct Purchase Plans:

http://www.enrolldirect.com/: The ClearingHouse for Direct Purchase Plans - In addition to doing research on many companies, an investor can request enrollment materials from these companies and also from mutual funds offering direct purchase plans.
http://www.netstockdirect.com/: DirectINVESTOR at NetStock Direct. - It also has a service which allows investors to order DPP information from several companies by email, and has a list of companies offering DRIPs, with a check by those also offering DPPs.
WSC: The WSC DRIP/DPP page - We do not offer an information ordering service, but unlike the two sites, above, provide a direct link to all the DRIP/DPP companies.

Additional sites offering articles and lists of selected companies are:

http://www.dripinvestor.com/: The DRIP Investor - Advice and company information from Charles Carlson.
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~greiner/: John Greiner's Page - 1/1/97 Moved. No DRIPS now. Again in future?
http://www.cris.com/~Drpclub/: DRP Club - On-line, they have a long, comprehensive list of DRIPS.
http://www.iquest.net/~winvest/: WINVEST Investment Club - DRIP oriented club.
http://mk.ml.org/noload/: Mark Keller's Page

SMALL CAP SITES

If you are a small cap company there are lots of sites eager to give you free links and publicity Here are some of the main ones. For others, check out small company links at the WSC site .

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/data/gfa.htx?source=core/dbc/: DBC Online Exchange Page - Now CBS Market Watch
http://smallcapinvestor.com/: NASDAQ Small Cap Div. of FinancialWeb
http://www.financialweb.com/smallcaps/: Financial Web - Small cap stocks on the web and more.
http://www.snlnet.com/: SNL Securities - Info.. on pink banks & thrifts.
http://www.stockguide.com/intro.html: StockGuide - For OTC BBS they have quotes & data

ADDITIONAL SEARCH ENGINES & SITES

There are a burgeoning number of additional search engines and directories. Business listings and Yellow Pages are proliferating and ideally you want to be in all of them. One source says there are 1,000 such sites available now! Therefore, unless your budget allows for an employee, or a linking service, to spend hours and days at the task, you might look for a less expensive robotic link service to place you at as many of these as they can, easily. Remember, in another six months this group will have changed and doubled so you have to do this all over again!

Go to Yahoo! for a current list. Yahoo is at: http://www.yahoo.com/
As of 1/1/97 the link straight to the list of directories was: http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_Web/Web_Directories/
As of 1/1/97 the link straight to the list of search engines was: http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_Web/Search_Engines/
As of 1/1/97 the link straight to info. on people (robot and human) who will submit you numerous sites was: http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Announcement_Services/
As of 1/1/97 the link straight to info. on placement improvement was: http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Information_and_Documentation/Site_Announcement_and_Promotion/Search_Engine_Placement_Improvement/

This conludes our list of most important sites, revised and updated as of 1/1/98.