After much waiting, the second 2007 Google PageRank Update is finally in progress! If you go to our multiple datacenter PageRank tool and enter your website URL, you will see that the datacentres are reporting varied PageRank values, indicative that a PageRank export has just taken place.

With the start of January 2007 seeing the last PR update, it has been expected that April would result in the next update. True to form, albeit nearly into May, the update has occurred in April, and shows that Google is still operating almost quarterly updates.

What new PageRank values have your websites received?

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As our previous post notes, we are still predicting a Google PageRank Update in April 2007, however with it now being mid-April, and all Google datacentres are still reporting similar PR values, there’s no sign of an impending update. As with all things unpredicatably ‘Internet’ we may be proved wrong, however, and the update could be in May 2007 instead.

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Since the publication of our recent article about VoIP for small businesses, we have discovered another good value (in fact free) VoIP provider that offers free local, national and quite a lot of international outbound calls, with no setup or monthly fees. The call provider is VoipCheapCom and it would be a perfect outbound complement to using SkypeIn for your inbound calls.

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For a small business, telephony costs can represent a sizable proportion of total variable costs. Consequently it makes sense to try and reduce your phone bill in any means possible. VoIP (or voice-over internet-protocol) is a method that is becoming increasingly popular by small business owners and employees to communicate on the phone, but via the Internet instead of a normal landline. All you need is the simple and free to install software and a high quality headset with a boom microphone ideally. According to a survey released by BT on the 27th March 2007,  over 25% of SME’s are currently utilising VoIP, and this is set to rise to 48% over the coming year! This has the potential to save businesses a fortune, read on to find out how.

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If you run a small business then I’m sure you’re aware of all the day-to-day tasks that eat into your time and hence your bottom line. A 5-minute email here, a 10 minute application form there, before you know it these tasks mount up and you’re spending a third of your time on administrative tasks. If you were in a large organisation then it is likely that you would delegate to an employee, but why spare that expense when you can delegate some of these tasks to your computer, and they don’t even argue back!
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Webmasters who depend on Google PageRank for determining how much they can charge for people to place a link on their website hold drawn breath this month. With the last major update in Toolbar PageRank (PR) being in January 2007, we are about due the next one - hopefully within three to four weeks. Some commentators are guessing that the update is already underway but in our opinion we still have another few weeks to go. All Google datacentres are still reporting similar PageRank values, suggesting that the update hasn’t yet started.

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One of the major productivity-harming features of email is ‘spam’ – basically unsolicited bulk email that comes in a variety of forms on a scale of just annoying to downright disgusting. Unfortunately in this day and age it seems that no matter how well you hide your email address from spammers, over time you will likely be receiving a large number of spam emails. Most businesses also list their email address on their website, which is a sure-fire way to increase your spam by an exponential amount! Prevention is better than cure… Read the rest of this entry »

From page impressions to hits to unique visitors, looking at the visitor statistics for your website can present a baffling array of numbers, statistics and graphs. It is quite worthwhile taking the time to make sense of the stats however, as they can be used for a variety of useful purposes. This short article will help you find out just what gems of information your website statistics are harbouring. Read the rest of this entry »

We are currently working on an innovative new business directory for the UK called UKBizListings.co.uk which will be launched in August of 2007. The specific details of the project are still under wraps but the UK business directory will provide a comprehensive and search-engine friendly listing for businesses to advertise in a variety of forms. More details will be published closer to the launch date, but feel free to check the site regularly for updates as things develop.

PilotZone.co.uk is also under development and will provide a community portal and resource-intense site for both professional and general aviation pilots together with aviation enthusiasts. The portal will house a flying school and airfield directory, airfield reviews, pilot shop and a variety of other features. This again is due for launch in August.

Well surprise surprise, the corporate giant that is Google is unveiling free tools at a rate of knots. In addition to the features useful for our personal lives such as Gmail, Book search and finding your house on Google Earth, Google has also launched a variety of free tools which can potentially be very useful for small businesses. Read the rest of this entry »