Highly recommend project management tool called teambox  which is an online service in the cloud (you can access it anywhere even on your iphone)  for managing all kinds of marketing projects / content writing / To-do lists and time management.

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Recommending the online invoicing and accounting software made by Edinburgh-based FreeAgent.

Along with invoices and estimates, FreeAgent can handle timesheets, expenses and if you choose to import and annotate bank statements you can complete your HRMC TAX return and submit it online.

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Learn more about Google’s latest changes, including a left-hand panel with powerful tools that will make it easier to find what you are looking for.

A video from Matt Cutts at Google’s search quality team. He explains how frequently page rank updates occur and how often you will see updated values in the pagerank toolbar.
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The Farmer/Panda update is arguably the largest algorithmic change Google have implemented in the last 10 years and is reported to have affected the rankings of over 16% of websites on the internet. In many cases this has seen smaller, higher quality sites rise in the rankings whilst websites with thin or scraped content have lost ground in many areas.

Some are saying this  is a great win for smaller businesses struggling to compete in search, others are more cautious and suggest it was an excellent PR move after the recent poor publicity around Google search quality and their slow loss of US market share to the Bing / Yahoo Search network.

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