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.

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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Bounce rates are one of the most useful metrics when monitoring both your website usability / conversion-rate performance, as well as evaluating the success of other internet marketing investments.

Partially attributed to the increasing mobile accessibility of search, social networking sharing and link shortening services; growing numbers of website visitors are clicking links that bypass home pages and lead directly to product or service pages, blog posts and news articles.

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Internet marketing has been shown to offer small and medium scale businesses the highest returns on investment when compared to television, radio, events, sponsorship and direct mail marketing methods.

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The popular location-based recommendation and reviews service Qype has announced the acquisition of Cooldeals.de a Munich based digital coupon deals service.

Qype is currently the largest user-contributed local review site in Europe, beating Yelp and others, in the battle to build a review site that has a loyal user-base and enough reviews to make the service worthwhile.

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