Take the UFindUs challenge!

I’m not really the betting sort but I had a bit of a bet with a friend of mine who was pouring cold water over the effectiveness of search engines, which meant that in effect the UFindUs directory and our customer Rapidsites would struggle to get found on the likes of Google.   Straight away I asked him for some trades that might be found on the directory. Then he decided on 4 locations which were from all over the country. I laughed when we got the results, more from the look on his face than anything else. Roofer in Edinburgh showed a UFindUs result in 3^rd position, joiner in York showed in positions 1,2,3 and 4, plumber in Oxford showed as positions 6 and 8 and window cleaner in Lancaster showed 3,4,5 and 8. The links we found were either to one of our Rapidsites or to a UFindUs directory. Not only a simple and yet effective way to prove a point but now I’m a fiver richer and he’s invested £5 in becoming a little bit wiser. It just goes to show if you know what you are doing the internet is a great place to get found and make money!  Graham Armstrong – UFindUs Ltd

Easyspace: 3rd most reliable web host in April

Easyspace, the sister company to UFindUs that provides all our hosting have been named as one of the top 3 most reliable web hosts for April 2007 by Netcraft. According to Netcraft “The three leaders each had a perfect month, with no downtime and no failed requests for their corporate sites during an entire month of monitoring from eight locations around the globe.”  “This marks the first time that Easyspace have been the most reliable host in our monthly performance tracking.” Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of fifty leading hosting providers’ sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.

UFindUs Rapidsite Updates

Work is continuing apace to get the new updated UFindUs Rapidsite software ready to be rolled out. I could try to explain all the fancy things that it can do…. But I won’t.

To be perfectly honest it’s mind-blowing the lengths that they are going to. When Stuart, our Rapidsite developer, has finished he will have completely transformed the way our customers interact with their sites as well as making then look altogether sharper and slicker than ever before. If you want to keep up-to-date on progress then check out his own development blog at http://rapidsite.wordpress.com/

Graham Armstrong

UFindUs Ltd