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I used the Google tool Steve recommended and notice it recommends clickable telephone numbers.

Is it a complicated job to make a 'phone number clickable plse?

I suppose I should also check whether the number's already clickable ... how do you do that when you haven't got a working mobile phone?

Any thoughts on how many is too many plse? 10 - 20? 30 - 50?

Can you mollify Google by very, very slightly varying your anchor text (eg graduate careers advice, graduate career advice, etc)?

Also, I heard that Google's now ranking website pages according to the length of visits made by visitors using the appropriate key words. My stats for very similar key words on a page vary from around 7 mins to 0 seconds so how does Google make sense of it all? Ho hum.

Apart from working on the web site, I've generally adopted a "batten down the hatches, cut expenditure to the bone and (try to) build up cash reserves" approach to getting through the recession.

No idea really but ...

... sometimes lost stuff reappears when you switch on the PC again - might be worth checking?

... have you got Norton on your PC? I think you can retrieve lost files by using it.

Good luck and sympathies. Linda

If you can think of a suitable angle, you might be able to hook a local journalist's interest and get him / her to write up the feature in their newspaper / special interest journal. Brainstorm "what's interesting about this business to the general public" and take it from there.

We have it easy, I think, because most people are intrigued by or concerned about psychology, recruitment, unemployment, career counselling, graduate employment and the rest of it. Most businesses can find some angle, though.

I wrote a series for a community newspaper called Pubcrawl about our local pubs. I made the articles more interesting by including in them a spine-chilling ghost story, historic tales about a coaching inn, the life stories of some of the landlords and so on.

If you want to try this approach, how would you hook your journalist?

You often find the press wants material that can be illustrated by a good photograph (they'll use their own photographer so it won't cost you anything - and you might be able to buy the right to use their photographs in subsequent publicity).

Good luck, Linda

Sorry, another techie question that I should be able to solve for myself but can't ...

The wrench tool is missing from the toolbar and there's nowt "user friendly" that helps me download it onto Windows 7. I've searched for advice but am turning up either old stuff (2006 - 2008 vintage for previous versions of Windows) or stuff which tells me I should use the (invisible) wrench tool to achieve subsequent goals.

What I want to do after I've got the wrench tool up is to download the Google page rank button.

Plse can anyone of you help me with both problems? Thanks. I've spent easily an hour getting absolutely nowhere! Linda

There was nothing there to celebrate UK innovation and social /economic / political developments over the last 20 years ... there surely must have been some worthy of celebration?

Hiya Dreamraven

Was curious enough to look up the Windows Task Manager on my old laptop.

Obviously a nasty doesn't stick up a placard saying "I'm really a trojan" so what do you look for plse?

My user name files say Linda; System; Local Service; Network Service - all perfectly innocent sounding. The only CPU processes running are explorer.exe 01;svchost.exe 01 (intermittently); and system idle process 98.

I assume all is well, therefore, but I'm not sure I'm looking at the right items of information.

Any more guidance please?

How much of a risk are the "social" mass mailings (political, charitable, jokes and video clips) plse? I tend to regard them as more risky but open some anyway, because they've been sent by friends.

Some of us have to, because that's how we get our business ...

I update my antivirus every day before I go on the web or open my email, scan the computers at least weekly and HOPE.