New services to support online marketing

Help is now at hand if you want to check out the effectiveness of your web pages - simply go to the website fivesecondtest.com for a free test. By uploading a screenshot of any page from your website, you can have it tested by random volunteers, who look at your page for five seconds and tell you what they can remember after viewing it.

You can test run this procedure for yourself and get the reaction to as many web page designs as you like. Go to http://fivesecondtest.com to find out more.

Another useful service for those who use social networking sites to raise awareness of their businesses is Ping.fm, which could save you time updating individual postings.

This service can update information for you across dozens of sites, and covers the top 40 resources, including Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and Linkedin. See http://ping.fm for more information.