Down in the MC-Tooling.com dungeons, we have been celebrating not only Christmas and New Year (and finally eating all the leftover turkey), but the super progress that we have made with the site in 2008. We would like to thank all the companies that have renewed their subscription with us in 2008.

It was a hard decision to upgrade the site so early in its development, but it has proved to be the right move, as we continue to improve our ranking.

We are pleased to report that mctooling.com now has an Alexa rank within the top 3.35% of all websites (Alexa is an Amazon Company). Alexa is a specialist online service that measures traffic for millions of sites on the internet in a similar way to Nielsen television show ratings.

We are also delighted to report that on the 19th December the site had recorded 50,047 viewings of the site listing since the 15th September 2008.

What is even more amazing is that we have now recorded in one month 9,614 viewings of the 10 videos we had placed on the internet on behalf of Advanced Carbide Tooling, SGS Tools, and VSM, (they were not all uploaded and available for the complete month).

As part of our long-term development plan for the site, we are due to implement a major upgrade to improve the functionality of the site software.

Having completed the software upgrade, we will be able to add further new software, to allow us to embed the videos directly into the MC-Video channel site listing.

Another key objective for this year is the upgrading of the automatic search engine optimisation software for the listings.

As you will be aware from our press releases that B2B websites are ubiquitous amongst business decision makers (97% stated that this is the media most used for work), but for the small minority that are not so familiar with using the internet, we will also be carrying some advertising of the site in the industry press over the next 12 months

All the above is great, but we really need your proactive participation by regularly revising your content/newsletters, and sending us your videos and if possible providing us with technical information/content for the site visitors.

Regards
Alan