Safeguard your company's privacy with these call forwarding services.

If you own a popular website that ranks highly in search engines' result pages, you may be unpleasantly surprised to find that publicly displaying your home phone number on it will cause many potential clients to call you at any given hour of any given day. The fact that a website's popularity exposes it to visitors based across the globe means that people living half a world away will likely use your publicly available number to call you at what would be a convenient time of the day for them. If they end up calling you while it is the afternoon over in their time zone, you will be receiving these calls in the dead of night.

Your public phone number's absence from your website likely would not have any relevance to its ranking as far as search engines are concerned, but you are still heavily incentivized toward displaying a contact number of some kind because visitors will potentially be alarmed and question your business' credibility otherwise. That directly leads to losing potential clients, so to solve this and prevent sleepless nights on your end, subscribe to a voicemail service that will allow customers to leave behind vocal messages that you can respond to the next day. When you replace your home phone number with a voicemail number, be sure to have this information updated on all other websites displaying your contact information.

Google Voice is a well-known service for many businesses that would rather engage interested customers only during business hours, but Kixie.com is a similar outlet that is argued to provide better service quality. If you only want to use Google Voice, be aware that it charges you if you need to change the voicemail number it assigns you and that it only allows you to change it so many times. Therefore, it is highly recommended to subscribe to Twilio's service as well; through them, you can establish multiple contact numbers connected to your number with Google Voice and display them on your website in place of that number, discarding and replacing them as needed.