New range of Blog Post Tools from Sim64

Sim64 have created a new range of tools for blog posts. See them on at the end of this post and feel free to try them out Let me know what you think by Commenting Here »

Mangeur de Cigogne Competition 9 years on

Was it really 9 years ago today that the Mangeur de Cigogne Competition finished? Mangeur de Cigogne was one of the early search engine optimization competitions where the object  was to rank highest for a made up phrase. The phrase mangeur de … Continue reading

Sim64 SEO Division Relocating in August

With construction of the new office well under way it looks more and more likely that the Sim64 SEO Services division will be relocating to Honington in August/September Sim64

Will Google or Apple Buy Ordnance Survey

With Apple moving away from Google Maps in iPhone will they buy Ordnance Survey? Apple (United Kingdom) – iOS 6 – All-new, Apple-designed Maps with 3D views. “The Apple-designed Maps app has turn-by-turn spoken directions, interactive 3D views and a … Continue reading

Google+ Help – New to Google+? Learn the basics

Now that’s a novelty! – A link direct to the Google+ Help page rather than someone just copying all the info, putting it on their own website, linking back there and taking the credit for someone else’s work. https://support.google.com/plus/  

Google Author Rank Checker Updated

Find Your Google Author Rank – Google Author Rank Checker by Sim64 Find your Google Author Rank by simple entering your Google+ Id number below Please note: only enter your 21 digit Google+ id number not the URL – For … Continue reading

Internal Link Devaluation

Internal link devaluation is where a website that has unnaturally high search engine rankings primarily due to the fact that pages are strengthened by internal navigation links are returned to their natural position based on the assumption these internal links … Continue reading

SEO Weasel in the Google Results Again

I have numerous little SEO Weasel tests set up and whilst checking through some of these noticed SEO Weasel was showing up in the Google results again. Where it differs from the previous SEO Weasel layouts is this one displays the … Continue reading

Who Will be the New Doctor Who

Months of speculation has started about who will be the New Doctor Who when Matt Smith regenerates in the 2013 Doctor Who Christmas Special. Comment below with your suggestions as to who you would like to become the new Doctor … Continue reading

Roast Penguin

Roast Penguin and Mixed Vegetables This Roast Penguin recipe comes from Google Penguin. Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook time: 2 hours Ingredients: 1 Penguin, Mixed Vegetables Cooking Instructions: Put Penguin in oven Cook Penguin until fully cooked Cook some vegetables … Continue reading

Hatena Blog Launches in English

My daughter is a bit of a Flipnote Hatena addict so we were sad to read that The Flipnote Hatena website and Flipnote Hatena for Nintendo DSi ended on May 31, 2013. Reading the closure notice at http://flipnote.hatena.com/thankyou we saw the … Continue reading

Google Fiber Coming to London UK

I wrote a blog post last year about Google Fiber in UK I was speculating on whether the £1bn deal Google had done to build a new UK headquarters in King’s Cross would also lead to Google introducing Google Fiber to … Continue reading

Has the Google Structured Data Testing Tool been Hacked

Interesting discussion going on at https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/webmasters/1b1ftgJO-XI/V5Yg59gvMaoJ about how the Google structured data tresting tool is displaying strange URL’s This looks like either a problem with the Structured data testing tool or schema itself. Would be interested in hearing any more … Continue reading

Has schema.org been hacked

Interesting discussion going on at https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/webmasters/1b1ftgJO-XI/V5Yg59gvMaoJ about how the Google structured data tresting tool is displaying strange URL’s This looks like either a problem with the Structured data testing tool or schema itself. Would be interested in hearing any more … Continue reading

New Aston Villa Kit 2013 / 2014

Aston Villa Shirt 2013 2014 Note: Aston Villa nPower Championship shirt temporarily delayed until 2014/15 OK, OK, I admit it’s only a mock up – If you want a real football shirt visit here http://goo.gl/EWp3L Latest News on New Aston … Continue reading

Google Author Rank Exists

Or is it a lot of people want to be known as the person who announced it. My Author Rank is 82 in relation to Google Authorship, Google Author Rank, Google, SEO and Bullshit. I also have an Author Rank score … Continue reading

Google+ Tips Tools and Tricks

5 of my favourite little Google Plus tools, tips and tricks that webmasters can use on their own websites. Self Hosted Google Plus Widget Google+ Search Box Google +1 Checker Google Plus Author Search Google Structured Data Testing Tool Button … Continue reading

Top 10 SEO Tips for 2013

Top 10 SEO Tips for 2013 – The busty bra technique – Lift and separate: If you are going to interlink multiple websites be very careful about lifting and separating and don’t take shortcuts by lifting content from money sites … Continue reading

2 Blogs on 1 Website for SEO

SEO Weasel and not SEO Lions I hear some of you say. The more observant may spot why and will notice SEO Weasel on one blog, Pigeons on another but all on the same website. The reason for this is that no matter … Continue reading

Google stopped crawling my website

Actually the title of this Post is a bit misleading, Google hasn’t stopped crawling my website, but it does appear as though Google has stopped crawling my homepage. The content on the sim64 homepage was changed nearly a fortnight ago … Continue reading

Irma Hadzimuratovic

I’ve blogged about Irma Hadzimuratovic a few times over the years. Most people won’t remember her and this isn’t helped by the fact if you go to the Irma Hadzimuratovic page on Wikipedia you are automatically redirected to a page … Continue reading

Log in details and passwords

Finaly got everything sorted ready for switching accross to my PC, whilst doing so, it made me realise just how much you rely on stored details. I was surprised to find I have hosting in 8 different places, I have … Continue reading

Ever improving technology

After the problems with my PC yesterday I have been using it a bit today in Safe Mode only. It’s when you do things like this that you appreciate what you have more. In safe mode my screen resolution is … Continue reading

Acting on a warning

For the past month my PC has been playing up more and more and getting slower and slower to start and open slower to open some programs. A couple of weeks ago I couldn’t get Windows to start, but could … Continue reading

The blogs roll on

I was so pleased with how my UKSBD Blog ended up that I decided to use the same set up for a latest news section on a few other sites that I maintain.

Missing site back in the serps

I posted last week about keeping an eye on websites, after spotting that 3 of my sites were offline due to my hosting expiring. One of the sites had been ranking in the top 10 for Induction Loops but because … Continue reading

Updating more pages

After yesterdays task of setting up my UKSBD blog, today I decided to have a look at my Used Car Dealers in Surrey page. My used cars pages date back to my old Sim64 site which had a used cars … Continue reading

Skinning a WordPress blog

A question was asked in the forum yesterday about what to do with a blog when it has run its course. This was the inspiration to do something that I had been meaning to do for a long time, hack … Continue reading

Sim64.com

I’ve had a good few weeks now of tidying up some sites and tonight went and had a look at sim64.com. What a mess! reading the front page, I see I said I was going to do the same as … Continue reading

Too reliant on one source of income

Although I have about 20 different websites scattered arround, the past 18 months I have been predominantly concentrating on just my directory site. It earns money in a number of ways; upgraded listings, affiliate marketing and increasingly Google AdSense. The … Continue reading

Win Win Situations

After setting up my new Products Showcase system for people who register in my directory I’m already wishing I had thought about it before. I set a 2nd demonstration section up this evening for an Entertainment Agency from Cheshire. It … Continue reading

Top 10 UK Business Forums

After a thread about business forums in UKBF I decided to update my list of Top 10 Business Forums and now include a brief description of each forum and also stats about number of posts, threads, members etc. I also … Continue reading