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19th Anniversary of Mangeur de Cigogne

19th Anniversary of Mangeur de Cigogne How can I forget the anniversary of Mangeur de Cigogne competition when Little TJ was born just 2 hours later and I spent most of the last hours in the labour ward holding little TJ’s mums hand 🙂 I’ve done a minor update on my Mangeur de Cigogne page […]

Stig of the Dump 60 Years Old

Stig of the Dump 60 Years Old 1st June 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Stig of the Dump by Clive King Stig of the Dump is a children’s novel by Clive King which was first published in the United Kingdom in 1963. It is regarded as a modern children’s classic and […]

Strange Humming Sound Warwickshire

Strange Humming Whining Sound Outside Warwicksire 09/05/2023 Anyone else hearing the strange humming whining sound outside at about 6:30 on 9th May 2023 A real strange sound that seems to slowly build up then slowly go away again I’m in Honington, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire and have been hearing it since about 6:30 this morning It sounds […]

20 Years of Selling Wheelchair Ramps Online

20 Years of Selling Wheelchair Ramps Online I’ve just noticed that my wheelchair ramps site – https://www.wheelchair-ramps.co.uk/ was 20 years old last month. I was working on the building industry at the time, saw all the new building regulations coming in regarding disabled access and the DDA, noticed a lot of it was being ignored, […]

Forcing an RSS Feed Update in WordPress

Forcing an RSS Feed Update WordPress Anyone know how to force an RSS Feed update or rebuild in WordPress? Please comment below Update: I found an answer here – https://sangkrit.net/how-to-force-instant-rss-feed-update-in-wordpress/

Myron Bolitar Has a Sister Shira Bolitar

Myron Bolitar Has a Sister (original post made on May 8th 2021) I’ve been searching for information on Myron Bolitar’s sister for 3 or 4 years now but have still not found out anything about her. I’ve only ever seen Myron Bolitars sister mentioned once twice in all of the Myron Bolitar and Win books […]

Businesses in Oxfordshire

Businesses in Oxfordshire We updated the Oxfordshire Business Directory section on UK Small Business Directory this week. I don’t know what happened but some time during my latest little spring clean I appear have dropped a load of content and there is also a problem that a lot of the same content is appearing on […]

How to Promote an eCommerce Store

How to Promote an eCommerce Store The UK Small Business Directory was originally devised for businesses with physical locations and when a small business registers in it we ask for their business category, their town and their county which we then use to categorise your listing. With Online only businesses and eCommerce stores becoming more […]

SEO Sim64

SEO Sim64 SEO SEO Sim64 SEO SEO Sim64 SEO If you want to know more about this SEO Experiment contact me or add a comment below. locksmith locksmith clements TJ – SEO Sim64 – sim64.co.uk

Alternative to URL Submission Tool

Alternative to URL Submission Tool in Google Search Console I’ve seen a number of people asking if there is an Alternative to the URL Submission Tool in Google Search Console recently and today on Twitter John Mueller posted a google docs document asking “Let us know about some of the URLs you would have used […]

SEO Tips For Beginners

SEO Tips For Beginners Always remember a page is a page, a website is a website. To optimise a website you 1st need to optimise individual pages Treat each page as an individual project but keep them related and well structured. Site Structure and Navigation Individual well optimised pages need a good site structure and […]

Sim64 SEO Tips

Sim64 SEO Tips A new section on Sim64 where we list some of our more obscure SEO Tips that you may have not read before. Note: This is an ongoing project and new SEO tips will be added as and when. Remember The Questions You Are Asked How to get natural links How To Get […]

Top 10 SEO Tips

Top 10 SEO Tips to achieve high Google rankings 1. Page titles should be as descriptive as possible about the content of the page and include main keyword target of the page. 2. Headers should include target keyword of the page. 3. Content should be carefully considered and include the keyword and derivative keywords evenly […]

SEO Tip of the Day How to get natural links

SEO Tip of the Day How to get natural links Todays little SEO Tip of the day is inspired by an email I received the other evening, “Dear TJ, I have been following your SEO Tips with interest and if you don’t mind would like to make a suggestion? How about having a SEO Questions […]

Free SEO Advice

Free SEO Advice The Free SEO Advice fact sheet that SEO Companies wanted to see Banned SEO Advice to boost Google Rankings – The foundations for SEO Campaigns There are generally considered to be two types of SEO – On-page optimisation and off-page optimisation, the first part of this Free SEO Advice fact sheet concentrates […]

SEO and Social Engineering

SEO and Social Engineering If you think SEO is  a 9 – 5 job then you really should think again. SEO is like Social Engineering and to get the full benefit you need to have the right mentality. Many people today think SEO is all about outsourcing, link building, article writing, guest blogging, forum commenting, etc. […]

How To Get More Links To Your Website

How To Get More Links To Your Website – How To Get More Links To My Website As I think most people will agree, Google still sees links to your website as one of the main factors in their algorithms when it comes to Google rankings. It was a lot easier getting links to websites […]

SEO Tips – Remember The Questions You Are Asked

SEO Tip – Remember The Questions You Are Asked Today’s little SEO TIP requires a bit of observation. As people email you, phone you or just speak to you throughout the week, make a note of any questions they ask you. Go though these questions at the end of the week, look at your website […]

SEO Tools

Update: 25/05/2020 Some of these SEO Tools may be a bit out of date now, I hope to update them over the next few days. Feel free to contact me if you have an SEO Tool you would like to feature on this page – TJ SEO Tools from Sim64 A selection of our favourite […]

Free SEO Advice

Free SEO Advice The Free SEO Advice fact sheet that SEO Companies wanted to see Banned SEO Advice to boost Google Rankings – The foundations for SEO Campaigns There are generally considered to be two types of SEO – On-page optimisation and off-page optimisation, the first part of this Free SEO Advice fact sheet concentrates […]

Find the Right Keywords With the Sim64 Free Keyword Research Tool

Find the Right Keywords With the Sim64 Free Keyword Research Tool We asked over 230,000 business and website owners which keywords they think relate to their business or website, the answers received are included in our database and categorised accordingly. The Sim64 Keyword Research Tool helps you find keywords and key phrases related to the […]

Google Tools Bookmarklets

Google Tools Bookmarklets Some of my favourite bookmarklets that I use to help check pages with Google tools faster. Google Rich Results Test Bookmarklet Instantly check that your pages are eligible for Google Rich Results with the Google Rich Results Test Bookmarklet. Drag the following link to your bookmarks bar and use it to test […]

SEO Advice for A Cup of Tea

SEO Advice for A Cup of Tea and a Chocolate Biscuit Sim64 is basically just me – Terry Simmonds a Stratford born guy who worked for a local building company for 20 years until I learned about SEO and building websites. After nearly 20 years practising SEO I still treat it as a hobby and […]

Find a Local SEO Company in our SEO Companies Directory

Find a Local SEO Company in our SEO Companies Directory For those of you prefer working with a local SEO Company we have created an SEO Companies Directory which lists SEO Companies by town or county. Simply select your town and county to find an SEO Company near you We currently have over 600 local […]

Google Rich Results Test Bookmarklet

Google Rich Results Test Bookmarklet Instantly check that your pages are eligible for Google Rich Results with the Google Rich Results Test Bookmarklet. Drag the following link to your bookmarks bar and use it to test if the web page you are currently on is Google Rich Results friendly. Check Google Rich Results Alternatively: You […]

Google Voice Search Tool

Google Voice Search Tool Enter your search phrase exactly as you would speak it. See the results returned by Google Voice Search?

Oxfordshire SEO Services

SEO Oxfordshire OK – Sim64 may technically be in Warwickshire but as our Stourton office is as far south in Warwickshire as you can get, literally a mile from the Oxfordshire border and 3 or 4 of our recent clients have been in Oxfordshire that’s good enough for me 😉 Sim64 have been providing local […]

Bulgarian SEO Network Taking Over London Service Sector

Bulgarian SEO Network Taking Over London Service Sector It looks like the Bulgarian digital marketing agencies are getting their claws deeper in to the London service sector market. I have been monitoring this for a couple of years now, unfortunately the GDPR making WHOIS information anonymous makes it harder to confirm that the websites are […]

Is Google Using Pearson Correlation Coefficient as a Ranking Factor?

Is Google Using Pearson Correlation Coefficient as a Ranking Factor? Pearson Correlation Coefficient used in the Google algorithms as a Ranking Factor Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient part of Google Semantic Search Following on from last weeks post about the Google delegated authority evaluation system and primary authority and contributing authorities This weeks post is about […]

Google Delegated Authority Evaluation System

Google Delegated Authority Evaluation System An evaluation system for reliably evaluating large amounts of content. Google Delegated Authority Evaluation System assigns a primary authority that can then designate one or more contributing authorities. Each contributing authorities is delegated a set amount of authority from the primary authority which they can then delegate to additional contributing […]

Shortcut to View the Google Cached Snapshot of Web Pages

See the Google Cached Snapshot of Pages The Google cached snapshots checker makes it easier to find the Google cached snapshot of any web page. Now with the 3 options; Full version of Google cached snapshot Text-only version of Google cached snapshot View the source of Google cached page 1. View Full Google Cached Snapshot […]

Google Business Directory Coming Soon

Google Business Directory Coming Soon Originally published on April 2nd 2015 Google has had a mish mash type of business directory for years first using the Google Directory (a parallel DMOZ), Google Maps, Google Places, Google Local, Google My Business. All have been a mess, and in my opinion the reason being was because they […]

What is Google Author Rank

The ultimate guide to Google Authorship and Google Author Rank Why improving your Google Author Rank will give you a warm fuzzy feeling and why it has never been more important to waffle away about nothing in particular. Contents What is Google Authorship What is Author Rank How Can I Improve my Author Rank Is […]

Sharing Good News : Google Author Rank Checker a Social Study

Sharing Good News : Google Author Rank Checker a Social Study Last weekend I came up with one of those wicked little ideas that I tend to do every now and then. I was talking to someone about Google Author Rank at the time so I set this little test page up with different sections on the […]

Improve Your Local Citations With Citations Booster

Improve Your Local Citations With Citations Booster I’ve recently updated Citations Booster to make it more user friendly. The search functions are a lot clearer and I have also made the registration process a little simpler To find out more visit Citations Booster Improve Your Local Citations With Citations Booster

Mangeur de Cigogne SEO Competition 15 years On

Tweet Mangeur de Cigogne SEO Competition 15 years On Was the Mangeur de Cigogne SEO Competition really 15 years ago this week? A lot of changes in TJ’s life since Mangeur de Cigogne Mangeur de Cigogne 15th June 2004 I went from all working all hours in all weathers in the construction industry to sitting […]

Google My Business Set Up Service

Google My Business Set Up Service. Google My Business is a free service provided by Google which enables you to get your business hours, phone number, and directions on Google Search and Maps – Google My Business. Setting up a Google My Business Listing is free of charge but can be a little daunting for […]

Nigritude Ultramarine SEO Competition

Nigritude Ultramarine SEO Competition Nigritude Ultramarine was an early SEO competition organised by SEO forum SearchGuild and sponsored by the Australian affiliate network Dark Blue (hence the title, Nigritude Ultramarine) The general idea of the Nigritude Ultramarine competition was to rank highest in Google for the keywords Nigritude Ultramarine on a specific end date. My […]

Google Search Console Bookmarklet

Google URL Inspection Bookmarklet Google Search Console Bookmarklet

Google Maps Creator

Google Maps Creator Use your Google CID number to display your business on a Google Map Google Maps Creator Enter Your CID Number: Select Zoom Setting DefaultCloseMediumFarExtra FarGlobal If you do not know your CID number visit this page – How to Find your Google CID Number Optimise your Google Maps listing with – Google […]

SEO Tips Keep your navigation tight

SEO Tips Keep your navigation tight Just a quick demonstration of the nav bar used for low number pages South Warwickshire Drainage Specialists Drain Unblocking Warwickshire Drain Repairs Warwickshire Drain Surveying Warwickshire Drain Mapping Warwickshire

Google Mobile Friendly Test Checker

Google Mobile Friendly Test Checker Google Mobile Friendly Test Checker Instantly check if your pages are mobile friendly with our Google Mobile friendly Test Checker. URL:   Alternatively use our Mobile Friendly Test Bookmarklet Drag the following link to your bookmarks bar and use it to test if the web page you are currently on […]

Business Listings Websites

Business Listings Websites If you are looking for websites that provide business listings or provide free business listings and free advertising have a look at the ones I have listed below UK Small Business Directory – Providing free business advertising to UK based Small Business since 2002 Citations Booster – A new service to help […]

Google Passing on Digital Service Tax Fees to UK Advertisers

Google Passing on Digital Service Tax Fees to Advertisers in UK I received an email from Google this morning informing me about an additional 2% fee on UK ads served in the UK due to the new Digital Service Tax. Country Specific DST Fees “As of 1 November 2020, we will begin adding a fee […]

How To Get More Google Reviews

How to get more Google Reviews on Google Maps and Google Local The ideal way to get more Google reviews is by creating your own Google Reviews Link which you can then display on your own website – See instructions on How to Create a Google Reviews Link below. Once you have created your Google […]

Translate Any Word or Phrase With Google Translate

Translate Any Word or Phrase With Google Translate Text to translate Translate From: Detect language Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hungarian […]

Google Business Finder

Google Business Finder Find a business on Google Maps – Have you ever done a google search for the service you provide in the area you are located and seen a rival of yours listed on google maps? Check below to see if you appear for your business name or business category – If not, […]

Google PageSpeed Insights Bookmarklet

Google PageSpeed Insights Bookmarklet A super quick way to check web pages using Google PageSpeed Insights Drag the following link to your bookmarks bar and use it to test web pages you visit with Google PageSpeed Insights Bookmarklet PageSpeed Insights Bookmarklet Alternatively: You can check pages manually using our Google PageSpeed Insights checker. Google PageSpeed […]

Google Structured Data Testing Tool Bookmarklet

Google Structured Data Testing Tool Bookmarklet Instantly check the structured data of any page with the Google Structured Data Testing Tool Bookmarklet Drag the following link to your bookmarks bar and use it to test the Structured Data of the page you are on. Check Structured Data Alternatively: You can check pages manually using our […]

Mobile Friendly Checker Bookmarklet

Mobile Friendly Test Bookmarklet Instantly check the that your pages are mobile friendly with the Google Mobile friendly Test Bookmarklet. Drag the following link to your bookmarks bar and use it to test if the web page you are currently on is mobile friendly. Check if Mobile Friendly Alternatively: You can check pages manually using […]

Trick Google in to thinking you are searching from any location

Trick Google in to thinking you are searching from any location Enter any location below to trick Google in to thinking you are searching from that location. Enter Search Phrase: Enter Search Location: Number of Results Displayed: How This Works w+CAIQICI LONDON ABCDEF + 1 = mystery letter = G base64 LONDON = TG9uZG9u Result […]

SERPs Competitions SEO Contests

SEO Competitions – SERPs Competition A SERPS Competition was a game often organised by SEO forums where a target word or phrase was set and the idea of the game was to see who could rank highest for the word or phrase within a set time period. The reason they were called SERPs competitions is […]

UK SEO Services and Search Engine Optimisation Advice

SEO Services Sim64 has been providing SEO services (search engine optimisation services) since 2001 We now provide a range of SEO services and SEO training packages devised to help you learn SEO yourself and teach you the basics of how to create websites that rank high in search engines. With this knowledge you can then […]

SEO Tip of the Day Treat SEO like a game and have fun

SEO Tip of the Day Treat SEO like a game and have fun OK, so it’s not really an SEO Tip again, I seem to have this habit lately of sitting down to write my Daily SEO Tip but instead drifting of in to general waffle. Tonights SEO Tip waffle is about how much better and […]

V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO Competition

V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO Competition This V7ndotcom Elursrebmem page has been moved on to WordPress and redirected from the old page. V7ndotcom Elursrebmem Competition The V7ndotcom Elursrebmem competition was one of the later SEO competitions organised by the SEO and Marketing forum V7N I never really took part in this one other than putting up a page which deliberately […]

Hexadecimal to Decimal

Hex Dec Converter and Dec Hex Converter for Large Numbers Use the Hex Dec converter to convert from Hexadecimal to Decimal Use the Dec Hex converter to convert from Decimal to Hexadecimal See full version at Hex Dec Converter and Dec Hex Converter for Large Numbers Hex Dec Converter Enter Hexadecimal number Dec Hex Converter […]

Trick Google in to thinking you are searching from any location

Trick Google in to thinking you are searching from any location Enter any location below to trick Google in to thinking you are searching from that location. Enter Search Phrase: Enter Search Location: Number of Results Displayed:  

UKSBD Map Finder

UKSBD Map Finder Enter Business Name and Location: Free Map Finder provided by UKSBD using Google Maps API  

Spam .it Domains Flooding Google

Spam .it Domains Flooding Google – Sub Domains Spamming Google Has anyone else noticed a mass increase of spam .it domains flooding Google recently? They tend to be sub domains in the format ***.*******.it I’m seeing them everywhere especially in some Google Alerts that I have set up. They appear to be scraping content, cloaking […]

Improve your NAP Citations Improve your Local Search Results

Improve your NAP Citations Improve your Local Search Results A few years ago SEO tended to be about hiding your footsteps, this has all changed recently with citations and trust becoming more and more important. Especially poignant for local businesses or those trying to rank high for local search is NAP citations Name Address Phone. A […]

TJ SEO Sim64

TJ’s SEO Story After over 15 years of SEO I thought it was about time I told the tale of how it all started and how I went from working 45 hours a week in a low paid job to being semi-retired with 2 mortgage free properties. As the story started with sim64.co.uk I’ve put […]

Don’t forget the 2 post rule – SEO Tip

This is as much a reminder to me as anyone else –  The 2 Post Rule and SEO I sometimes get a bit excited when a new idea comes in to my head and the 2 post rule can go out of the window 🙁 When thinking straight I tend to use the 2 post rule better […]

What has happened to the Autotrader website

What has happened to the Autotrader website I used to rank Autotrader as one of the best and most useful sites on the web I just went to look for a van though and the autotrader site is terrible now. I get script errors that make the site really slow or freeze the pages, when […]

Business Categories in UK Small Business Directory

Business Categories in UK Small Business Directory We currently have approximately 1400 different business categories in UK Small Business Directory Below is a list of each category in each county and each category in each town Business Categories in County A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O […]

Calmly degutting pears : Social Study by Michael Baldwin

Calmly Degutting Pears : Social Study by Michael Baldwin Update: 20/02/14 Michael Jesse Baldwin, poet and novelist, born 1 May 1930; died 3 February 2014 Michael Baldwin obituary on The Guardian My original post It must have been 4 or 5 years ago when I made a little blog post asking if anyone could remember […]

Terry Simmonds

Terry Simmonds – Warwickshire SEO Terry Simmonds is an SEO specialist at Sim64.co.uk and provides SEO Services, SEO Advice and SEO Tips to local small business owners in the South Warwickshire area. Terry has nearly 2 decades in the SEO industry but is now semi-retired and very selective about any new SEO work undertaken. Terry […]

SEO Competitions to rank highest in Google

Hard to believe but 8 years ago sim64 was my strongest website and would rank for virtually anything I targeted at the drop of the hat. I was using it for affiliate work, as a SEO testing site and it was also one of the main sites I used in the SEO Competions like SERPs, Nigritude […]

How to Make a Fake Billy Mask

Tweet How to Make a Fake Billy Mask – Billy Murphy Mask The Young Offenders I had jaw cancer last year which resulted in 4 or 5 operations, 7 weeks in hospital, 3 courses of chemotherapy and 7 weeks of radiotherapy . Jaw Cancer – Every cloud has a silver lining Every cloud has a […]

Broken Link Backlink Campaign

Possibly The Greatest Broken Link Backlink Campaign Ever GeoCities We’ve probably all received the Broken Link Detected emails sometime in the past. They generally go along the lines of; “Hi TJ, I’m *** from ****. I was surfing Online and came across your article about ***, It’s a great article but I noticed you have […]

Does Boris Johnson have Dyspraxia

Does Boris Johnson have Dyspraxia The more I see Boris Johnson the more I see the same Dyspraxia traits that my wife has. The way he holds himself, his clumsiness, his mannerisms, his always looking a bit dishevelled. Does anyone know if Boris Johnson has actually been diagnosed with Dyspraxia or not?

Where is My Polling Station

Where is My Polling Station for the 2019 General Election Find your local polling station for the 12th December 2019 General Election. Note: Many councils have yet to announce the location of local polling stations, enter your Postcode below to see if your polling station has been announced yet, or if not, find the contact […]

Google Site Kit WordPress Plugin Crashes Site

Google Site Kit WordPress Plugin Crashes Site I just tried installing and running the new Site Kit WordPress plugin from Google and it crashed my site 🙁 Only way of getting it back Online was to FTP and delete the Google Site Kit Plugin Anyone else experiencing this problem with the Site Kit Plugin crashing […]

Poppies at Shipston

Poppies at Shipston Lovely poppy vale on St. Edmund Church Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire Poppies at Shipston Lovely poppy vale on St. Edmund Church Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire I would love to know more about the knitted poppy vale at St. Edmund’s in Shipston, if you have any further information please comment below. [Click on image to enlarge]

Business Advertising

Business Advertising The UK Small Business Directory has been providing Free Business Advertising since 2002 and now has in excess of 230,000 businesses listed. When registering in the UK Small Business Directory you are asked to provide your business location, contact details, a category you would like to be listed in, a list of keyword/short […]

Free Business Advertising

Free Business Advertising. Our main website has been providing Free Business Advertising since 2004 and also have a range of cost effective business advertising opportunities devised to help small business owners improve their own Online presence. It’s never been more important to have a good online presence and whilst the coronavirus crisis is on UK […]

Ireland Fans Singing After All at Twickenham Billy Murphy Young Offenders

Ireland Fans Singing After All at Twickenham Billy Murphy Young Offenders If you want to know why the Irish rugby fans are singing After All at Twickenham today this is why Ireland Fans Singing After All at Twickenham Billy Murphy Young Offenders Billy Murphy singing the Cork anthem on a hijacked bus in The Young […]

Youngest person on Desert Island Discs

Who is the Youngest person to appear on Desert Island Discs Update 1/072014 Head chorister Quentin Poole was 13 when he appeared as Roy Plomley’s castaway on Desert Island Discs in 1970. Do you know of anyone younger? ————— original post Youngest person on Desert Island Discs Unbelievably, after an hour of searching I still […]

Mumsnet Translator Wanted by DH

Mumsnet Translator Wanted by DH I will start of this post by saying I am not a mum I am apparently a DH with a DD, a DS and a OH who is a MNer Every now and then I like to pop in to Mumsnet to read about what to expect as my children grow up, and […]

Russian Military Victories in Ukraine

About 0 results (0.36 seconds) Showing results for Russian Military Victories in Ukraine Search instead for Russian Military Defeats in Ukraine No results containing all your search terms were found. Your search – Russian Military Victories in Ukraine – did not match any documents. Suggestions: Make sure that all words are spelled correctly. Try different […]

I’m Billy Murphy The Young Offenders

I’m Billy Murphy The Young Offenders After watching the 1st episode of The Young Offenders I thought what a load of crap that was. I couldn’t work out if it was funny or if it was taking the piss too much out of the community and the youth in the community in particular. I thought […]

Where to Buy a Fake Billy Mask – Billy Murphy The Young Offenders

Update 31/10/2019 – The Young Offenders Series 2 out on November 3rd 🙂 The moment we’ve all been waiting for is nearly here – Young Offenders series 2 Why this doesn’t get more publicity and isn’t talked about more is beyond me – best programme in years Update July 2020 – The Young Offenders back […]

UK Citation Sites 2019

UK Citation Sites 2019 As I am in the process of updating my Citations Booster site I decided to have a look around for the best UK citation sites 2019. I did find some, but what I found more of was – Lists of UK Citation sites. This gave me an idea, rather than creating […]

Scariest Video on YouTube Ever

Scariest Video on YouTube Ever This could possibly be the Scariest video ever shown on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oittwj6jFw


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