Every time I visit the Lloyds TSB website my Internet connection disconnects.

Sim64 is an old site of mine that is now over 10 years old.

It has been used for a lot of things over the years mainly related to SEO, SEO testing, SEO Competions etc.

As just a test site, it has been used for all sorts of grey and black hat techniques and for about 3 or 4 years was penalised by Google with the infamous -30 penalty.

This is just a little experiment to see if a site with a history like that can come back and rank again for a phrase like SEO Services or similar.

I’m not going to go over the top but just use some basic good old fashioned SEO and see what happens.

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They’ve been screaming when we try to answer the phone.

They’ve been fighting with each other.

They’ve been bored.

They’ve wanted taking to the swings and slides every day.

They’ve been hungry.

They’ve not eaten their dinners.

We couldn’t wait to get them back to school.

But now they’re not here, we can’t wait to get them home.

After all the fuss after 2 deaths at the 2011 Grand National and the new safety features we still get 2 horses dying at the 2012 Grand National (possibly 3)

I’m currently only making it available to those who email me and request access, but again, this may changer in the near future too.

Simply fill the form in on the following page to receive a link to the guide – Click Here to access free SEO Guide

Since the start of 2012 we have been monitoring sign-ups and comparing those businesses who also add links to their Twitter and Facebook pages – Google+ Business Usage Comparison

What is quite noticeable is the poor uptake of Google+ amongst small business owners compared with their use of Twitter and Facebook with our latest stats showing facebook at approx 29%, Twitter at approx 26% and Google+ at a lowly 6%

Even more noticeable when digging deeper is just how poorly those 6% who actually added their Google+ Page to their listing are engaging Google+

This can be seen by simply checking some of the Google+ Pages listed in our Google+ Directory where out of 500+ businesses who have added Google+ Pages only approx 2 or 3% are active.

I strongly believe one of the main reasons for such a low take up of Google+ Business Pages and the lack of activity of small businesses who do sign up is due to just how complicated Google+ Pages are and just how hard it is for business owners to share their Google+ Pages.

Come on Google, please make it less complicated and easier for the small business owner to use rather than the webmaster or the geek.