• Welcome to Gite Guru, the home of website designer Dave Smith.

    I specialise in SEO web design for owners of holiday rental properties, including gites, villas, B&Bs and hotels using Wordpress.

    I write articles here to help those in this sector to get more bookings. I also run a free French gite directory called Rent a Gite in France.

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Tignes New Year Accommodation

Just had a last minute drop out for my apartment in Tignes, meaning that we have last minute availability for New Year in Tignes. If you’re looking for new year accommodation in Tignes, drop me a line ASAP and make me an offer: it’s usually around £2500 for the week, but at this stage we’re willing to consider daft offers as we’d hate to see it go empty that year. You can check out the property here. Please get in touch if you’re looking for Tignes New Year Accommodation.

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Free, targeted traffic from Google Local Search

Are you missing out on free traffic to your website from Google Local Search? It’s an area that is often overlooked, but one that can generate a lot of bookings for your holiday rental website.

Recently Google started showing local business search results at the top of some search queries (although working out which queries they DO show for is tricky… compare these two searches on Google: Read More »

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Wordpress training videos on Gite Guru

A while back I did a couple of training videos showing people how to get Wordpress set up on their servers.

Recently I’ve noticed that, particularly with new customers, it’s sometimes difficult to talk someone through the basic functionality of Wordpress when you’re not in the same room looking at the same screen (which we’re inevitably not!).

With that in mind, I’ve started producing some really simple training videos and sticking them up on the site for clients and non-clients alike. So far I’ve covered writing a Wordpress post, writing a Wordpress page, Adding Images to a post or Page, and changing your Wordpress page order. All these videos can be found in the Wordpress Tutorials category of the site.

Coming up are using the widgets area of your theme, and some of the more advanced plugins such as next gen gallery. Done.

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New site launched for Les Gites de Kerdalidec

Another website launch….when it rains it pours. Not that it ever rains or pours in Brittany, which is where the beautiful Gites de Kerdalidec are located (honest guv).

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I was recommended to the owner Debby by an ex client, and it’s been great to work with her on the design of her new gite website. In fact, she gets the ‘easiest ever client to work with’ award given that we got the design dead right first time, we seemed to agree on everything, and we get the site finished within a couple of weeks.

The site features a stunning colour scheme, multi-lingual translations, and all the usual bits and bobs. Debby has a great SEO domain name too, so pop over and take a look at Brittany Gites.

ps. you can read Debby’s feedback at the bottom of the testimonials page.

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