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		<title>Free, targeted traffic from Google Local Search</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/free-targeted-traffic-from-google-local-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Your Gite Website]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are you missing out on free traffic to your website from Google Local Search? It&#8217;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 [...]

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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/make-it-easy/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Make it easy'>Make it easy</a> <small>Since launching Rent a Gite in France, I&#8217;ve had a...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/listing-your-gite-in-free-and-paid-directories/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Listing your gite in free and paid directories'>Listing your gite in free and paid directories</a> <small>There are thousands of directories out there on the internet,...</small></li>
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		<title>Google Ranking for £99 / Month: rip-off?</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/google-ranking-for-99-month-rip-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Your Gite Website]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m hearing a lot of customers in the Holiday Rental market talking about a service being offered by companies in the UK whereby they &#8216;guarantee&#8217; that your site will be found in Google against 2 specific search terms relevant to your business for just £99 per month. In my opinion, this is a rip off. [...]

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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/free-targeted-traffic-from-google-local-search/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Free, targeted traffic from Google Local Search'>Free, targeted traffic from Google Local Search</a> <small>Are you missing out on free traffic to your website...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/finally-position-1-and-2-on-google-gite-web-design/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Finally, position 1 on Google for gite website design'>Finally, position 1 on Google for gite website design</a> <small>Since setting up the Gite Guru website, I&#8217;ve had a...</small></li>
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		<title>Free Gite and French Cottage Advertising</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/free-gite-and-french-cottage-advertising/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/free-gite-and-french-cottage-advertising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free and Paid Directories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Your Gite Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free cottage advertising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, you can&#8217;t give it away. Since the launch of Rent a Gite in France, I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time optimising the WordPress theme it uses to make it as search engine friendly as possible. The site offers free gite advertising to owners of french rental accommodation. As a result of the SEO, I&#8217;m [...]

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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/annoucing-the-launch-of-rentgitefrancecom/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Annoucing the launch of rentgitefrance.com'>Annoucing the launch of rentgitefrance.com</a> <small>If you can&#8217;t beat &#8216;em&#8230; this is actually more of...</small></li>
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		<title>New service: multi-lingual websites</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/starting-gite-website/new-service-multi-lingual-websites/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/starting-gite-website/new-service-multi-lingual-websites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Improving your Gite Website]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Starting Your Gite Website]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Given Sterling&#8217;s recent weakness against the Euro, holiday rental owners in the Eurozone have been increasingly keen this year to look to other Eurozone members for guests. Increasingly I&#8217;ve been asked whether I can build multi-lingual websites, and whether I can source the translations for these sites. The answer to both questions is &#8220;yes&#8221;. It [...]

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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/starting-gite-website/do-i-need-a-website-for-my-gite/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Do I need a website for my Gite?'>Do I need a website for my Gite?</a> <small>Ok so lets start with the basics. Yes you do....</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/multilingual-gite-websites-with-wordpress-using-wpml-plugin/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Multilingual Gite Websites with WordPress using WPML plugin'>Multilingual Gite Websites with WordPress using WPML plugin</a> <small>With the Euro hammering Sterling, more and more gite owners...</small></li>
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		<title>Website Grader: Handy tool for checking your site marketing</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/website-grader-handy-tool-for-checking-your-site-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/website-grader-handy-tool-for-checking-your-site-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 13:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Your Gite Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gite marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[website marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Victoriac over on Lay My Hat just posted a really interesting little tool for checking your website marketing called Website Grader. Stick in your URL (make sure you include / exclude the www according to how your site is presented in browsers), wait a minute or so and see a fairly comprehensive report on a [...]

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		<title>Make it easy</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/make-it-easy/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/make-it-easy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Your Gite Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday rental directory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rent a gite in france]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacation rental directory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since launching Rent a Gite in France, I&#8217;ve had a lot of interest (ie people registering with the website) but only a 50% uptake (people actually creating a website listing). Given that creating a listing is free, this rammed home to me the importance of making your desired outcome easy for website users and not [...]

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		<title>Annoucing the launch of rentgitefrance.com</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/annoucing-the-launch-of-rentgitefrancecom/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/annoucing-the-launch-of-rentgitefrancecom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Your Gite Website]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[advertise gite for free]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you can&#8217;t beat &#8216;em&#8230; this is actually more of an experiment than a business model, but I&#8217;m interested to see what&#8217;s what in the directory market so I&#8217;ve launched Rent a Gite in France. There&#8217;s lots of sites out there taking money off people for listing their gites, and so I&#8217;m launching my own, [...]

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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/news/announcing-the-launch-of-mental-about-rental/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Announcing the launch of Mental About Rental'>Announcing the launch of Mental About Rental</a> <small>Been a bit busy over the last few weeks on...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/free-paid-directory/directories-should-just-tell-the-truth/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Directories should just tell the truth'>Directories should just tell the truth</a> <small>I&#8217;ve had a lot of feedback since the launch of...</small></li>
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		<title>Favourite plugins 1: All In One SEO Pack</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/favourite-plugins-1-all-in-one-seo-pack/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/favourite-plugins-1-all-in-one-seo-pack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[all in one SEO pack]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a huge range of SEO plugins for WordPress, but I like this one as it focuses on the things I believe to be important in SEO, and ignores the rest.  Most WordPress themes are designed with SEO in mind, and certainly WordPress, with it&#8217;s pings, linking structure, text focused content and customised URL [...]

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		<title>Finally, position 1 on Google for gite website design</title>
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		<comments>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/finally-position-1-and-2-on-google-gite-web-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since setting up the Gite Guru website, I&#8217;ve had a few search &#8216;keyword&#8217; phrases I&#8217;ve been targeting in Google. Some of them were pretty easy to get (&#8220;Gite Guru&#8221;: week 1, zero competition, &#8221; build gite website &#8220;: week 2 for some reason) and some of them proved more difficult (&#8221; gite website design &#8220;, [...]

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		<title>A 4 star luxury week in Tignes for £10.30</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/a-4-star-luxury-week-in-tignes-for-1030/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/a-4-star-luxury-week-in-tignes-for-1030/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Your Gite Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rent apartment tignes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just had a cancellation in my place in Tignes for this Saturday, so, with nothing to lose, I&#8217;ve put it on Ebay for 99p with no reserve. At time of writing and with 1 day to go, the bidding is at £10.21. Bargain anyone? If nothing else, it&#8217;s an interesting experiment in renting an apartment [...]

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