Category Archives: Marketing Your Gite Website

Finally, position 1 on Google for gite website design

Since setting up the Gite Guru website, I’ve had a few search ‘keyword’ phrases I’ve been targeting in Google. Some of them were pretty easy to get (“Gite Guru”: week 1, zero competition, ” build gite website “: week 2 for some reason) and some of them proved more difficult (” gite website design “, ” gite website designer “). I’ve been working on these in recent weeks in a variety of ways: Read More »

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A 4 star luxury week in Tignes for £10.30

Just had a cancellation in my place in Tignes for this Saturday, so, with nothing to lose, I’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’s an interesting experiment in renting an apartment via Ebay!

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Domains, hosting and SEO

A conversation cropped up in a forum recently about the issues surrounding domains and server locations when it comes to search. There is a lot of confusion out there about how Google et al decide which ‘local’ search your site should feature in.

Here’s a quick explanation: Read More »

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Reciprocal Linking and the nofollow trick

I read an interesting discussion on the Lay My Hat forum about the pros and cons of reciprocal linking today, and thought it might be useful to share some thoughts on the matter here.

There are two reasons why directories want you to link back to them. Read More »

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