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	<title>Gite Guru &#187; Search Engine Optimisation</title>
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		<title>Monitor your search rankings with KPMRS</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/monitor-your-search-rankings-with-kpmrs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Crap name, useful (free) tool. These guys approached me a few months ago about promoting their search engine rank monitoring tool to my readers, so I&#8217;ve been checking them out before blogging about them. Why wait 3 months? Because these tools are notorious for popping up and then disappearing again within a matter of weeks. [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/getting-found-by-search-spiders/' rel='bookmark' title='Getting found by search spiders'>Getting found by search spiders</a> <small>Part 3: Ensuring your website is found by search engine...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/improving-your-search-engine-ranking/' rel='bookmark' title='Improving your search engine ranking'>Improving your search engine ranking</a> <small>Part 4: Working your way up the rankings Often people...</small></li>
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		<title>How to appear on page #1 of Google in less than 10 minutes</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/how-to-appear-on-page-1-of-google-in-less-than-10-minutes/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/how-to-appear-on-page-1-of-google-in-less-than-10-minutes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the frequently overlooked benefits of blogging is the immediacy of results that can be achieved. With a bit of know-how, your site can appear on page #1 of Google within minutes of posting on your blog. It sounds ridiculous but it&#8217;s not. Because of the way blogs &#8216;ping&#8217; search engines to tell them [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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		<title>Are you suffering from Google Fear?</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/are-you-suffering-from-google-fear/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/are-you-suffering-from-google-fear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 09:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Improving your Gite Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[improve page rank]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://giteguru.com/?p=567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Def: &#8220;A crippling fear of updating your website home page for fear of adversely affecting your Google search ranking &#38; traffic&#8221;. You built your website a couple of years back, you&#8217;ve spent time (possibly money) getting your Seach Engine Optimisation right, and you&#8217;re proud of your Google traffic and page rank. You know that the [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/finally-position-1-and-2-on-google-gite-web-design/' rel='bookmark' title='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>WordPress SEO: Beyond Plugins (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/wordpress-seo-beyond-plugins-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/wordpress-seo-beyond-plugins-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 13:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://giteguru.com/?p=538</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post on WordPress SEO, I looked at how you can switch the relative importance in Google&#8217;s eyes of your blog name and description. In this post I&#8217;ll look at how we can change our page titles to make them more SEO friendly without messing up our website navigation.  One of my (very [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/favourite-wordpress-plugins/' rel='bookmark' title='Favourite WordPress plugins'>Favourite WordPress plugins</a> <small>I only found out this morning that yesterday (28th Jan)...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/favourite-plugins-2-my-page-order/' rel='bookmark' title='Favourite plugins 2: My Page Order'>Favourite plugins 2: My Page Order</a> <small>This one is critical for the layout of any blog,...</small></li>
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		<title>WordPress SEO: beyond plugins</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/wordpress-seo-beyond-plugins/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/wordpress-seo-beyond-plugins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 12:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO beyond plugins]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://giteguru.com/?p=458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the main reasons many people turn to WordPress is reputation as a search engine optimised publishing tool, which to a certain extent is true, in that it ticks several of the main boxes (spider accessibility, text, recency, frequency, permalink structure, trackbacks, pings etc). Additionally, a series of SEO plugins can further enhance your [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/wordpress-seo-beyond-plugins-part-2/' rel='bookmark' title='WordPress SEO: Beyond Plugins (part 2)'>WordPress SEO: Beyond Plugins (part 2)</a> <small>In my previous post on WordPress SEO, I looked at...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/favourite-plugins-1-all-in-one-seo-pack/' rel='bookmark' title='Favourite plugins 1: All In One SEO Pack'>Favourite plugins 1: All In One SEO Pack</a> <small>There are a huge range of SEO plugins for WordPress,...</small></li>
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		<title>Conserve page rank juice. Plug your blogroll!</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/conserve-page-rank-juice-plug-your-blogroll/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/conserve-page-rank-juice-plug-your-blogroll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://giteguru.com/?p=355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Thomas from Luxury Normandy Gite for the idea for this post.  Once you understand that Google pagerank flows DOWN links, you begin to re-evaluate the links that you have on your website or blog. For example, if a vacation rentals directory insists on a reciprocal link, are you going to give them a [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/reciprocal-linking-and-the-nofollow-trick/' rel='bookmark' title='Reciprocal Linking and the nofollow trick'>Reciprocal Linking and the nofollow trick</a> <small>I read an interesting discussion on the Lay My Hat...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/how-does-your-gite-rank-in-search-engines/' rel='bookmark' title='How does your gite rank in search engines?'>How does your gite rank in search engines?</a> <small>Just a quicky post of a useful tool I&#8217;ve been...</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>
				<category><![CDATA[Favourite Wordpress plugins]]></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 [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/wordpress-seo-beyond-plugins-part-2/' rel='bookmark' title='WordPress SEO: Beyond Plugins (part 2)'>WordPress SEO: Beyond Plugins (part 2)</a> <small>In my previous post on WordPress SEO, I looked at...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/favourite-plugins-2-my-page-order/' rel='bookmark' title='Favourite plugins 2: My Page Order'>Favourite plugins 2: My Page Order</a> <small>This one is critical for the layout of any blog,...</small></li>
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		<title>DMOZ editors for hire?</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/dmoz-editors-for-hire/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/dmoz-editors-for-hire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://giteguru.com/?p=388</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Shock!! horror!! Is nothing in this world sacred any more?  After a week of discussions in forums and on blogs about the value of a DMOZ listing for your website&#8217;s Page Rank, I&#8217;d kind of given up on getting Gite Guru listed in this mystical directory.  For those of you in the dark about DMOZ, [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/conserve-page-rank-juice-plug-your-blogroll/' rel='bookmark' title='Conserve page rank juice. Plug your blogroll!'>Conserve page rank juice. Plug your blogroll!</a> <small>Thanks to Thomas from Luxury Normandy Gite for the idea...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/paid-directories-and-seo/' rel='bookmark' title='Paid Directories and SEO'>Paid Directories and SEO</a> <small>In the last couple of days of surfing around, I&#8217;ve...</small></li>
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		<title>Finally, position 1 on Google for gite website design</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/finally-position-1-and-2-on-google-gite-web-design/</link>
		<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;, [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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		<title>In your name&#8230; SEO suicide</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/in-your-name-seo-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/in-your-name-seo-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it ain&#8217;t broke&#8230;. Whilst reading recently some useful tips on SEO for blogs, one idea cropped up that I hadn&#8217;t considered before, and that was to use a custom permalink structure to include the category of the post within the URL. The idea being that if you have good SEO categories, then by using [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/how-does-your-gite-rank-in-search-engines/' rel='bookmark' title='How does your gite rank in search engines?'>How does your gite rank in search engines?</a> <small>Just a quicky post of a useful tool I&#8217;ve been...</small></li>
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