Category Archives: Search Engine Optimisation

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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In your name… SEO suicide

If it ain’t broke….

Whilst reading recently some useful tips on SEO for blogs, one idea cropped up that I hadn’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 this custom structure, you create category pages which are well optimised for great SEO keywords. Am I making sense? Read More »

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New gite website and blog launched: Basse Copette

I’ve recently put the finishing touches to the design and build of a website and blog for a fellow LayMyHatter who owns and runs Basse Copette. Thomas knows a fair bit about WordPress having been using it on WordPress.com, but decided that he needed a professional website design & build with a luxury feel to fully complement his luxury gite business. Read More »

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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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