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Conserve page rank juice. Plug your blogroll!

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 [...]
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Favourite plugins 1: All In One SEO Pack

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’s pings, linking structure, text focused content and customised URL [...]
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DMOZ editors for hire?

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’s Page Rank, I’d kind of given up on getting Gite Guru listed in this mystical directory.  For those of you in the dark about DMOZ, [...]
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Favourite WordPress plugins

I only found out this morning that yesterday (28th Jan) was Thank A Plugin Developer Day over at WordPress, the idea being a day focused on given thanks and financial support to the thousands of WordPress plugin developers. Well I missed it, so I feel the need to make amends. When I design a website [...]
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