Tag Archives: design

Wordpress SEO: Beyond Plugins (part 2)

By Dave | Published: May 20, 2009
In my previous post on Wordpress SEO, I looked at how you can switch the relative importance in Google’s eyes of your blog name and description. In this post I’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 few) [...]
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Multilingual Gite Websites with Wordpress using WPML plugin

By Dave | Published: April 12, 2009
With the Euro hammering Sterling, more and more gite owners are looking to new markets to attract visitors. To do this, you need to be found in the right search engines, for the right search phrases, and then engage with the visitor in their own language to ’seal the deal’. I’m increasingly asked to design multilingual [...]
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Favourite plugins 1: All In One SEO Pack

By Dave | Published: January 31, 2009
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 structure [...]
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Favourite Wordpress plugins

By Dave | Published: January 29, 2009
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 for a [...]
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