Tag Archives: gite guru

Conserve page rank juice. Plug your blogroll!

By Dave | Published: February 1, 2009

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 [...]

DMOZ editors for hire?

By Dave | Published: January 30, 2009

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, [...]

Posted in Search Engine Optimisation | Also tagged blog, blogs, gite, gite rental seo, page rank, paid listings, Search Engine Optimisation, search spiders, SEO, SEO for gites, website, wordpress | 1 Comment

Finally, position 1 on Google for gite website design

By Dave | Published: January 27, 2009

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 “, [...]

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New gite website and blog launched: Basse Copette

By Dave | Published: January 23, 2009

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 [...]