Tag Archives: gite website

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 [...]

Posted in Improving your Gite Website | Also tagged blog, blogs, design, gite, install, plugin, sidebar widget, website, wordpress, wp theme | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Posted in Search Engine Optimisation | Also tagged blog, gite, gite guru, gite SEO, install, no follow, nofollow, nofollow for blogroll, page rank, plugin, search spiders, SEO, seo for blogs, SEO for gites, useful, vacation rental seo, website, wordpress plugin | Leave a 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 [...]