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Multilingual Gite Websites with WordPress using WPML plugin

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 [...]
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Favourite plugins 2: My Page Order

This one is critical for the layout of any blog, as the build in WordPress page ordering function is in their own words crap ’clunky’ and despite ongoing promises, it’s still not fixed in WordPress 2.7.  There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to the default page order WordPress assigns, which makes creating a sensible [...]
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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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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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