Tag Archives: gite

Editing and optimising images

I’m a website designer for holiday rental property owners, and one of the questions that crops up all the time is image size and quality.  Whereas the majority of UK households are now on broadband, many around the world are not, and indeed, the definition of broadband is pretty loose. As I write, I’m on [...]
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Finally, position 1 on Google for gite website design

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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In your name… SEO suicide

If it ain’t broke…. Whilst reading recently some useful tips on SEO for blogs, one idea cropped up that I hadn’t considered before, and that was to use a custom permalink structure to include the category of the post within the URL. The idea being that if you have good SEO categories, then by using [...]
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Adding a favicon to your WordPress blog

Someone asked me how to use a favicon with a WordPress blog the other day, and it wasn’t as simple as adding a favicon to a traditional website.  What the heck’s a favicon? A favicon is a small image (.ico extension) which, when correctly configured with your website or blog, appears in the browser of [...]
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