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Domains, hosting and SEO

A conversation cropped up in a forum recently about the issues surrounding domains and server locations when it comes to search. There is a lot of confusion out there about how Google et al decide which ‘local’ search your site should feature in. Here’s a quick explanation:
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Gite Guru offers cloud web hosting package

About 2 months ago, I had a hosting nightmare. 8 of my sites were hosted with a 3rd party and their servers went down. For a week. And for all of that week, there was a real risk that I would lose all the data from all of the sites. Understandably, when the sites came [...]
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Screentoast out of beta with audio

Most of the WordPress training videos on Gite Guru use Camtasia Studio for the screen recording. It’s a great bit of kit, but is a bit of a sledgehammer for cracking a relatively small nut and weighs in pretty expensive. I’ve been playing with Screentoast for the past few months, and it’s good, but lacked [...]
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Orange Mist Random WordPress theme for property rental websites

I get a lot of questions both on the site and in forums about WordPress themes well suited to the property rental market, and I always struggle to recommend a theme which can work ‘out of the box’ for people with only a basic knowledge of WordPress. Unless you know how to edit CSS, a [...]
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