Tag Archives: Search Engine Optimisation

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, [...]
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In your name… SEO suicide

By Dave | Published: January 27, 2009
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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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 [...]
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Reciprocal Linking and the nofollow trick

By Dave | Published: December 30, 2008
I read an interesting discussion on the Lay My Hat forum about the pros and cons of reciprocal linking today, and thought it might be useful to share some thoughts on the matter here. There are two reasons why directories want you to link back to them.
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