Tag Archives: SEO for gites

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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Reciprocal Linking and the nofollow trick

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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New site launched for our apartment in Tignes

Just put the finishing touches to the website for our apartment to rent in Tignes. It’s built using WordPress, and has a combination of pages and blog posts.  As well as being really easy to update, WordPress is search engine friendly out of the box, although I’ve made several key customisations to it to boost [...]
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Using a blog to launch a gite website

I’ve just been having a sniff around the wonderful forum over at Lay My Hat and came across some interesting views on using a blog to launch a gite website. A quick note on Lay My Hat, it’s a great resource if you’re running a gite business, with loads of discussion and sharing of information [...]
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