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		<title>Are you suffering from Google Fear?</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/are-you-suffering-from-google-fear/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/are-you-suffering-from-google-fear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 09:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Improving your Gite Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[improve page rank]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://giteguru.com/?p=567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Def: &#8220;A crippling fear of updating your website home page for fear of adversely affecting your Google search ranking &#38; traffic&#8221;. You built your website a couple of years back, you&#8217;ve spent time (possibly money) getting your Seach Engine Optimisation right, and you&#8217;re proud of your Google traffic and page rank. You know that the [...]

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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/free-targeted-traffic-from-google-local-search/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Free, targeted traffic from Google Local Search'>Free, targeted traffic from Google Local Search</a> <small>Are you missing out on free traffic to your website...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/dmoz-editors-for-hire/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: DMOZ editors for hire?'>DMOZ editors for hire?</a> <small>Shock!! horror!! Is nothing in this world sacred any more? ...</small></li>
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		<title>WordPress SEO: Beyond Plugins (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/wordpress-seo-beyond-plugins-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/wordpress-seo-beyond-plugins-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 13:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://giteguru.com/?p=538</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post on WordPress SEO, I looked at how you can switch the relative importance in Google&#8217;s eyes of your blog name and description. In this post I&#8217;ll look at how we can change our page titles to make them more SEO friendly without messing up our website navigation.  One of my (very [...]

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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/favourite-plugins-2-my-page-order/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Favourite plugins 2: My Page Order'>Favourite plugins 2: My Page Order</a> <small>This one is critical for the layout of any blog,...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/favourite-wordpress-plugins/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Favourite WordPress plugins'>Favourite WordPress plugins</a> <small>I only found out this morning that yesterday (28th Jan)...</small></li>
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		<title>Conserve page rank juice. Plug your blogroll!</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/conserve-page-rank-juice-plug-your-blogroll/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/conserve-page-rank-juice-plug-your-blogroll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gite guru]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[seo for blogs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vacation rental seo]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://giteguru.com/?p=355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/reciprocal-linking-and-the-nofollow-trick/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Reciprocal Linking and the nofollow trick'>Reciprocal Linking and the nofollow trick</a> <small>I read an interesting discussion on the Lay My Hat...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/adding-a-favicon-to-your-wordpress-blog/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Adding a favicon to your WordPress blog'>Adding a favicon to your WordPress blog</a> <small>Someone asked me how to use a favicon with a...</small></li>
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		<title>Favourite plugins 1: All In One SEO Pack</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/favourite-plugins-1-all-in-one-seo-pack/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/favourite-plugins-1-all-in-one-seo-pack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Favourite Wordpress plugins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Your Gite Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[all in one SEO pack]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cottage rental seo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gite rental seo]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://giteguru.com/?p=342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a huge range of SEO plugins for WordPress, but I like this one as it focuses on the things I believe to be important in SEO, and ignores the rest.  Most WordPress themes are designed with SEO in mind, and certainly WordPress, with it&#8217;s pings, linking structure, text focused content and customised URL [...]

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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/favourite-plugins-2-my-page-order/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Favourite plugins 2: My Page Order'>Favourite plugins 2: My Page Order</a> <small>This one is critical for the layout of any blog,...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/favourite-wordpress-plugins/favourite-plugins-4-wenderhost-subpages-widget/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Favourite plugins 4: Wenderhost Subpages widget'>Favourite plugins 4: Wenderhost Subpages widget</a> <small>I only found this plugin a few weeks ago, but...</small></li>
</ol></div>]]></description>
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		<title>DMOZ editors for hire?</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/dmoz-editors-for-hire/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/dmoz-editors-for-hire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gite]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[paid listings]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://giteguru.com/?p=388</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Page Rank, I&#8217;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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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/reciprocal-linking-and-the-nofollow-trick/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Reciprocal Linking and the nofollow trick'>Reciprocal Linking and the nofollow trick</a> <small>I read an interesting discussion on the Lay My Hat...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/search-engine-optimisation/conserve-page-rank-juice-plug-your-blogroll/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Conserve page rank juice. Plug your blogroll!'>Conserve page rank juice. Plug your blogroll!</a> <small>Thanks to Thomas from Luxury Normandy Gite for the idea...</small></li>
</ol></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, position 1 on Google for gite website design</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/finally-position-1-and-2-on-google-gite-web-design/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/marketing-your-gite-website/finally-position-1-and-2-on-google-gite-web-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Your Gite Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[build]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[build gite website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cottage rental seo]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://giteguru.com/?p=345</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since setting up the Gite Guru website, I&#8217;ve had a few search &#8216;keyword&#8217; phrases I&#8217;ve been targeting in Google. Some of them were pretty easy to get (&#8220;Gite Guru&#8221;: week 1, zero competition, &#8221; build gite website &#8220;: week 2 for some reason) and some of them proved more difficult (&#8221; gite website design &#8220;, [...]

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		<title>New gite website and blog launched: Basse Copette</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/starting-gite-website/new-gite-website-and-blog-launched-basse-copette/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/starting-gite-website/new-gite-website-and-blog-launched-basse-copette/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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 &#38; build with a luxury feel to [...]

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		<title>Domains, hosting and SEO</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/starting-gite-website/domains-hosting-and-seo/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/starting-gite-website/domains-hosting-and-seo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Your Gite Website]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://giteguru.com/?p=275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8216;local&#8217; search your site should feature in. Here&#8217;s a quick explanation: The first thing Google considers when deciding whether [...]

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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/starting-gite-website/buying-a-domain-name/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Buying a domain name for your gite'>Buying a domain name for your gite</a> <small>In a previous post i covered some of the issues...</small></li>
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		<title>New gite website launched</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/starting-gite-website/new-gite-website-launched/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;ve just launched a website for lovely clients Emma and David Worth who run Walnut Maison, a gorgeous gite with outdoor swimming pool near Bordeaux. The website design for this gite is based on a WordPress theme, and the site includes a variety of features including: Google Maps Google Calendar for availability A Google [...]

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		<title>Reciprocal Linking and the nofollow trick</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. The first and by far the biggest, is [...]

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