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Conserve page rank juice. Plug your blogroll!

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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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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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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