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WordPress SEO: Beyond Plugins (part 2)

By Dave | Published: May 20, 2009
In my previous post on WordPress SEO, I looked at how you can switch the relative importance in Google’s eyes of your blog name and description. In this post I’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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Multilingual Gite Websites with WordPress using WPML plugin

By Dave | Published: April 12, 2009
With the Euro hammering Sterling, more and more gite owners are looking to new markets to attract visitors. To do this, you need to be found in the right search engines, for the right search phrases, and then engage with the visitor in their own language to ‘seal the deal’. I’m increasingly asked to design [...]
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Video: How to move your WordPress blog from one server to another

By Dave | Published: March 2, 2009
I’m in the process of moving all my sites from one server to another, and I’ve been asked by a couple of people how it’s done. It’s not straight forward unfortunately, but with a bit of care, it’s something anyone can do. The slightly rambling video (15 mins) is below with voiceover, but volume playback [...]
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Conserve page rank juice. Plug your blogroll!

By Dave | Published: February 1, 2009
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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