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How to do a really bad website
One thing that constantly surprises me is that there are quite a large number of “professional” website designers around who produce websites that are both very amateur and almost entirely ineffective in terms of findability in the search...
More focus required?
Much as we try to keep a broad focus in the areas of travel & finance here I’m sure that you find that it wanders quite a bit. Therefore what I’m planning on doing is to split it in two with ForeignPerspectives retaining all the trave...
Selling your property? Why not list it yourself and save on the commission?
If you’re selling your property, chances are that you’ve done what many people do and that’s to approach an estate agent or perhaps even several of them. Now, whilst that’s a good idea it’s usually pretty expensive. Depe...
Website design articles
Sometimes it seems like everyone who’s ever designed a website needs to run up a blog to write about it. Most of the time they tend to fizzle out though or change topics so that they end up being a general blog rather than sticking to their ori...
How individual is your Wordpress theme?
Whilst there seems to be a vast number of Wordpress themes around in reality many of them are simple variations of a single theme. Consider for example the theme I’m developing over at SevaTeem. I’ve started using early versions of it on ...
Free website hosting
Up until quite recently your choice was between paying $5 or so a month for a web hosting service or running with one that plastered adverts all over your site. No longer. Take for instance PinkPaper. You get a quite respectable 300MB webspace (more ...
Choosing a new web hosting service?
You’d think that choosing a new hosting service for your sites would be a fairly easy affair but the choice available these days makes it something of a chore. In fact, there are two separate things that you’re doing which complicates lif...
How reliable are hosting review sites?
There seem to be as many sites reviewing hosting sites as there are hosting sites to be reviewed so perhaps it’s no surprise that just about any hosting service can find itself at the top 10 of the listings somewhere. The sheer number of hostin...
Thinking of setting up a US company
I find myself in the unusual (for me) position of thinking about setting up a company in America. How did that come about? Well, some back of the envelope calculations indicate that there could be a lot of money to be made were some of my websites ho...
American Adventure
Some years ago I moved all my websites from a US hosting service over to a UK one to take advantage of the search engine boost that you get when your sites are hosted in the country where your target audience are searching from. Ironically, now I fin...
Being too helpful with online services
Online everyone tends to assume that there are infinite resources behind every website and, of course, that’s just not the case in reality. For example, we like to be as helpful as we can to those properties listed on our holiday accommodation ...
Targetting the Spanish market
I’ve been trying to build up the representation of properties that I have in Spain by way of sending out an e-mail in Spainish to a number of properties. Now, the sites that I have are basically targetted at an English speaking audience so I ne...
What do you do about all the new directories in your SEO efforts?
Many people these days work their way through a short list of the top directories when they’re promoting a new website. For some it’s a very short list: addurl to google and they’re done, for others they either slog away for months ...
When should you end a free trial and upgrade a holiday accommodation listing?
From about October through to March each year anyone who rents out holiday accommodation is usually innundated with offers for free trial listings from a range of listings sites around the world. One thing that almost all of the free trial periods ha...
Packing in the keywords to improve your ranking in searches
To get well ranked in searches you need to have loads of the key keywords in your title, description and text which is easy enough to do. After all if you were targetting “making money online” then all you’d need to do is to continu...
An easy upgrade after all
Sometimes the upgrades that appear the most complicated turn out to be the simplest in the end and so it was with an upgrade to our listings sites which I’ve been putting off for ages. What it does is to allow the properties listed to specify e...
Fully integrated at last
I managed to get the various listings sites fully integrated in their new home just in time as I’ve just had a couple of requests for upgrades to the sites. Back when they were all in separate places, the small amendment that I did this morning...
Systems integration on the small scale
Now and again it’s always useful to review the websites that you’ve collected over the previous year and consider if they can be integrated. We spent today doing that with our own collection of sites which are mainly in the accommodation ...
