http://semlabs.co.uk The Search Engine Marketeer Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:47:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Are you blogging to have a voice in this new age of information? Are you blogging just to make money? Maybe it’s a little of both? Whatever the reason; be honest, to yourself and to your readers. I started building websites in 1994, why, because it was the next logical step in software for ... http://semlabs.co.uk/2008/03/25/why-are-you-blogging/ * AdSense-ready: The theme comes with three units integrated already. A 468×60 unit on top, a 336×280 unit on top of the sidebar and a 120×600 unit on the bottom of the sidebar. You just need to copy & paste the AdSense code on the specific ... http://semlabs.co.uk/2008/03/22/studiopress/ Posted by inflatemouse Note from Rebecca: Carlos del Rio is working with us on some conversion and landing page testing, and he agreed to author a few blog posts about the topics. Also check out his previous post in the series, "Can the Long-Tail Hurt Your PPC Campaign?" Doing business on the ... http://semlabs.co.uk/2008/03/21/which-do-you-need-traffic-or-customers/ One of the problems with Wordpress is that it creates a lot of duplicate content, and there have been a lot of conversations on whether search engines, especially Google penalize you for duplicate content. It seems that it is not a penalty but a filter. If you create a standard Wordpress ... http://semlabs.co.uk/2008/03/17/wordpress-duplicate-content/ Tomorrow brings the unusual combination of “Super Tuesday” as well as “Fat Tuesday”. Some will be blowing it out in New Orleans, getting all of their sins out of their system before lent. Others will be voting in primary elections. Maybe they’re the same thing (hey - ... http://semlabs.co.uk/2008/03/17/super-fat-tuesday/ Yahoo! has turned down Microsoft’s buyout proposal! Not much more to say about it - the Yahoo! board turned it down citing that it was not in the best interest of shareholders. Not sure how more money is not in their best interested, but we’ll see what happens over the ... http://semlabs.co.uk/2008/03/13/yahoo-turns-down-microsofts-buyout-proposal/ Eragon is a fantastic book, written by a 15 year old genius, Christopher Paolini. If you know the Wheel of Time series and Dune you know that Christopher borrowed a lot from them (and of course Robert Jordan borrowed a lot from Frank Herbert, so that is not really a ... http://semlabs.co.uk/2008/03/11/eragon-audiobook/ The other day, I came across Thisisby.us, a User Generated Content (UGC) driven site where they share the revenue with with their writers. I signed up for it pretty quickly; several months ago I had contemplated launching a similar project, and I was interested in seeing how well the concept ... http://semlabs.co.uk/2008/03/10/thisisbyus--a-new-writers-community/ I’ve been given a copy of Jaimie Sirovich and Cristian Darie’s new book Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP: A Developer’s Guide to SEO there are 2 parts to this : 1 the bit where I talk about the book and 2. the bit where I talk about the clever marketing ... http://semlabs.co.uk/2008/03/08/seo-and-php-book/ A weird analysis of Hillary Clinton’s eating habits. “Hi, I’m You. Date Me!“ Matt Welch thinks this election will actually be about the war. A good summary of what happened in the WikiLeaks case. Dick Morris says Hillary is costing herself votes with her antics. Housing prices are driven up by zoning regulations. The Internet ... http://semlabs.co.uk/2008/03/04/reader--short-links/