Posted on Saturday 26th of July 2008 at 10:35 in Make Money OnlineI've read somewhere that some online stores sniff your browser history using Javascript to determine what you've been looking at. So if I can tell you've been looking at Dell.com recently it makes sense to target advertising in that direction. Vendors like Dell can check whether you've been browsing competitor websites and therefore drag the best deals they have right under your nose in an attempt to steal a sale. This is quite...
read more and comment Posted on Friday 25th of July 2008 at 17:41 in Web DevelopmentYou may have noticed that Seopher.com has had a minor rebrand; I've touched up the aesthetics a little bit. Well, it's because I finally got around to creating and launching StevenYork.com - my own portfolio and web development blog.I'll be writing web development tutorials on there periodically so it's worth checking out. The other thing you'll probably notice is that the background for StevenYork.com is identical to the one used...
read more and comment Posted on Tuesday 17th of June 2008 at 01:18 in HardwareI finally got around to reviewing Asus' lilliputian notebook the other day (the EEE-PC 701); something I'd been putting off for quite some time. I've had it for months but seldom use it, so it wasn't until last weekend that I was able to sit down with it and formulate a review. Ironically, the new EEE-PC 900 is out imminently but I can't see myself being an early adopter for it.Last week I was contacted by the PR company who deal...
read more and comment Posted on Sunday 15th of June 2008 at 14:13 in SEOWithout getting drawn into the whole 'conventional SEO vs LSI' argument once again (read my post explaining what LSI is), it's easy to see why having a decent vocabulary is going to offer sizable SEO gains and there are two good reasons for this.Having a decent vocabulary is an important factor for anyone attempting to 'make it big' as a blogger; not only does it allow you to convey your thoughts more accurately but it can tie in...
read more and comment Posted on Monday 2nd of June 2008 at 00:00 in BloggingAlmost every website in the world has a purpose, whether you're a photography blogger or an online store you have a purpose. Have you ever thought about how obvious that purpose is to someone else? Rule #1 of advertising is to make the consumer very aware what product you're selling; if you're trying to sell shoes and your advert has no shoes in it then you won't see sales - true enough. So what about your website? ...
read more and comment Posted on Tuesday 27th of May 2008 at 16:23 in Make Money OnlineI've discovered something really unusual over the past month; I stopped blogging because I ran out of time, inspiration and felt I had nothing worthwhile to add to the site. This is something I think is important for any blogger to do - concede defeat at the right time. If I kept writing I'd be saturating the site with poor content and that's no good at all.However, not blogging consistently for nearly 2 months has highlighted a...
read more and comment Posted on Monday 21st of April 2008 at 13:07 in BloggingThis is one of the strange things about being a blogger; if you're writing to a set audience on a regular basis there suddenly becomes this self-enforced expectation to keep up your posting schedule. But unless you're a professional blogger (With nothing else to do) this is very very difficult. So how much time can you take off?I've been consciously avoiding blogging recently purely because I've not had anything meaningful to say....
read more and comment Posted on Monday 7th of April 2008 at 06:46 in Make Money OnlineThis is a really strange move from Google and I can only imagine they're doing it to make their life easier. Keyword bidding on registered trademarks is a big no-no at the moment but from May 5th, UK advertisers are going to be allowed to do it.
What is it?It's essentially Audi advertising their cars by bidding on BMW keywords; so if I search for "new BMW M3", Audi's results can appear in the sponsored results bit of Google....
read more and comment Posted on Sunday 6th of April 2008 at 09:49 in BloggingOne of the nice things about blogging professionally is that you could viably work from anywhere; but you're unlikely to be in a position where you can write anytime, anywhere. I both admire and despise the people you see sitting in Cafe Nero (or Starbucks) at 11am on their Macbooks (when the rest of us have to go to work). For those of us who have full time professions to maintain as well as our websites, here are a few ways I...
read more and comment Posted on Saturday 29th of March 2008 at 18:26 in SoftwareWhile in London the other day I met up with Dan Sharp, the publishing director of Lusso (a luxury lifestyle magazine) and director of SWR Media. While chatting about business we got onto the topic of how the magazine was backed up, I mentioned Subversion as a possibility but was met with a confused expression. I figure lots of people are in this situation; doing lots of good work but not doing proper version management. This post...
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