Derek Semmler dot com - money, motorcycles and cars (with a little bit of everything else)

Have you ever wanted to add an AdSense ad block above your first post? Or maybe you have been trying to figure out how to display an ad block before your first three posts?
That was the question that a reader recently asked:
I want to place a 468×60 banner on my blog, in between the [...]

Who wants to join me for a trip to Las Vegas for the BlogWorld & New Media Expo and save money in the process?
The early bird registration for BlogWorld Expo ends on Friday, June 20th - which means there is only one day left to take advantage of the cheapest pricing. If you miss [...]

Earlier this year I had signed up as an affiliate of TTZ Media and created Spicy Tech Deals to leverage the product ads and create an additional source of revenue.
Thus far the results have been lackluster, due in large part to the lack of traffic that I have directed that way. For the right [...]

For those that are new to the site, you may not be aware of a case study that I performed last August after installing the All-In-One SEO plugin on this blog. Each phase of the case study consisted of a two-week duration.
For more background information, you might want to reference the first three installments [...]

When I first started blogging, I was obsessed with all of the rankings and statistics - Google PageRank being one of them. A few PageRank updates later and two of my blogs were sitting with a PR4, not too bad at all.
Fast forward to today and you will see that my personal finance blog [...]