I’m going to get rid of BlogRush next week

I gave BlogRush a try when i started this blog to hopefully drive some traffic my way. I haven’t been happy with it at all and doesn’t really drive any traffic, maybe something like 3 visitors per month which is pathetic. I’m going to remove the widget next week and stick to organic traffic. Also it may speed up the sites load times a little so thats another advantage of removing...

almost caught up

The stats on talkplaystation.com have almost caught up to daparky.com despite this blog has been online a month longer than talkplaystation. The stats for daparky.com are: 120 posts altogether 2,548 Visits (from 18th March to 17th April) 4,259 Page Views (from 18th March to 17th April) The stats for talkplaystation.com are: 119 posts altogether 11,531 Visits (from 26th March to 17th April) 16,469 Page...

Fifa 08 money tournament update league 5 and 6

Let’s re-cap and see what happened in league 5. The teams were: Liverpool (me) Blackburn (colleague 2) Manchester United (colleague 3) Barcelona (colleague 4) Manchester United came first, Liverpool came second, Blackburn came third and Barcelona came last. Manchester United and Liverpool made it to the cup final where Manchester United beat Liverpool. Not to worry though because i said i want to...

WordPress automatic plugin upgrade ftp details fix

WordPress 2.5 has a great new feature called automatic plugin upgrade which basically upgrades your plugins automatically with a single click without needing to do it manually via ftp. For some reason i keep having to input my FTP details just before it’s about to upgrade. I’ve found a fix for this and i will tell you how to fix it below. All you need to do is add the following code to your...

Rank 5 in Google for my name

I’m happy to say that i’m rank 5 in Google.com, not that anyone will want to search for David Parkinson, but it’s something i want to achieve, i want to rank number 1 for my own name and one day i will make it! I’ve checked different country versions of Google and i don’t rank as well as Google.com, probably because my hosting company is in America and Google thinks my site is...

European Travel Blog: Wheres Nigel?

A friend of mine has told me about his new European Travel Blog, a Blog where he talks about his trips around Europe. I must say, i’ve read all his posts so far and they are very good, very well written articles and goes into great detail about what you can do in each place he visits. I thought i would just mention it here as a friend. Check out his blog and you might want to follow his foot...

I’ve pre-ordered 2 ‘AAA’ PS3 games

2008 is the year for Playstation 3 to show what it’s made of with many ‘AAA’ titles coming out and i’ve pre-ordered two of them. Last week i pre-ordered Grand Theft Auto IV, just in time actually because now it’s sold out almost everywhere and will be hard to find in the shops. I think GTA IV will gross more than Halo 3 on launch day. The other game i’ve pre-ordered is...