Finally sorted out indexing problem

Google was indexing pages i didn’t want indexing for example, the admin pages, plugin pages etc. I installed Joost de Valk’s Robots Meta plugin which adds the appropiate meta tags to pages. An example of this is that google had indexed my login page, and robots meta has now put a ‘noindex’ meta tag to stop this from happening in the future. I used Googles removal tool...

Web Development category coming soon

This week or the week after i will add a new category to this blog called Web Development. The aim of this category is to showcase the work i’ve done for the company i work for. If your wondering who i work for, they are called Freebird. I work there as a programmer, developing websites the design team has put together. I’m not really into design, i’m more of a programming guy. Each time...

Thank you Akismet!

My blog has been online for a month now and i’ve only just witnessed the real use of Akismet. I currently have 15 spam comments coming from what looks like the same person over and over again: If Akismet didn’t exist then i would have a horde of spam comments on my blog. Some people don’t activate Akismet because they prefer spam comments to make the blog look ‘busier’. I...

Blog top bar almost done

Recently i mentioned i wanted to update my blog design and add in new features. All evening i’ve been tampering with the design of this blog. I’ve been adding new bits, taking bits out until i came out with this: As you can see i’ve added a top bar, consisting of three collums, two of which are occupied by ‘Recent Posts’ and ‘Popular Posts’. I think having these...

How i got into blogging, who inspired me

I mentioned early this week that i was going to tell you how i got into blogging and who inspired me. I will answer those questions now. This time last year i didn’t know what a blog was until i ran into Smemon’s blog. I was searching on Google for website ideas because i wanted to see what ideas are out there and start a website, develop myself from there, after all i was studying web...

I had no internet last night

Yes thats right, my internet went off last night due to a local exchange problem. That meant i couldn’t update my blog. I tried calling my ISP and they said it was an exchange problem so i had to sit there and wait for it to come back on. Last night i witnessed life without the internet and i was bored, very bored. I went on my Playstation 3 for a bit, but i got bored of that too because i...

BlogRush results after a week

I said i’d post some BlogRush results. Well now it’s been a week since BlogRush got activated on my blog. The results aren’t impressive and i don’t think i’ve had any traffic according to the BlogRush dashboard. Heres a screenshot of the BlogRush dashboard: As you can see, my blog post have been syndicated accross the network, with Burnley vs Watford being the popular post,...