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...

WordPress plugins update 3

It’s time for my WordPress plugins update – the plugins i use on this blog. I’m upgrading to WordPress 2.5 tomorrow. I tested WordPress 2.5 on another blog and broke some of my The current plugins i have installed as of now are: Advanced Tag Entry Akismet All in One SEO Pack cforms II FeedBurner FeedSmith Google Analytics for WordPress Google XML Sitemaps Gregarious Lightbox 2...

All on the up…

Well well, i’m back from my illness i had yesterday. Talkplaystation.com has only been online for a few days now and has received some good feedback. I was happy when i checked my subscriber count this morning for talkplaystation.com, which is currently sat at 7 subscribers, 1 of which is via e-mail. Something i don’t offer on this blog – yet. In terms of traffic, it’s been ok,...

Google are indexing so fast i can’t keep up!

I’m very surprised at how fast Google are indexing my blog entries. This is good news for bloggers because it enables us to get the words out far quicker than ever before. A year or two ago Google would take hours, if not days to index blog entries, but now the wait is over. Google are indexing my blog entries minutes after posting and i’m very grateful for it. This is far quicker than their...

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...

People think Google is the internet

I deal with clients almost everyday, but when they phone up to say they can’t log onto their website once we’ve finished it, the first thing that comes to my mind is that they are typing the address in Google. The first things i ask is how are they trying to access their site and they reply with “through google”. Obviously Google won’t have indexed them yet so i kindly ask...

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,...