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David Parkinson an Internet Entrepreneur on his journey to success and wealth online. I talk about different things such as movies, technology, video games, web development, random news and more. I also write my own honest reviews on video games, mov
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Goals for August 1 2008
I first set some goals mid last month for July 1 2008 and i managed to reach them. I explained why you should set goals, and i reached the goals set for July 1 2008. I know its a bit late in the month...
Talk Playstation not getting a re-design
TalkPlayStation will not be getting a re-design simply because i think it doesn’t need one yet. Why fix it if its not broken? I was looking at a few themes, free ones of course, i like them but ...
Its good to set goals for yourself
Its always good to set goals in your life because if you didn’t you won’t really get to where you want to be. This post reflects the goals i set a few weeks ago and i had to achieve them b...
Did i reach the goals?
I posted some goals to reach for July 1 2008 and that date has now passed, its now time to tell you if i’ve met them goals. So what were the goals? For talk playstation they were:- To reach 150...
Blog Stats: June 2008
daparky.com From 1st June 2008 until 30th June 2008: Visitors 2,912 Visits (2,747 Absolute Unique Visitors) 4,840 Page Views Subscribers (in accordance to Feedburner and as of today) 13 (June aver...
Updates to talk playstation done… i think
Ok so every weekend i’ve applied updates to Talk Playstation. I think its up to the point where im happy with it apart from the design. I’m still looking at a few templates etc. First thin...
Massive jump in search engine referrals
A couple of days ago talk playstation received just under 3000 keyword searched via search engines. This is a massive jump thansk to Google’s quick indexing methods. It will probably go down to...
My goals for July 1
I have set myself some goals and i have to reach them by the July 1 2008. Since my brother has been doing some stuff on talk playstation its grown into something kinda big. So the goals are:- To reac...
New themes i’ve been looking at
I mentioned a couple of days ago that i’ve been looking for a new design for talk playstation. Although the current design isn’t bad at all but i can’t keep it forever. A friend of m...
Why im not putting adverts on talk playstation
A few of you have e-mailed me telling me that i’m stupid for not putting adverts on talk playstation. I thought i would answer this in a blog post. It’s quite simple, i don’t want to...
Blog Stats: May 2008
The idea of this is to post the blog stats at the beginning of every month to share some information with you and how well i’m doing. All these stats are in accordance to Google Analytics. So wi...
I might run a contest
No not on this blog! But on talk playstation. Why might i do this? Well for one it can be entertaining and the main thing is that it could draw some attention and gain more visitors/subscribers. So wh...
I almost forgot one thing
You know i did the custom 404 page for talk playstation yesterday? A user e-mailed me saying that the ’search did not find anything’ page wasn’t very good as it just displayed ‘...
Updates talk playstation’s 404 page
I’ve updated talk playstation’s 404 page. So whenever a user gets lost or can’t find what they want a neat looking 404 page will help them further. I had a look at other blogs 404 pa...
Closing down on that traffic source split
Around 2 months ago i spoke about how i wanted a good split of traffic sources heading to talk playstation. I mentioned that having a good split is very good and talk playstation wasn’t doing th...
Looking at a few templates
I’m looking at a few Wordpress templates and i really like what i see Brian Gardner can produce. Why might i be looking at a new template? It’s not for this blog it’s for talk playst...
Giving blog directories a try + updates
I was browsing the digital point forums and came across a topic regarding blog directories. So i started to do some searching to find the best blog directories and start submitting this blog and talk ...
Where have i been?
I bet your wondering where i’ve been for the past few weeks because of inactivity of this blog. I’ve promised this that and the other. My life has gotten a lot more busy with seeing my gir...
So i e-mailed 6 bloggers this questions…
I asked ProBlogger, John Chow, DailyBlogTips, Carey, Smemon and Shoemoney all the same question. As you know my Playstation Blog gets quite a lot of visits and i wondered if i should have put adverts ...
25 gigs of data transferred!
My hosting package restarts on the 1st of every month, it’s the 12th today and so far talkplaystation has eaten up a whopping 25gigs! I find that eating up 25gigs in 12 days is a bit heavy loade...
Showing videos in RSS Reader
I only found at this morning that my videos over at talkplaystation weren’t showing in my RSS reader. I added talkplaystation to my RSS reader because one of my subscribers notified me that the ...
another update to tp
I’ve applied another update to my Playstation blog. This time i’ve written a better ‘about us’ page so visitors know what we do, why we do it and the team, although it’s ...
Page Rank 3!
I was on the Digital Point forums over the weekend and saw a lot of topics regarding Google PageRank updating. Today is bank Holiday and i’m pretty much bored and not really doing anything so i...
What a week it’s been!
The surprise i wanted to show you today i mentioned yesterday is here. I wouldn’t say it’s a surprise it’s more of a wow factor than a surprise. Anyway it’s been a very hectic ...
I’m getting there, almost at number 1
I few weeks ago i made a post regarding how i rank in Google for my own name, David Parkinson. I’ve just checked now and i rank in at number 2! My ultimate aim is to become number 1 in Google fo...
Server has been upgraded
I’ve just received an email from my hosting company to say that my sites have been moved to a better server. What a difference it has made especially on talkplaystation.com. I notice speed incre...
BlogRush is now removed
I tested BlogRush for a few months now and its not delivered to my expectations so now i’m removing, you no longer see it. I would receive around 1 visitor every 2 weeks which makes me think wh...
Server is being upgraded to dual dual cores
I received an email from my hosting company notifying me that they are going to be upgrading my server. So that means this blog and talkplaystation will likely to receive some down time while the upgr...
Niche blogging, best thing i did
Talkplaystation has been online for just over a month and things are looking really good! In one month it managed to achieve:- 13,310 Visits (11,730 Uniques) 429.35 Visits/Day 19,220 Page Views 152 P...
No need to worry about indexing anymore
Everytime i made a new blog post i used to check in Google and other search engines to see if it’s been indexed. Not anymore. I hardly every check now because Google is probably guaranteed to in...