In my last post I mentioned a new site I had been working on. The site is GloriousFootball.com.

The site is a football news blog, with articles mainly to do with football transfers.

There’s over a staggering 10,200 articles, which came from SublimeFootball.com (which I used to own) and FootballTransfers.info.

The site runs on Wordpress, which I must say makes it a joy to work on, especially when compared to the Sublime Football script I used to use.

The main problem after converting the MySQL database to match Wordpress’, was finding a theme.

At first, I was very interested in the Revolution Sports theme, however, the fact that it wasn’t unique and you couldn’t remove the links, I soon changed my mind.

Luckily, after begining to think I’d never find a good unique theme at a reasonable price, one came along. I had to tweak it here and there, plus I added the players in the header, but overall I’m very happy with it.

Something I delved into, which I really should have done ages ago, is plugins. I installed on Glorious Football as well as most of my other blogs: ‘All in One SEO Pack’, ‘Google XML Sitemaps’ and ‘WordPress Related Posts’.

Something I noticed missing from the theme was tags. Seems to fix it, all I needed to do was add a little bit of code in theme, which I did.

So Glorious Football is looking good - now I just need to decide on which direction to take it.

Tags: Plugins, Wordpress

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The last few days have been interesting. First off I’d been tackling an old directory script that was sending way too many e-mails about bad links. I suspect it was either the bots of Google or Yahoo who were triggering them. Anyhow, the mails have stopped after inserting spam protection code.

Yesterday I was trying to convert a news database over from some rubbish script to Wordpress. Considering my PHP knowledge is somewhat basic, it was tough, however, after many Google searches desperately looking for ways solve various problems, I managed to do it.

The funny thing after sorting out the news database is that I realised that it had over ten thousand articles, I thought there were a few thousand at best. It seems the database goes back to 2003, which was quite a surprise!

The database is destined for a new site, where exactly I’ll reveal soon.

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Sometimes you can watch an expiring domain only to miss out to someone else. Sure you can pay to backorder the domain to increase your chances, however, if there’s a lot of competition, you’re never really guaranteed to get the domain.

Yesterday though, I managed to get hold of a domain I’d be keeping my eye on. It had been taken, however, after noticing it had been registered at Dynadot, I had a feeling it might be being tasted.

Dynadot’s website says the following: “If the domain name is less than 5 days old, you can request a Grace Period Deletion for a Dynadot account credit.”

Admittedly, I’ve never tasted a domain, mainly because when I register a domain I’m more interested in keywords. Of course, if there’s any traffic that’s a bonus.

I’m really pleased to get the domain - it isn’t a .com domain of great value, it’s just yet another .info with keywords that’ll make a nice little site.

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Since coming back online following computer problems, I’ve acquired three fan sites for small prices.

The first was DBerbatov.info, a website about Tottenham Hotspur striker Dimitar Berbatov. The site needs work, however, as the Bulgarian could be on the move during the next few months, I’ve decided to put a much need redesign on hold.

The second site is PrinceFielder.net, which is a small site on Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder. It currently ranks on the third page of Google for “Prince Fielder”. Sadly the content isn’t unique.

Like the aforementioned, the next site, JohanSantana.net, lacks unique content, it also has out of date information too, as the pitcher has since moved to the Metz. But regardless, Johan Santana is a great player, and even though the site needs updating, it’s a good purchase. Another good thing is that it ranks on the second page of Google for “Johan Santana”.

So I’m pretty happy with my buys. I didn’t pay much, and with a little work, they should be good investments.

I managed to sell Faddiets.info. Unfortunately at the time of the auction my hosts decided to shut of all my sites down due to a problem. Turns out there wasn’t a problem after all. Morons. No doubt I’ll be moving hosts in the future. Anyways, the site was sold for just $8, which is a loss. However, it was expiring today, so saved me spending cash renewing a domain that I didn’t want to keep.

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