Darren Straight’s Blog

2674 different keyphrases were used to find my site in May 2007, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overal usage percentage.

3368 different keyphrases were used to find my site in March 2007, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overal usage percentage.

vtunnel | 2303 | 18.7 %
mkt004 | 638 | 5.1 %
msn conspiracy game | 365 | 2.9 %
https// vtunnel.com | 352 | 2.8 %
https //vtunnel.com | 307 | 2.4 %
https//vtunnel.com | 281 | 2.2 %
msn conspiracy | 197 | 1.6 %
https/vtunnel.com | 162 | 1.3 %
dnsas | 116 | 0.9 %
nine fathoms deep | 113 | 0.9 %

Other phrases | 7447 | 60.6 %

Well after much thorough testing (after the fiasco last time) I’ve now upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.1.3, and in addition to that addition I’ve also updated the blog theme from Lush v0.99.8 to Fresh-Compact v1.2 with some added improvements from Praveen Kumar’s version as well as some of my own improvements.

I hope you will enjoy this new theme as I wait eagerly for your feedback on it. I really want to hear if you think it’s better or worse than the last theme and what improvements can be made to it, also are you sad to see the Live Search feature go (I can re-implement if necessary) but happy to see the Shoutbox back, whatever you want to say about the new theme, let me know!

All feedback welcome…

Update: Thanks goe’s to Decipher for noticing that the Sidebar appeared at the bottom in Firefox 2.0.03, I was going to do one final test in Firefox last night but completly forgot about it, the problem’s all fixed now. I just forgot to float one of the divs in the sidebar to the right, guess IE7 forgave me for that.

2nd Update: Possible a diffrent colour? How about a colour theme selector or some click buttons to change the colour? What do you think of the black and pink in this picture, better or worse?

3rd Update: Looks like the current blue and green colour scheme is here to stay, as it’s got a thumbs up from my friend Eric Cheung and the andyman from Messenger Stuff has now grown to the colours, though he say’s that the idea of a colour changer woulnd’nt be a bad idea!

Anyhow thanks Eric for you’re feedback and thanks the andyman for all your feedback, I’ve fixed the coment anchor link problem and will look into having an option to preview comments before submitting them.

Thanks for everyones feedback so far, keep it coming!

3887 different keyphrases were used to find my site in March 2007, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overal usage percentage.

vtunnel | 2514 | 15.8%
mkt004 | 777 | 4.9%
msn conspiracy game | 710 | 4.4%
msn conspiracy | 433 | 2.7%
https //vtunnel.com | 346 | 2.1%
https// vtunnel.com | 249 | 1.5%
https//vtunnel.com | 201 | 1.2%
nine fathoms deep | 180 | 1.1%
sundown lincoln nevada | 165 | 1%
reading festival 2007 rumours | 152 | 0.9%

Other phrases | 10119 | 63.8%

1415 different keyphrases were used to find my site in February 2007, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overal usage percentage.

vtunnel | 3350 | 39.2%
https //vtunnel.com | 404 | 4.7%
https// vtunnel.com | 326 | 3.8%
https//vtunnel.com | 318 | 3.7%
websites like vtunnel | 111 | 1.3%
sites | like | vtunnel | 110 | 1.2%
https/vtunnel.com | 109 | 1.2%
https.//vtunnel.com | 67 | 0.7%
vtunnel proxy | 66 | 0.7%
https //www.vtunnel.com | 65 | 0.7%

Other phrases | 3603 | 42.2%

09:15am GMT (04:15am EST)

Just turned my PC on and eek for some reason my domain name “darrenstraight.com” is coming up with this message:

This Account Has Been Suspended
Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.

I hurry up and load my Billing Page for this domain hosted at HostGator and within minutes I find the problem, it seems that my account has been suspended because I have an unpaid invoice of $179.40 for a Hosting Package (hosting another domain) I had already previously cancelled and had my money refunded for after it was auto-renewed back in January.

09:36am GMT (04:36am EST):

Time to submit a support ticket to the sales department!

10:36am GMT (05:36am EST):

Ok so only an hour has passed since I submitted the support ticked with a priority of “Critical” and it’s still early morning in the US, but I really do hope someone reads my message soon, as my visitors are really going to be wondering what’s happening soon!

12:11am GMT (07:11am EST):

Great News, my website, my blog and everything else I have hosted at HostGator, is now online, so sorry to everyone who couldn’t access it this morning, all should be fine now.

Hello,

Your account is now online. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Regards,
James McHugh
HostGator.com

Damn do I love search term statistics of how people got to my blog or what!

Just noticed that if you search for “Microsoft Wow” either with quotes or without that I rank quite high in the search engines:

Position number 5 in Google:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=microsoft+wow

Position number 7 in Live Search:

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=microsoft+wow

Position number 10 in Yahoo Search:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=microsoft+wow

Update: Seems like my rank with that search term is slowly fadding away!

1442 different keyphrases were used to find my site in January 2007, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overal usage percentage.
 
vtunnel | 3531 | 47.4%
https// vtunnel.com | 237 | 3.1%
https//vtunnel.com | 174 | 2.3%
https //vtunnel.com | 169 | 2.2%
sites like vtunnel | 157 | 2.1%
websites like vtunnel | 79 | 1%
vtunnel proxy | 63 | 0.8%
https/vtunnel.com | 56 | 0.7%
vtunnel.com | 54 | 0.7%
https //www.vtunnel.com | 53 | 0.7%
Other phrases | 2861 | 38.4%

And as it’s a new year, it might also be worth pointing out the next top 10 below:

kate middleton | 52 | 0.6%
https/ | vtunnel.com | 49 | 0.6%
darren | straight | 35 | 0.4%
localgirlcams | 34 | 0.4%
https;//vtunnel.com | 33 | 0.4%
v-tunnel | 29 | 0.3%
https//www.vtunnel.com | 28 | 0.3%
vtunnel.com | myspace | 24 | 0.3%
vtunell | 24 | 0.3%
vtunnel myspace | 23 | 0.3%

Well I’ve decided to test out WordPress 2.1 Ella out on this blog, but to be honest so far I’m unhappy!

Some of my problems are:

1. It’s not compatible with my current theme, because every time I go to create a new post it keeps putting back my blog to the default classic theme, with a non-functional WYSIWYG Editor, argh!
2. It has troubles with link categories!

So I may just be rolling back!

Update: Well I’ve now rolled back to WordPress 2.0.7, however it seems some of the tables didnt get exported when making my backup.

Update 2: Ok finally got it working all again, with all posts and my username restored, I’m glad to be back in WordPress 2.0.7.

Update 3: Hmmm seems like theres some problems within PhpMyAdmin now!

Update 4: Looks like it will be fixed soon: phpMyAdmin should be working again shortly. We are pushing out an update that will make it work normally.

Update 5: Ok all fixed, and I can definetly say that I won’t be upgrading to WordPress 2.1 Ella until I’ve fully tested it on a test server.

Anyhow sorry for any problems you might have experienced last night while trying to view my blog, I’ll have to do some more testing next time before deploying.

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