Starmars Online

Get your potbellied pig to mate! In case you don't understand the title of this post, don't worry, I also don't. I am just required to include that phrase in a new post. You can take it literally, in which case, it means "breed your pig". It doesn't make sense but what else could you make out of it? It looks like it's just a group of words stringed together with no meaning. keke

I changed the permalink structure of my video games site the Games Master and I noticed the traffic I'm receiving now dropped dramatically. A bulk of my traffic comes from search engines. When I changed the permalink structure, the pages indexed by search engines returned a 404 error because the URL had changed. My URL structure before was /%postname%-%monthnum%%post_id% Now, I've read that (and I'm pretty sure I knew this before but I didn't really care) this type of permalink structure can be very taxing on the web host and can cause major slowdowns in blogs with LOTS of pages. There are warnings all over this page concerning the matter: Starting Permalinks with %postname%, %category%, %tag% and %author% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons. As I understand it, this is because Wordpress uses the same structure for the static pages you create and it can not easily distinguish between the static pages and the pages mentioned above e.g. a static ...

I noticed this yesterday when I checked my Adsense account. A pop-up came out asking me to try the new Adsense interface.

I just noticed that there are 2 new official gadgets/widgets in Blogger: Popular Posts and Blog's Stats . These are some of most sought-after widgets in Blogger, at least for me! Popular Posts in particular is very hard to find. Many of the codes you can find online either do not work or are very complicated. Blog stats are easy to find, but most of them rely on third party services. After some reading, I found out that these 2 new Blogger gadgets have been out for months. They were announced on August 30, 2010. I hope that they'll add gadgets dealing with comments (proper recent comments widget, posts with the most number of comments, people with the highest number of comments) next. I might write a separate post for each gadget after I examine them.

So I'm thinking I haven't checked or even visited my main blog at starmarsonline.com after I started this Pokemon thing. I finally checked it out today and was surprised to see what... 40 spam comments. FFS! Some are very spammy; some, it's hard to tell. I just trust Wordpress when it labels comments as spam coz maybe it has seen the same comment and links before in countless other sites. I believe these spam comments are made automatically by bots, spamming blogs with useless comments hoping that they would get a backlink to their site. Of course, this would happen only on blogs with outdated versions of Wordpress or those which use unreliable CMS . They fail to understand that this type of SEO is no longer a viable option. That's all for now. Like what Gary says in Pokemon LeafGreen, "Smell ya'"

This is a test post I wrote and published on the Blogger platform using Flock's blog editor. First, I'll add an image. Nada. You can't upload an image directly from this blog editor. You have to add the image url to add the image to the post. Big no, no! image added through web clipboard feature Using Bold text, Underline text, italicized text. Simple enough. Blogged with the Flock Browser

Every WordPress installation should have these CSS classes defined so they could use the text editor's functions properly. Some functions like image aligncenter don't work properly if they lack these CSS classes.

I came across this video from the Google which discusses various information about Google News. The most interesting part is at the end where the host talks about best practices (also the requirements) for Google News content. Must-watch for Google News enthusiasts and "trenders".

Can I please minimize using the<--more--> tag please? That's the "Read More" or expandable post summaries. Seriously, only long posts that look bad on the front page need this. The whole point before is that maybe if the reader gets interested on the article, he will click the Read More link giving me 1 more impression. Hehe. It looks bad though seeing one-line posts on the front page with nothing else below.

According to my analytics tool, one person visited this brand new blog! Woot! He came from my Blogger profile and clicked the link to this blog. He's from the Utah, US and he stayed for about 4 minutes and 30 seconds. :) I like firsts. But maybe I should hide this blog on my Blogger profile. It's not ready yet and it looks generic. Or maybe not. It's not like people would care so much if I had a sucky website. lol

I'm posting here my test post so I can see the CSS styling. Code taken here: Blogger/BlogSpot test post START

First sentence of my first post! I finally decided to use this URL. I might use this instead of Twitter coz I don't see much use in using the service. This means this blog may contain very short posts... like one-liners. That's it for now. I'll try to make one post per day as much as possible.