Google Analytics, Blogger, And the New UngsungBlog, And More Baseball Trade Talk
- So importing my blog entries from Blogger was quick and simple. Unfortunately, I ran into a couple of problems. First, Wordpress tagged all the Blogger entries with the “Sports” category. Second, the naming convention of each blog entry changed (instead of /yr/mo/xxxxxxx.html, it got changed to /yr/mo/dy/yyyyyyy.html). Of course, that means that people who linked to my Blogger entries will either to fix their links, or, as Krunk suggested, I’ll have to enter a few “redirects” into my .htaccess file.
I thought about doing that, and then I decided to look through my Google Analytics history to see what were the most popular pages on my site all time. The first one isn’t really surprising; apparently lots of people don’t know where the scroll lock key is on their Logitech MX3200 keyboard. The other two were quite interesting:
- Apparently, lots of people were interested in getting information about the Citibank Dividend World Mastercard. I also got quite a few visits, courtesy of mikesmullin.com (the link is now broken, due to the Blogger import, but I added a line to my .htaccess file to point to the correct page).
- Much more amusing, though, was seeing a bunch of keyword hits to my site consisting of some form of “dangers of a laser printer.” Now, don’t get me wrong; there’s nothing amusing about the fact “that some laser printers emit large amounts of tiny particles, which may increase the risk of cancer and heart disease.” What I do find comical is the fact that people who were obviously looking for information regarding article above ended up on my site, reading (hopefully!) about how dangerous refilling a toner cartridge is. Of course, the dangers were exacerbated by the fact that I’m a total klutz.
For now, I’ve since repaired a few links, and re-categorized the last three weeks or so of blog entries. UngsungBlog 2.0beta is still a work in progress, after all.
- Other quick baseball trade thoughts:
- Eric Gagne was traded to Boston for a package including Boston starter Kason Gabbard. I’m not sure why Boston was interested in Gagne, but I can understand why they traded away a starter, with the return of Curt Schilling impending. I’m thinking this was a keep-away deal, because there were rumors that the Yankees were involved.
- The Cleveland Indians reacquired Kenny Lofton from Texas, and I love this deal for Cleveland. They get a veteran OF to play LF, and speed and a veteran bat at the top of the lineup. And all it cost Cleveland was a catching prospect.
- And the winner of worst deal of the trade deadline absolutely has to go to Pittsburgh’s acquisition of pitcher Matt Morris from the Giants. First of all, San Francisco was practically trying to get rid of the guy, apparently offering to pay teams to take him off their hands. Instead, Pittsburgh swooped in, offered to pick up Morris’ entire salary, and threw in two players (one to be named later)! That’s like spotting an ad on Craiglist, seeing a guy trying to sell his car below cost–he’s moving overseas, maybe–and offering him MSRP + $1,000 for his troubles.
As badly as the Dodgers have been playing recently, at least they’re not the Pirates.
You can change your permalink structure under Options > Permalinks in WP. I think you’d want to do a custom one like:
/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
Seems easier than messing with .htaccess.
Thanks, but I decided that it wasn’t really necessary to “restore” access to every blog entry I’ve ever made.
Besides, most visitors to my site find specific pages, as indexed by Google. I’ll just have to wait for Google to re-crawl my site.
ooh, this is pretty!!
Thanks!
I was thinking about changing the background, but with all the positive feedback I’ve gotten from it, I might just leave it as is.