It’s been a superb start to the new year as Google have finally gotten off their árses and given me a PageRank, and búgger me I’ve gone straight to PR4! This has done huge things for my organic search traffic since I now actually show up in google, not surprisingly 7% of the traffic I’ve received in the last 18 months of blogging has come this week! Today I broke the 10,000 unique visits mark which has been a target for some time.
I’ve just added a bunch of new things to the blog, such as a page that tracks live visitors, the ability for commenters to receive an email when a reply is posted to their comment, and a Gallery which contains all the images I’ve used since switching to wordpress.
I was curious as to which terms people are searching to end up here, funnily enough 13 people have found their way here looking for “cameron white cry”, the same number who have come in search of “jessica bratich”.
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Warney has played out of his boots to overcome being a Victorian and still get immortalised in history as a Beer and Sport Banner of Legends member.
I have spent the bulk of my cricket watching years observing Warne take apart all and sundry. His deception and mystery with the ball always amused me, his mastery of control both in the air and off the pitch, his ability to invent a new name for an old delivery every series, the mind games.. ah the mind games.
The man is so much more than the sum of his wickets. He polarises popular opinion in Australia, generally along the lines of gender. Womens magazines feed on his indiscretions, and I’ve boycotted many as a result. Here’s a comprehensive list of his misdemeanour’s including a Top 10.
Warney’s greatest achievement and one that all straight men aspire to, was getting a threesome with two hot chicks in the middle of a 1st class match, and going on to take 7/99. They even let him film it, then sold the footage to News of the World for cash and to promote their careers as Pommy and Kiwi slappers. Still, Warney in his playboy undies is a great image and one I’m sure he’ll be proud to show his grandson one day. It’s now immortalised in the Beer and Sport Banner.
While a test match century forever eluded him he could at times be brutal with the bat. I was at the Newport Arms when he got 99 against New Zealand and in typical Warney style wanted to bring up his maiden 100 with a 6. He holed out down cow corner to Daniel Vettori which surprised absolutely no-one. Turns out it was a front foot no-ball, though I have no doubt he would have found another way to miss the maiden ton regardless.
The 2005 Ashes for Shane Warne would have to go down as the greatest performance in a series of any cricketer in my lifetime. He took an incredible 40 Wickets at 19.92 which was 16 more than the next best bowler. What’s more he scored 249 runs at 27.66, and many of these came when all the batsmen failed. “His deliveries to remove Andrew Strauss at Edgbaston and Marcus Trescothick at The Oval defied logic and he can surely now make a justifiable claim to being the greatest bowler that has ever played the game.” [BBC]
Shane Warne is a top Aussie. He is also a massive pisstank yobbo with a beer-gut who dyes his hair blonde and drives a red convertible. Warney has done some bad things. He once got paid 100 grand by Nicabate to give up durries for a year but he lit up heaps when he was pissed. Then he took money from some Indian bookmakers for pre-match information. He once smashed a camera cause a kiddy took a photo of his beer gut. Then he got toey on the phone and dirty-talked an English girly who wasn’t his wife. However, all Australians agree that Warney can be excused for doing these things cause he spin bowls like a genius and makes England look completely shíthouse. Warney could drink all our beer and then spew on our carpet and we wouldn’t care as long as he keeps taking wickets.
Warney is a top Aussie.
My best man took the piss out of me at my wedding as my Wireless router is called “Warney for King”, and my cat is named Warney. When it’s time for dinner and I call the cats in there’s no room for high pitched kitty kitty crap… instead it’s the familiar and drawn out “Waaarrrrnnnnnneeeeeyyyyy… Waaarrrrnnnnnneeeeeyyyyy…”
By now you’ve no doubt seen the shít-hot banner that adorns the header of Beer and Sport. No-one got onto this banner by accident, nor is their pose chosen at random.
My mission that I’ve chosen to accept when there’s no cricket or rugby on is to blog on each member of the BnS Legends banner and explain my personal connection with each legend.
Most of them are obviously from New South Wales, since we’re the only state breeding the big names. Many others have some sort of tenuous connection to the premier state, such that I’ve claimed them for the good ship NSW.
There is one and only one exception per state or territory, ever. I’m currently seeking applications from SA, the NT and the ACT.
I’ll be building an image-map on the banner, so you can click any of the heads and go straight to the blog post on that legend. Could take a while.
MC Gregor, the magic fuel pill peddling West Australian Succeeding Kiwi wants a small wager on the Honkers Test. Personally, I’d have preferred the Bledisloe Cup to be put on this test, however that’s out of my hands.
So instead, we’re sticking editorial humiliation on the line. The wager, in MC Gregor’s own words
If Australia wins. I’ll write a mea culpa, heartbroken, humble match report for your blog. It will be white hot with pain and regret. If the Blacks win, you can do the same on the Balls?
I reckon there’s a fair chance we can get Leg Break and Matt to man up, which would make it two Aussies (one in exile) and two Kiwi’s (one in exile) ready to pen the artcile.
On a side note, I’ve got a bloody wedding this weekend and if the unthinkable happens my review of the match will be a few days late till I find an Internet Cafe…
Damn I’m loving the change over to Wordpress. The vast number of plugins out there make it so customisable, and I do love to tinker.
Today I’ve been playing around with SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), and finding a bunch of features that were never there in Blogger. It’s all about Google PageRank, so I’ve added the little pagerank checker over the right there. Sure it’s saying my PR is currently 0, I’m hoping this is due to the recently registered domain and google is yet to glorify me.
I’ve now got META tags going thanks to a plugin called Headspace that give search engines a one line description of an article so those words rate heavier than the blog title or the first sentence, cause my titles are generally puns anyway.
Another plugin I’ve cranked up is do-follow so now if you were to leave a comment at Beer and Sport, google will follow your website URL, and it’ll help increase your ranking in google. Not very much, cause Beer and Sport is PANTS in the eyes of google…… for now…
Turns out this do follow thingamy is part of a blogging movement to turn off the rel=”nofollow” in links left in comments. So to show off my bandwagon jumping I’ve stuck their logo up too. . How web 2.0 am I? Don’t answer that…
