May 18, 2012

How To Make Your WordPress Blog Load Faster

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One of the best things you can do to improve your WordPress blog is to optimize the page load speed. Web pages that load faster give a better user experience, and will improve your Search Engine Ranking Positions (SERPs).You can measure how long it takes your WordPress blog to load in a browser, by using the YSlow Firefox plugin.YSlow will tell you how long it takes a page to load. It will also grade your site and give it an overall performance sore.The YSlow report reminds me of a … [Read more...]

How To Renew Your Web Hosting Account

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One of the biggest challenges I face is trying to get my clients to renew your web hosting account on time.As a web hosting reseller, I provide all of my clients with a login to their web hosting control panel. Since I manage and support their web sites for them, most of my clients never have any reason to use their control panel.However once a year the client must login to their control panel to renew your web hosting account and domain name.To help make things easier, I have … [Read more...]

How To Backup WordPress Using WinSCP

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I am really focused on learning how to backup WordPress. Being able to easily backup my blog is very important to me. That's where I am at right now, and probably the main reason why I have not committed to the 30 posts in 30 days new blog rule. I am putting a lot of work into the design and function of my blog, and I want to make sure that I am ready for the day that I publish a post that gets me enough "Tweets" and "Diggs" to crash my server.A few weeks ago I wrote a post and created a … [Read more...]

How To Get Your Blog Listed In Technorati

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It is not difficult to get your blog listed in Technorati. Technorati is an Internet search engine specifically for blogs, and it is a very popular source of information for bloggers and blog readers. Technorati allows users to find popular blogs on specific topics. Why You Should Get Your Blog Listed In Technorati If you get your blog listed in Technorati, it will help to get your posts indexed quickly and it could give your blog a huge increase in traffic.Before you can get your blog … [Read more...]

How To Backup Your WordPress Database

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I would like to show you how to backup your WordPress database.As a web designer and developer, I feel it is important to provide my clients with daily backups of their websites.Knowing how to backup your website files, and knowing how to backup your WordPress database are not the same thing. The database is not included in your files. It resides in a separate locationĀ on the server and must be backed up separately. I had a customer who wanted me to move their existing blog to my web … [Read more...]