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As a site owner, one of the best ways to protect your investment is to install a good backup solution that is automated and allows you to set the interval. It’s important to match the frequency of the backups to how often you make changes to your site. But, you also have to consider how much space those backups take because you don’t want to overpay for storage. Here are a few tips to help you optimize your backup settings.
I’m delighted to have one of my favorite guests back on the podcast, Carolyn Howard-Johnson and we chat more in-depth about her latest book, The Frugal Book Promoter: How to get nearly free publicity on your own or by partnering with your publisher.
In my opinion, the default text editor has long been the bane of WordPress. It was finally reworked in version 3.3, but not nearly enough. In this video you’ll see my favorite rich text editor plugin called TinyMCE Advanced. You’ll see how to install and configure it, plus some of the options it offers that will make your posts candy for both readers and search engines.
All of the data in a WordPress site is stored in a database. A cluttered database can cost you SEO ranking and viewership by causing your site to load too slowly. Plus, all that useless information can cost you in backup storage fees by making your site files too big. Fortunately, there are two fantastic little WordPress plugins that you can use to cut the clutter in your database and keep it clean.
You can have a website in a day without knowing anything. That statement makes me want to laugh, then cry, then throw things. I know how silly it is. I know how sad it is that so many new site owners are easily lured by those who prey on the cheap-and-easy mentality. And, I know how much more it’s going to cost those site owners to improve their situation. Let me show you how to avoid getting ripped off in the first place as a new site owner.
The fact that I can publish this blog post is a testament to the power of the Internet as an agent of change that should not be censored, but monitored responsibly. Internet users and industry leaders helped put the brakes on two bills that were scheduled for vote on January 24, 2012 to allow everyone time to actually read what’s in those bills and take a better course of action. As a small business owner, blogger, composer, and producer of digital media that is disturbed on the Internet, the ideas behind SOPA and PIPA and their implementation are radically important to me. And they should be to you too, even if you’re just a surfer and have never published anything on the web. Read on to find out why.
Online marketing gurus tell you to make a special sales page for any product or service that you offer. But the truth is, every page on your site is a sales page and you need to format it as such. Here’s the how and why of it that will help turn your site into a better lead and conversion generator.
With the release of WordPress version 3.3 there are no longer performance penalties for using the pretty permalink structure. But, the structure that works best for you needs to be based on the type of site you run, not just on generic SEO advice. In this video you’ll see the permalink structures available, which one is right for you, and how to set them up properly. You’ll definitely want to watch this video if you plan to change permalink structures because some changes require you to create special redirects to your pages.
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