Feb 26, 20099

What Would You Do If Somehow You Lost all Your Blog’s Content?

Categories: Tech Tips
What Would You Do If Somehow You Lost all Your Blog’s Content?
I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else but this morning  my blog Tips and Tricks HQ somehow disappeared from the face of this earth! The day started as usual... I woke up in the morning went to my office and started checking my emails and found out that I received an email from SiteUptime (SiteUptime is a website monitoring service that checks your website at regular intervals and notifies you via email or SMS if it becomes unavailable) telling me that my site is down. So naturally I wanted to check if the site is up now. When I entered the site address in the address bar I got the following screen! [caption id="attachment_959" align="alignnone" width="444" caption="WordPress Blog Setup Screen"][/caption] You can probably imagine that at this point I was pretty scared! I always backup my database and WordPress files regularly so I wasn't completely in the water but what about all the articles that I have posted after the last backup? Not to mention the traffic that I am loosing now! Anyway, in my case the damage wasn't that severe. One of my WordPress database tables 'wp_options' was marked as crashed and I was getting the following error that I recovered from ...
Jan 24, 20095

How to Create and Display Favicon to Make Your Site Stand Out in The Pile of Bookmarks

Categories: Blog Setup
How to Create and Display Favicon to Make Your Site Stand Out in The Pile of Bookmarks
Favicons are a great way to make your site stand out from the crowd. It is also very easy to implement too. In this post I have explained how you can easily make a favicon and use it on your site. What is Favicon? Favicon is short for favorites icon. This is the icon that shows up on the left side of the browser's address bar. Favicon is also known as bookmark icon, website icon, url icon or shortcut icon. Size of a favicon is 16x16 pixels. How to Make a Favicon Easily in Photoshop In Photoshop open a new file (make sure the image size is 16 x 16 Pixels). Design your favicon. You can either start from scratch, use a picture, or a section of a picture. Note: The image size is rather small so I advise not to use a picture with a lot of graphic content. Save the favicon you created as 'favicon.ico' (you can save the image as .png or .jpg and then rename it to .ico) You can even use MS Paint to make favicons too... all you have to make sure is that the image size is 16x16 pixels and the filename is 'favicon.ico'. How to Use Favicon on Your Site? Adding a ...
Jan 19, 200943

Top 15 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques I Forget to do

Categories: Featured, SEO
Top 15 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques I Forget to do
Search Engine Optimization is a very hot topic in the World Wide Web. After all, everybody wants to rank higher and come up on the first page of Google search and get more traffic. I have identified and made a list of top 15 SEO practices that I tend to forget quite often. These simple SEO techniques if practiced properly can make a significant difference as to how my pages are ranked in the Search Engine Queries. Use rel="nofollow" tag on low value links to not pass the page rank juice. For example 'Read the rest of the entry', 'About', 'Contact' etc. Use proper anchor text for interlinks. Don’t use 'here' or 'there'. Optimize the images, always create alt tags and write description in the alt tag. Use search engine friendly permalinks. Make sure the URLs do not have '&', '?', '!' etc characters. Use hyphens (-) between words to improve readability. Do not use underscores (_), use hyphens (-) instead. Do not use session id in URLs. Use sticky posts. Use tag clouds. Have a category description paragraph. Let the visitors subscribe to category specific RSS feed. (Use category specific RSS plugin for WordPress) Use internal linking when possible and appropriate. Use sub-directories rather than sub-domains when possible. Sub-domains do not share ...
Jan 9, 20092

How Many Advertisements Should be Used per Page on a Website?

Categories: Blog Setup
How Many Advertisements Should be Used per Page on a Website?
Many webmasters can't resist the temptation of putting more ad units on the web page to multiply the revenue generated from advertisements. A recent survey conducted by BurstMedia where over 4,000 web users participated revealed that: Ad clutter is not tolerated by web site visitors – many web users abandon a site they believe to be cluttered. Ad clutter can negatively impact a consumers’ perception of an advertiser’s product or service. 
Jan 2, 20093

How to Create WordPress blog posts and pages (Video Tutorial)

Categories: Blog Setup
How to Create WordPress blog posts and pages (Video Tutorial)
This post is aimed at the WordPress beginners who are looking for a tutorial on how to create a WordPress post with video instructions. How to Create a post in WordPress Creating a post in WordPress is really simple. Login to the WordPress dashboard by visiting www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin Click on ‘Add New’ from the ‘Posts’ menu once you are inside the WordPress admin panel There are four main and important sections in a post that you should fill in before publishing the post The post title Post content Tags Categories Give the post a nice title. Add the post content in the content section. Add relevant tags for this post. Add the post to the relevant category (Create a category if a relevant category doesn’t exist). Publish the post by hitting the 'Publish' button. Few Post Editing How Tos To add a more tag in the post just position the cursor at the appropriate place then click on the 'Insert More Tag' To create a header text just select the text then chose the desired Heading style To insert bulleted list just click on the Ordered List button To add the post to a Category just tick the desired category from the categories list If a relevant category doesn't exist then click on the 'Add New Category' and add it To add ...
Dec 22, 200827

List of the Best and Must Use WordPress Plugins

Categories: Blog Setup, Featured, Wordpress Plugin
List of the Best and Must Use WordPress Plugins
This page has a list of some of the best and must use WordPress Plugins. Check out this list and find out which plugins you should be using to improve your blogging efficiency. Must Use Plugins Akismet - best guard against comment spam for WordPress blog! All in One SEO Pack - Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. WordPress Database Backup - This plugin is a life saver when things go wrong! It allows on-demand backup of your WordPress database. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Google XML Sitemaps - This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search. Blog Statistics Related Google Analytics for WordPress - This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog. WordPress.com Stats - Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. This plugin requires a WordPress.com API key to function. Blog Security LoginLockdown - Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed WordPress login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. ...
Dec 15, 200811

How to Install WordPress on Your Blog (Instructions with Screenshots)

Categories: Wordpress
How to Install WordPress on Your Blog (Instructions with Screenshots)
This is a quick WordPress Installation guide with screen shots to get your blog up and running quickly. After reading this WordPress Installation guide you will know exactly how you can install WordPress quickly on your Blog in Four easy steps. A detailed WordPress Installation Instruction can be found at WordPress.org. I install WordPress frequently for my friends and myself and I find the detailed installation instructions on WordPress.org to contain too much details for me, so I needed a cut down and more common version of WordPress installation instructions and hence the birth of this post. This WordPress installation instruction mainly takes into account the most common web hosting solution example (e.g. access to 'cPanel'). I install WordPress this way because it allows me to work on concurrent installation related tasks at the same time (e.g. Add database while the WrodPress files are being uploaded to my server) resulting in a reduced total WordPress install time. Step 1: Transfer the WordPress files to your web server Download and unzip the latest WordPress package from WordPress Download Page. Upload the WordPress files (all the directories and files that is inside the extracted WordPress Directory) to the root directory (In most cases this will be the ...
Dec 13, 200853

How do I Start a Blog and Make Money Online?

Categories: Blog Setup, Featured, Make Money
How do I Start a Blog and Make Money Online?
This is a step by step and easy to follow guide that will help you setup your own blog from the start. This guide is not to motivate someone to start blogging. It is best suited for someone who already made the decision to start a blog and needs some step by step direction of the whole process. This guide is not complete yet. I will be writing and publishing the bits and pieces of how to start a blog from scratch and make money online over the next few months as time permits. Who Should Use This Guide? This guide is intended for anyone who is looking for an answer to any of the following questions. how do I setup a blog? how to blog? how to start a blog? Getting started Blog Setup Getting a good domain name Getting a cheap and reliable web hosting solution Setup WordPress on your Blog Selecting a nice theme for your WordPress Blog Things to know when selecting a theme What WordPress Plugins to use Creating your blog posts Creating your blog pages Establishing your blog Writing content Promoting/finding reader Site Optimization Search Engine Optimization (SEO) WordPress Optimization Tips and Tricks for Better Performance and Speed Plugins to Speed Up Your WordPress Site Web Analytics 101 – Learn Which Analytics Data You Should ...
Dec 11, 200815

Good Domain Name Picking Tips for Your Blog Setup

Categories: Web Hosting
Good Domain Name Picking Tips for Your Blog Setup
The first thing that comes to my mind when setting up a blog is getting a good domain name. In this article, I have described why I think it is important to choose a good domain name upfront. I have also explained how you can pick a good domain name for your blog or website followed by some domain name picking tips and general outlines ("dos" and "don't s"). Why pick a good domain name for your blog Apart from many other reasons, you want to pick a good domain name for your blog site from the start because most likely you will be stuck with that domain name for the rest of the blog's life. You may change the domain hosting provider from time to time depending on how reliable your current domain hosting provider is but the domain name will remain the same. The reason I say that you will be stuck with that name is mainly because changing the domain name is kind of like starting all over again from the start and you don't want to do that once your site is established and getting regular traffic. You will start with '0' Google Page rank and will have ...
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