When running any website, you want to do everything you can to protect it. To start protecting your WordPress website, you should first make a backup of your WordPress database and your essential files (uploads, plugins, themes, etc.).

And do backups regularly in case of an emergency. If you make changes to your site frequently, I suggest doing backups daily or weekly. Without a current backup, you’re setting yourself up for potential website doom and failure. I shudder to think what could happen to your blog or website without one.

Why do I need a backup of my WordPress site?

Let me give you some scenarios as to why you should have a backup…

1. You’ve found this great WP plugin that’s going to take your website to the next level. You’ve installed and activated it. When all of a sudden, you’re receiving errors in your wp-admin area. Or you’re locked out of your own site. Now what? You’ll probably spend the next few hours…or days trying to figure out how to fix it.
2. You’ve been working with WordPress for awhile. You’re feeling confident enough to start making some changes to your WP theme. Or you add some special code someone told you to try. When “poof,” your WordPress site is blank. How the heck did that happen? Now you have to figure out how to undo what you just did.
3. It’s a bright sunny morning. You’ve had a few cups of coffee and you decide to spend some time reading your email. You find an email alert from Google Webmaster Tools stating that your site has been listed as suspicious and blocked. Holy cow! What does that mean? You go to Google and do a search for your domain name and you see this message, “This site may harm your computer.” You’re asking yourself, why does it say that? What on earth is Google talking about? My site isn’t dangerous. In reality, there’s something on your website that could potentially harm your visitors’ computers.
4. Then, your worst website nightmare comes true! You open up your website and the only thing you see is an ugly image of a skull and a message telling you, “You’ve been hacked. The Hacker Monster Ownz You!” You’re now in a panic. Your heart is racing. Your blood pressure is off the charts. You’re now screaming aloud, “Somebody help me!”

Everything will be okay…If you’ve made a backup of your WordPress database and your essential files. With your backup, you’ll be able to restore your website. If you haven’t backed up your website, please do it now! I can’t stress this enough. Without a current backup, you’d need to start all over. You’d lose all your hard work. You can’t afford to skip making a backup. You wouldn’t want to recreate your site all over again.

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Blogging has become become quite the fad with millions of new blogs being born daily. People seem to find great fulfillment in being able to express themselves to a worldwide audience at a low price or oftentimes at no price at all just by using the power of “blogging”. Yet even with this type of ease once in a while I’ll mention the potential of blogging to someone and they’ll respond with something like: “You mean I actually have to write something?!”

And those who have been blogging -even the experienced ones- occasionally catch cases of writer’s block where they cannot seem to think of one word to say despite their previous literary works of glory. So how does one keep the content flowing…and if you’re new then how can you come up with first award winning post?

It is my intention that by the end of this POST you will have the answer with the help of a few bloggers who have already figured it out

First up is James Pruitt of IMrelations.com/blog who wrote a nice introductory piece on creating content at Ms.Ileane’s BasicBlogTips blog:

Although written posts are a good thing to have, there are tons of people out there running successful blogs, with little or no writing at all.

Your blog is about content. You have to have it in order to be successful. But you don’t have to be typing away all the time in order to create really amazing blog content. Today, I want to explore content creation a bit deeper than just writing articles, which I frankly get bored with, and explore new ways to create blog content that doesn’t leave your fingers an aching mess..

James’s post provides the perfect response to the person who says “You mean I have to write something?!” which as you learn from reading the post that you don’t necessarily have to. In fact, James even gives a primer on providing audio content via podcasting:

You can talk your audiences ears off, and share tons of value with simple recordings. Audio is really popular and is an easy form of content creation, that you can master pretty easily. You can even start with loads of free sites and recording software, although you might need to..

Full article here…

Next up is something I found on Darren Rowse’s famous ProBlogger blog originally written by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics.com that does deal with writing. And though this type of writing is for “how to” posts (those articles that explain how to do a certain thing) the same concepts apply for just about any other type of post you can think of:

Great how-to blog posts have great content. But it’s never easy coming up with that content, which means you need to do a little research. Here’s a two-step process you can use to come up with ideas:

Visit your competitors’ blogs and see which posts generated a lot of comments and/or got shared a lot on the social web. You can put a list of headlines into a spreadsheet along with the number of retweets and Facebook “like” on each post.
Browse the trending topics on Tweetmeme, Google Trends, and Google News for the last week. Once you discover what people are after, start to think of topics that are related to the trending ones.

But don’t stop there. When you’ve got your idea nailed, read about a dozen articles and posts connected to your idea..

Neil also touches on one important aspect of using images that even I had not considered:

How-to blog posts by their nature are scannable because you are giving your readers steps to follow. But not everyone thinks that way or even designs it with that in mind..

Why are images important? Because that’s what people on the web prefer. Whether it is an image to open the post or a series of images throughout the post, images are much attractive to readers.

Another reason images are important is that for your readers who use a RSS reader to consume content, an image is more likely to get them to slow down as they scroll through their feeds..

Full article here…

Neil further briefly touches upon the important of headlines, but doesn’t go as in depth with it as Charlie Page owner of the Directory of Ezines does. Charlie approaches it from the angle of ad copy writing but isn’t a blog post title practically the same thing? Both have the duty of selling you something whether it be a product or a certain point of view:

When selling things on the Internet you have about three seconds to make your point or lose your visitor.

Click… BANG… they’re gone forever!

If your headlines are under-performing then it IS costing you sales. No doubt about it..

Full article here…

And just what method did I use to come up with this post?

The answer lies within content curation..

As you can see coming up with quality blog posts isn’t as hard as it may seem nor is it magical although once you put the above strategies in practice it will seem like magic to your readers…they will look upon you as creative geniuses and authorities of the subject they are most interested in. If you have any other ideas on coming up with awesome blog posts or just wish to give an inspiration word or two, by all means share in the comment section below!

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In this 2nd installment to Some Helpful Stuff from the Blogosphere I will be sharing some inspiring posts I recently read geared to help a fellow blogger EVOLVE.

First I’ll be starting with Darren Monroe’s blog and a phenomenon I frequently run into:

Why Your Family Doesn’t Understand This Make Money Online Stuff and Keeps Telling You To Get a Real JOb along with the Reasons Why Some iDiots become Millionaires:

And I bet what REALLY ticks you off is seeing someone make MILLIONS who is an admitted idiot. Come on lets be honest you know it does.

To some degree it is not them making money but the fact that you know God blessed you with talent. And in many ways more than the millionaire idiot. What makes it even worst is if the millionaire is a obnoxious, conceited, arrogant know it all. In other words he is Aggressively Sharing Stupidity (ASS). But of course we know that doesn’t exist in the online information entrepreneur world right? (joking of course)

So why don’t your friends and family understand and WHY does the millionaire triumph?

..See it would be easy to say that your friends and family are negative. But ‘ really not the core of their issue. And remember its THEIR ISSUE NOT YOURS. The better you can understand WHY they are doing what they’re doing. The greater you overstand the power of their words. The less they will be able to influence you and your judgment.

The core issue is that many if not most of us were taught to accept less in our lives. By our parents, teachers, and the whole system..

And being that I’m not about accepting less leads me to “overstand” that your blog/site should always be on the road to evolving into something that provides more value, so you might want to check Tia’s Famous Bloggers guest post(her second time making it in this installment!) and learn:

How To Gracefully Change Directions With Your Blog:

When it’s time to change directions, don’t do it suddenly. We as readers (myself included) are so fickle; sometimes our only real loyalty is to our RSS reader. When we see something that interests us, we go check it out. Don’t assume that your readers are eagerly visiting your blog daily, waiting for the next new thing. If you change suddenly, you may never, ever get a visit from that reader again.

Instead, change directions gracefully. The definition of grace, by freedictionary.com, is..

And if you truly do want to evolve your blog then you will naturally be on the lookout for DiTesco’s list:

The Best SEO Tools, SEO WordPress Plugins For 2011

If you really are serious about your SEO, remember that the most important “human” factor is to make it happen (action, action, action..). These plugins automate some tasks that can help and save you time. They won’t however guarantee top rankings but will help to get you there. And when you get there (which I’m sure you will), keep it there. SEO is an ongoing process and your rankings can drop very quickly if you don’t do anything about it. Think of it this way, There is always someone who is competing with you. Hard true fact!

So, have I missed anything? Are you familiar with all these plugins? How do you like them and have you noticed any difference after using them?

All in all you need to understand that it is definitely possible for you become successful using internet marketing, but only you MUST make that first move which is to:

Engage The Blogoshere

Out of all the lessons, one that stands out is interacting within the blogosphere of your particular niche. This not only builds backlinks for the search engines to rank you better, but also increases your learning pace and build real relationships with those within your industry or niche. In the brick-n-mortar business world the term for this is “networking”.

One good way to do all of the above is to join a service that already connects the blogs in your niche and..

We as Sentient Beings experiencing this thing called LIFE must understand that the very word LIFE involves a state of constant motion which can either go in an upward direction or spiral down. Therefore, we must always be on the move improving our current conditions and shun the negative voices out of our heads!

Take a blade of grass for example: how can you truly judge it when it is always in a constant state of growth

The very second you look at it and attempt to gauge its length it has already grown. Although this seems to escape the physical eye, nevertheless growth is still taking place so don’t put too much stock into what other eyes see of you and your striving for evolution.

May this post help you find your way in the Blogoshpere,

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To say a thing is “sticky” is to say it stays attached to something…it sticks to a thing like glue.

Wouldn’t it be great if your marketing message got stuck into the minds of your readers so that whenever they thought of a certain product or service (that you just happen to promote) they immediately think of you!?

Well that would be “Nirvana” -the ultimate state of bliss- for any content writer, but especially for marketers because a marketer’s overall objective is for his/her particular marketing messages to be remembered at every corner, turn, nook, and cranny…they need sure fire methods to make their content stick to the minds of their targeted audience.

Here are 3 of the many methods you can use:

1. Actually write content worthy of being remembered.Write in a way that causes the reader to think and visualize the satisfaction that comes from selecting your recommended product or service. Be sure to end your writing with some type of open ended question/thought in order to provoke them to respond by either  immediately buying, leaving a comment, or both…but you at least want them to comment.People usually remember things that made them think deeply enough to openly comment on. Plus, once you start getting these comments others will take notice under the assumption that it must be “worthy” if someone else took the time to comment. These comments psychologically set up a positive frame within the minds of your audience for all of your future messages as well. Thus, you and your content become “stuck” in their heads.(More tips on this method can be found over at BizChickBlogs)
2. Use WordPress’s post-editor to your advantage. While in your admin area’s post-writing or editing mode look for the option to the top right underneath ‘Visibilty‘ labeled ‘Stick this post to the front page’. Selecting this option makes that post (or any excerpt thereof) stay in the top position on on your home page’s Recent Posts regardless of how many newer posts you post thereafter so visitors will always see it prominently.This why on some blogs you may have noticed an older post or two displayed their newest posts on their home pages. They deliberately want you to pay extra attention to the older post near the very top. HINT: It also helps to delete the date from the post
3. Design a section above the fold underneath your header or in the top sidebar of your site containing 3 to 5 posts you want to remain “sticky”. You can name it Top Posts, favorite Posts, Featured Posts, etc. The main thing on this is that it will be displayed as sitewide links meaning it’ll pretty much be on every page throughout your site subconsciously sticking to the minds of your visitors.Some examples of this can be seen on Most Popular Articles@Dennis’s blog , Must Read Articles@Ben’s blog, and Freddie’s Featured Posts and Content. Being an advocate of my own advice, I made a section called My Sticky Secrets right here on msb (MarketSecrets.Biz).

There are various other ways for making your site sticky such as allowing others to share your content by passing along free reports like the free and sticky SuperTips ebook or even paid methods such as using press releases and AdBrite’s  interstitial ads – which I’ll expand upon in a future post. The important thing is to get your content seen by as many eyeballs as possible for as many times as possible.

OK…now that i have shared my sticky secrets, what’s yours

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Blogging is a thing I enjoy greatly and being a netrepreneur constantly drives me to scour through the blogosphere for intriguing posts…especially posts that match my current level of understanding on a particular subject I am interested in. The other morning I found such a post on the highly successful Problogger.net blog which deals with 9 truths about making money online.

It begins by painting often hyped up pictures of lavish livings and luxuries attained by a would-be internet entrepreneur – or as prefer to call “netrepreneur” – that I am sure you’ve heard by now if you’ve been on the internet for a while. Then the author makes an abrupt 180 degree turn with the subject matter and actually tells 9 hard-nosed, not so lavish, unadulterated truths. One which rang a particularly strong  resonance for me was:

“You’ll Fail More Than You Succeed…”

…although I tend to view these “failings” as the required feedback needed for modifying your strategies in order to get the results you’re after, but nevertheless, this is a reality you must come to terms with as opposed to the 6th Truth which one might find difficult to come to terms with.

But there is one frustrating factor I did not see on the list which brings us to a 10th truth: The Internet Moves Fast. Fast meaning the quick pace of evolving and ever changing information and technology on the net.

It seems as though just when you have finally understood one particular ideology or method, then up comes another one or an upgraded version of the previous one which without you’d be left behind like some caveman traveling barefoot while others speed pass you in their Ferrari’s.

I have experienced this time and time again whether it was with pay per click marketing, article marketing, or SEO. You have to maintain the attitude/mind of a student at all times and be quick at implementing your learnings so you’ll always be ready for that next level. And in the classroom of making money online it doesn’t pay to be a “C” student, you have to shoot for the honor roll and stay there!

Hmmm…with the above in mind, perhaps the 6th Truth is not so hard to come to terms with after-all:

“Some People Just Won’t Make It…”

Now I know that sound like a slap in the face for all the hard work involved with making money online (HARD WORK ironically being the first Truth!), yet unfortunately it is a Truth that can be applied to almost any endeavor in life.

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A lot of people weblog. Actually, there are a lot more bloggers on the market now than ever ahead of. What looks to fascinate many about blogging and site-building is that it can really become a profession, believe it or not. Nevertheless, just sitting down at your personal computer and typing isn’t heading to produce you rich. So how do you make a living blogging? There are numerous things you’ll be able to do that may support. Here, even though, are a handful of suggestions which will get you began and demonstrate you how you can turn running a blog right into a effective profession.

First of all, you must use a website as a way to make income from a weblog. You’ll find quite a few sites in existence that will set you up with a blog for either a cost or a portion of your marketing proceeds. If you are absolutely serious about producing writing a blog your career, then you need to think about not using these services. If you’re proceeding to try for making funds in Viral Submitter Pro blog, then it would make sense to share the income with as couple of persons or solutions as possible. Instead, start out your special web site and keep the funds.

You may pay out a monthly hosting cost, but if you’re severe about blog you know that this cash will likely be regarded a business expense as if you had been to rent a storefront for a clothing shop or a thing similar. So your very first step in turning blog right effective job have to include things like beginning a webpage and executing so on your special internet site.

Secondly, you will need to determine how you are heading to derive purchases out of your website. You will find several methods to try and do just that. The simplest and maybe most popular way is usually to use some type of marketing. Many of the search engines like google as well as other products and services around the web will place ads on the blog site and then pay out you for just about every time an individual clicks on one of the advertisements. A different method to do it is to market anything out of your web site and use the webpage to provide in customers.

Or, inside a equivalent strategy, advertise someone else’s product on your internet site after which it get some type of commission from that particular person. No matter which system you use, or even if it really is one more tactic you arrive up with on your personal, you’ll need to uncover a source of purchases if you are planning to create running a blog in to a successful occupation.

Third, when you could have a method to make dollars off the weblog, you would like to acquire persons for the web site. The key to most something that happens on the web is to drive traffic for a internet site. No subject what, regardless of whether you are applying an ad program or promoting a solution, web dollars can be a game of percentages. You want to draw as some people as conceivable in your website. The bigger the overall wide variety of hits your web page gets is the lower percentage of those clicks which have to be profitable you’ll need.

So how do you draw targeted traffic? They important is, to turn a phrase, keywords and phrases. You would like content with your internet site which is heading to bring targeted traffic from search engines like google to you as much as conceivable. You will find quite a few ways to try and do this: by means of software package programs developed to locate the very best viral submitter pro review key phrases, internet sites that execute a comparable support, or just coming up with them on your own and crossing your fingers. No issue the way you decide on to accomplish it, however, just bare in mind which you can’t turn blog in to a prosperous career without getting men and women for a website.

Blogging and site-building can definitely be exciting, but what if you wish to turn that fun suitable profit? There are hundreds of folks around who have turned running a blog into a productive job. It really is a great strategy to make money from property doing what you would like, if you want. However, you can find some things you’ll need to think about previous to diving into a running a blog profession. Firstly, you need to get yourself a weblog, definitely. Following, choose the way you are planning to create income from that website. Then, lastly, work difficult to drive traffic for your web page. Recall, online is usually a game of numbers and percentages so promote and update your blog as often as achievable.

Find important information about traffic to website – make sure to study the publication. The time has come when proper info is truly only one click away, use this opportunity.

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