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WP Dolly Pro Now Automated

WP Dolly Pro now has automatic(schedule) WordPress backups to Amazon S3, Dropbox, Your Server and Email(database only).

Adding the ability to schedule backups is a huge benefit in backing up your WordPress site/blog. Set your scheduled backups, hourly, daily, weekly or monthly to Amazon S3, Dropbox, Server or Email.

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WordPress Copy WP Dolly Pro

After 7 months of development, WP Dolly Pro, a WordPress copy/cloner plugin has been released.

After being really disappointed with the cloners on the market, I decided to create my own. But traveling that path looking for a cloner that was simple and easy to use, was not easy to find, I discovered that there are many so-called cloners available, but most were just difficult to use, especially when they claimed “one click” simplicity.

The popular cloners require too many steps to get the job done. They want you to…

  • upload a settings PHP file to your server
  • then call that file through your browser (ex: http://mysite.com/settingsfile.php)
  • create the clone and download to your computer
  • then upload that “clone” and another clone PHP file to the server where you want the clone
  • and then call the file through your browser, just to complete the cloning process.

Plus, in most cases, you need a fresh install of WordPress on the target server, before you can even start cloning. When I saw this, I thought about how people new to the internet(newbies) would handle this. The answer is that they would have great difficulty in getting the job done.

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WordPress Themes

Heading TagsWhen creating a WordPress theme, it is important to provide inbuilt SEO. Most designers just get it wrong, but claim their themes are search engine optimized. The most fundamental seo strategy, is to provide the correct H tag layout.

The home page h1 tag needs to be for the site title. Page/post titles need to be h1, NOT the site title. 95% of WordPress themes do not follow this simple strategy. StudioPress themes follow this rule and are quite successful with it.

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WordPress Video Tutorials

WordPress video tutorials are now on offer. I have added 12 basic WordPress video tutorials for newbies(beginners) who want to learn about how to use WordPress. These tutorials are free, but a quick registration is required. To view my basic WordPress video tutorials, please signup here.

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SEO Facts & Fiction

SEO Facts and FictionThere is a ton of advice/articles out there about SEO. Unfortunately most of it is either out-dated and/or fiction and written by so-called “experts”.

I have listed here some SEO facts and fiction to help you optimize your website or WordPress blog.

  • Keyword meta tags are dead. Google ignores them.
  • Text decorating(bold, italics & underline) is a complete waste of time.
  • Use tags for posts, as they are the new keywords.
  • Use keywords(tags) as anchor text links in posts that link to other pages within your site.
  • Use alt tags on images that are descriptive and describes the image. Don’t stuff keywords(tags) into them.
  • Speed up you site. Google will be penalizing sites that load slow. If you are using WordPress, then the best caching plugin, IMHO, is W3 Total Cache.
  • Always reference your quotes.
  • Avoid article directories to draw content to your site.
  • A good SEO plugin for WordPress is WordPress SEO by Yoast.
  • Use tags(h1,h2 and so on) for titles.

People need to understand that there is no magic system to SEO. SEO is a lot of hard work and needs to be handled by experts. One WordPress plugin that makes outrageous claims about SEO is seopressor, by Daniel Tan, please avoid it, at all costs.

When it comes to SEO, we need to proceed with caution. Beware also, that SEO is costly, by experts, anyway. If it seems to be good to be true, then avoid it. There are no shortcuts in SEO.

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Removing Bad Bots .htaccess

If you need to stop bad bots from scrapping your site, the best way to achieve this is to use .htaccess directives. Everyone, whether human or robot, must go through the .htaccess file. Some users use the robots.txt file to do this, but some bots just ignore it, even Google has been known to ignore the robots.txt file.

Using the following rewrite conditions at the end of your .htaccess will stop them in their tracks.

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WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It's often customized into a Content Management System (CMS). It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites.
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides storage through web services interfaces (REST, SOAP, and BitTorrent). Amazon launched S3, its first publicly-available web service, in the United States in March 2006 and in Europe in November 2007.
Dropbox is a Web-based file hosting service operated by Dropbox, Inc. that uses cloud storage to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization. It was founded in 2007 by MIT graduates Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi as a Y Combinator startup.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or unpaid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results.
Internet bots, also known as web robots, WWW robots or simply bots, are software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet.
In several web servers (most commonly Apache), .htaccess (hypertext access) is the default name of a directory-level configuration file that allows for decentralized management of web server configuration.