There is a little plug in for your Word Press blog that allows you to set it up so that a complete back

up of your blog is emailed to you EVERY NIGHT.

You can have this back up file emailed to a Gmail account and have a rule set so it automatically goes

into a separate folder so you never even think about it coming in or see it coming in.

How To Back Up Your Word Press Blog

 Get this plug in called the Word Press Database Backup:
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup

or you can install it directly from your Word press Dashboard.
Install it, choose to email every day, and give it an email address.

How To Restore Your Blog

    1.  Go to your cpanel for your site, scroll down until you find MyPhpAdmin.

     2.  Find the database that your blog is installed on.  The backup files that are sent

to you from WP-DB-Backup will have the same name as the database that you need to recover.

     3.  Click on the tab that says import at the top of the new screen that just opened.

     4.  Click on choose file and find the backup file that you are going to use to restore your blog.

Complete details are here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

If you take couple of minutes to do this now, you can relax knowing that your work will be protected.

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 1.  I was born in Wroclaw Poland
 2.  Moved to the USA when I was 14 years old
 3.  Did not speak a word of English
 4.  Learned English from my trusty English/Polish dictionary
     that was my constant companion to communicate with others
 5.  Gratulated High School
 6.  Went on to acquire a Business Degree
 7.  Decided to get married
 8.  Was married for 20 plus years
 9.  Have 2 daughters
10.  Have 1 grandson and 2 granddaughters
11.  Got divorced
12.  Always had a hunger for spiritual things
13.  Experienced a awesome encounter with God in 1990
14.  Read my bible every day
15.  Worked in a corporate world
16.  Economy went downhill and I lost my job
17.  Always dreamed about having an Internet business
18.  In the last couple of years tried several Internet businesses
     but only found myself deeper in debt
19.  Found Alex Jeffreys coaching
20.  Beginning to have a clear vision where my future is heading
21.  Like reality shows (Big Brother)
22.  Like listening to christian music
23.  Love to cook home made meals
24.  Hate exercising
25.  But I do it because it’s good for me, that’s what they tell me 

Now my job is to tagg 5 people to post 25 things about themselves:

Traver Jones

Carol Harridge

Lee Leebermann

John Tanner

David Monk

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As Internet Marketers we are always looking so som cool free tools to use.
Here is a list of some of the best tools you can get for free. Check out all of these tools and feel free to make a comment and let me know if you have some free tools that you love.

Google Analytics – Probably one of the most important tools you can have as a website owner. This will allow you to track everything about your site. You can see how many visitors you have had, how long they stayed, what site they came from, what site they left on, and so much more. An absolutely essential tool!

Keyword Difficulty Check Tool – When you are trying to figure out which niche to blog about, you can use this tool to check how stiff the competition will be in that niche.

Cam Studio – Free software that lets you record a video of what you are doing on your screen. Remember that video that I made yesterday? I used this program to create it and I didn’t spend a dime to make it. I highly recommend it!.

Comment Kahuna – This is probably the coolest free tool that I have found. Basically you type in a keyword like “internet marketing”, select that you are looking for a WordPress blog, and click go. This will find a ton of blogs that are talking about the keyword you specified. It will also tell you if the blog is Follow or NoFollow and it will give you the blog’s pagerank (how relevant Google thinks it is). You can then go around finding high Page Rank blogs that allow Following and comment on them. This will allow readers of that blog to find your site and it will also make Google think your site is more popular. This is probably the most used traffic generation tool in my arsenal.

The Link Popularity Checker – This will allow you to see how many other sites are linking to your site. You can also compare your site alongside two other similar sites if you’d like. It’s a great way to check what is necessary to climb the ranks of Google.

Open Office – This is like Microsoft Office but free, and in my opinion, better. You basically have programs similar to Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and more. It is great when it’s time to make an ebook because the program similar to Word allows you to save your document as a PDF file (With all of your hyperlinks intact).

Blinkweb – Very similar to Weebly. You can quickly create a website and they will keep it hosted for you.

Picnik – This site allows you to quickly and easily resize images so that they fit better on your webpage.

Weebly – You can use this site to quickly and easily create a free webpage on any topic that you’d like. The web address will end up looking like yournich.weebly.com. It’s actually a really great, free, web site creation and hosting tool.

Tweetlater – This site allows you to set up Twitter so that you can autofollow anyone who follows you. It also allows you to schedule tweets. If you are about to promote a new product, you can preschedule a series of tweets about your product and it will post them throughout the day.

BrowserShots – This site lets you see what your website will look like in pretty much any other browser out there. This is an important tool to make sure that your site looks as good to everyone else as it does to you.

FileZilla – The best ftp program out there. This will allow you access to your server’s FTP so that you can manually upload and download files from your server.

Survey Monkey – Create surveys and polls to gather information about users and site visitors. A great tool if you are trying to figure out what your audience really wants.

MindMeister – This is a recently discovered tool for me. You can create mindmaps for any ideas that you might have. Over the last three days, I have created mind maps for every one of my blog posts and I have laid out an entire 18 month business plan. Once you get goin, the mind starts flowin… (I just made that up. Cheesy right?)

Online Stopwatch – It is exactly what it sounds like. I use this a productivity tool. It has a count down timer as well. I set the countdown for 60 minutes of work. When times up, I take a 15 minute break before getting back to it. It’s been amazing for my productivity.

Hope you find these tools useful and if you have some that you love, feel free to post in comments.

I need to give some credit to Matt Wolfe  for this list as well.

Talk soon,

Jeanette

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Now that you installed your plugins I will walk you

through Google Analytics set up.

Go to http://www.google.com/support/analytics/ and

sign up for a free account.

Go through the step by step instructions  in Getting Started Guide.

Install google analytics on your website by getting a HTML code

from google, follow directions on google’s site.

If you installed the Google Analyticator  plugin on your blog,

then you do not have to do anything else.  You can submit as many

websites as you like to have google track your traffic for you.

Remember, stay FOCUSED,  don’t let things distract you from

your task of building a business on line.  We get all kinds of distracting,

enticing emails, telling us of the next greatest thing that’s coming out and

that creates information overload and we just don’t move forward.

I did that for several years and never got anywhere, until I connected

with Alex Jeffereys coaching, now I have a clear picture where I’m going

so those email do not entice me as much as they used to.

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Now that you have your domain name picked out and hosting set up, it’s time to set up your WordPress blog.

The reason we are using WordPress is because it’s on your domain and your hosting account so now it belongs

to you. I also recommend that you purchase your domain from one company and your hosting from another.

You will be pretty safe if one of them would get shut down.

Ok,  so now you have a hosting company with a cpanel, so log in to your cpanel and look for a blue smiley face

(Fantastical), click on that icon and you are able to upload your WordPress with one click.

Now you name your blog, something that is relevant to the purpose of you blogging.

Installing plugins is next, by having plugins your blog will be much more efficient.

Just log in to your blog dashboard and click on plug in menu on the left side, drop down will open then you

click on add new, add name of the plugin and click install, once installed just click the link to activate it.

1. Google HML Sitemaps – helps Google to find your site

2. Post Plugin Library – this plug in is necessary if you want Popular Posts Plugin and Related Posts Plugins to work.

3. Askimet – spam blocker

4. CommentLuv – promotes commenting on your site, people that comment will get a link back to their latest blog post.

5. Google Analyticator – this plug in keeps track of your traffic and once you set up your account with Google Analytics

this plug in will activate automatically, no need to install codes.

6. Platinum SEO Pack – this will help you with the search engines, they will notice you fast.

7. Popular Posts – this puts a side bar widget on your blog that lists your most popular posts.

8. Sociable – this plugin puts icons at the bottom of your post so people can promote your site to their favorite Web 2.0 site.

9. WP To Twitter – this links your blog to Twitter, every time you make a post it sends a link to Twitter.

10. Yet Another Related Posts – it puts a list of related posts at the bottom of each individual post.

Once you install all the plugins you will want to make your blog look pretty, my next post will be on how to install themes

for your blog.

One tit bit for this blog post, I came across a cool site http://mylivesignature.com on that website you can create a

signature that looks like a handwritten signature. If you always wandered how they did that, well take a look

 at that site and get your own signature, and it’s free.

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