The start of new-year must be very interesting for all you people but I would like to give all the Word Press users an important advice. There has been a lot of problems with Word Press users that incase of crash of the application the whole content of your website is lost as there is no proper back up for these things. So this New Year I want all the Word Press users make sure that they don’t lose any of their data.

The first thing you need to do is to create the back up of your database from the date where you have published/posted the most important contents or documents. So you might be thinking how to create a solution for this as word press doesn’t have this feature inbuilt with it.

So now all u people are lucky as there is a word press plugin for these as a solution for solving this problem. The name of the plugin is the WordPress Database Backup Plugin. You can download this plugin using this link. In this you can tell the word press when to back up and to back up from where to where and what all things to be done.

There are two other folders you want to backup. The first is your theme folder to make sure you have a backup copy of any customizations you may have made. The second is your uploads directory so that, if you need to change hosts or if things get deleted, you have copies of all the images. This way, your blog doesn’t have a bunch of broken files.

You need to be able to automate an FTP job. If you’re a skilled programmer, there are lots of ways to skin this cat. If your programming lacks some mojo, there are options: for Windows, use Syncback SE; for Mac, use AASync. Set up a scheduled job (one for each folder) and create a copy on your hard drive. I like to use my file server instead of my desktop so I don’t have to worry about leaving it on.

Lastly, to bring things full circle, if you have lots of data or critical data, it’s important to have an offsite backup. I move all of my files to my file server every night. I have Carbonite running on that server so everything has an offsite backup. Lastly, just to make sure things are functioning, set a once a moth reminder for yourself to check that your backups are running. Sometimes things break and the time to know about it is before the crisis. A once-a-month check is easy enough to do and give you a lot more peace of mind.

SEO (search engine optimisation) is not a function. SEO is a process. This SEO process takes shape over a long period of time. It takes its due time to evolve and start showing some results. For genuine, long-term SEO benefits, there are no short cuts. And there is a reason behind it.

The search engines appreciate the effort you put into building your content. They not only want to present the latest (and relevant, of course) content to their users, they also want to present content that is constantly updated/upgraded. If you were a searcher looking for information on say, Google, would you prefer a page that was created 6 months ago or a page that was created last week?

The following steps, in big or small ways, affect your SEO campaign:

• Highly relevant content, strategically written
• Lots of highly relevant content
• Quality inbound links
• One-to-one networking
• Fully optimised source code
• Intuitive, obstruction-less interlinking
• Constant analysis of your search engine positioning

Among these, creating a website with efficient coding practices might not take too much time. But creating content, creating enough buzz to get inbound links and networking takes up lots of time. The website may take over 5-6 weeks to just start appearing at some 200th odd place. It depends on how well you’ve optimised and what’s the degree of competition you face for the selected keywords.

Another factor that takes up lots of time is the chance that you may update intermittently. Such changes are bound to take place as you constantly improve your web pages and your content. Once you make changes, they take a long time to get reflected on the search engine results pages.

SEO may seem like a tedious process in the beginning, but once you cross the threshold and see the result for yourself, the experience is a very rewarding.