How to Back up WordPress

 

I have found the easiest way to back up my WordPress blogs and websites is by using an incredibly little program developed by Jason Fladlien and Wilson Mattos called WP Twin.

Take a look at how it works here.

WP Twin WordPress Cloning Program

 

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Why Use WordPress for your Small Business Website

Why Use WordPress for your Small Business Website is a common question asked of webdesigners. It is the best content management system at the present time and is easy to use even for a person who knows nothing about having a website.

The WordPress Content Management System is the best system for your new and improved website for these reasons.

  1. WordPress doesn’t have to look like a blog, and it provides a way for you to manage your content and update your website effortlessly. You can manage everything yourself, just point and click and edit your own content, publish new content easily without waiting for your web developer.
  2. WordPress has so many plugins so that you can easily add new functionality to your website as your business grows and your needs change.
  3. Google loves WordPress websites. WordPress SEO plugins makes it easy to optimize your pages for the search engines. That means your site is more likely to land on the first page of Google results, which means people are more likely to find you.
  4. With WordPress as your website content system, you have both a website and a blog all in one. Blog are a great way to build traffic to your website. Again Google loves websites that frequently add new content, and having a blog on your website allows you to easily add new content as often as you want.
  5. Videos are the number one selling point for potential clients at this time and YouTube is the second most used search engine after Google. If you do not have videos on your website you are losing a large number of potential clients. WordPress has several plugins that make it easy to add video to your website.
  6. There are plugings that allow your visitor to easily recommend you to their Facebook and Twitter friends. That will increase you visibility to a wider audience.
  7. WordPress allows you to add a form to sign up for your newsletter so that you can keep in touch with present clients and with potential future clients.  In this manner your list would see the value of your services. There are easy to use plugins that make this integration with your list building software seamless.
  8. Education for your visitors. With WordPress you can blog as often as you want, offering advice and good education. Regularly publishing quality articles and content to your website gives Google more content to crawl, and provides value to your web site visitors as well as improving search engine optimization.

If you are concerned with growing your business and finding new clients that would benefit from your products and services, and would like to be sure to maintain contact with your present clients so that you can offer your new products and services to them, WordPress is the best format for your website.

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Why use WordPress for your Website

Now it is not necessary to have your webmaster do all of your updates. You can do changes yourself with WordPress.

Have you ever said this?

  • Why can’t I upgrade my website myself?
  • I want to make some changes on my website, but I don’t want to have to pay my webmaster for such a small update.
  • Why does it have to be so hard to update my website?
  • I want a website for my company, but it is just too hard.
  • I don’t understand HTML, but I want to design my own website?

WordPress is the answer. It is one of the most popular blogging tools available and you can have a website or a blog or both using WordPress. WordPress is FREE and it has lots of power for individuals or small to medium sized businesses looking for an easy way to manage their web site.

WordPress has lots of themes to help you design you website or blog easily and has many tools to help you upgrade your content or add new content without resorting to calling your webmaster.

You don’t really have to be experienced to use WordPress on your website. Most internet hosting companies provide the ability to install WordPress on your site with a single click of the mouse. Making changes to your site once it is launched is as easy as using your word processing program.

Any the best part, is that the search engines love WordPress so SEO is easily done. If you add the plugin All in One SEO Pack, you can fine tune each post so keywords will appear in title tags and description tags.

With all of the plugins and themes available, WordPress is the easiest way yet to have and maintain a website or blog.

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What is a blog?

A blog is a type of website that is easy to use for the person who does not know HTML. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

Most blogs allow visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs. They are popular because they are so easy to maintain and update on a regualr basis.

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