How to Backup WordPress

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If you have a WordPress website then you need to make sure you backup the website data just incase something goes wrong.

What to Backup in WordPress

WordPress is made up of the core files and a database. So you need to backup everything. To Backup the WordPress Core Installation you will need an FTP client. If you take a copy of everything you will be copying:-

1. WordPress Core Installation Files
2. WordPress Plugins Files
3. WordPress Themes Files
4. Images and additional Files.
5. Coding fiels such as Javascript, PHP, etc
6. .htaccess file
7. Robots file
8. Sitemap.xml file

Taking a full backup ensures you have everything you need to rebuild WordPress and once you have these files safe you can also use them if you get hacked to quickly erase what the hackers changed.

You now need to backup the complete database using something like phpMyAdmin. WordPress provide an export facility to export the content of the website but this is not a complete backup of the data.

EMD Update – Exact Match Domain

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Matt Cutts gave us another SEO weather warning or should we say a warning about another update. This time it is the EMD update which is designed to remove low-quality and exact match domains from the Google search results.

How important is it to have keywords in a domain name?

The idea is to prevent people coming up with perfect domain names that match the keywords that they are going to be buying. Matt Cutts wants people to be a domain name that works for people.

If your website has suddenly disappeared from Google in October and the domain name is an exact match of keywords then you are likely to have been hit with the EMD update. Remember Search Engine Optimisation is a complicated process and Google are always working to improve search results for the positive of the users using Google.

Google Panda Algorithm Update 27th September 2012

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A Major Google Panda Algorithm Update is happening and Matt Cutts has said that this will effect 2.4% of English search queries.

Google Algorithm Update Panda Penguin 2013

Google Rolls Out Panda Refresh 3.9.2

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Google Rolls Out Panda Refresh 3.9.2 that is said to effect 0.7% of search queries.

This Google update announcement was on Twitter.

Google Algorithm Update Panda Penguin 2013

How Google Works by Matt Cutts

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Watch this great simple video to understand how Google Works from Matt Cutts.

This video will explain what Google does and then think about how Chameleon can help Google find your website and place it in high ranking positions for search terms relevant to your website.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is an important part of Google and if an SEO Company works to make the website Google friendly then a website will improve rankings.