WordPress Database Tutorial: Security, Backup and Efficiency Tips

WordPress Database Tutorial: Security, Backup and Efficiency Tips
WordPress is currently the most important open source website publishing software. It has diverse applications ranging from self-publishing content blogging to acting as a full-fledged content management system. Yet only a few tutorials give serious emphasis to the WordPress database which is the core of WordPress operations. This tutorial seeks to remedy this situation….
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Blogging Tips from Julie and Julia

Blogging Tips from Julie and Julia
What can a movie tell us about blogging When one of the central stories revolves around a blog quite a bit. And when that movie happens to be Julie and Julia one can learn all sorts of positive lessons as the plot unfolds….
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More Blogging Tips: Cooking with Gas

More Blogging Tips: Cooking with Gas
Yesterday I covered four great lessons we can learn about blogging from watching the movie Julie and Julia. I promised you a total of 11. So what can you do to make your blog memorable besides being passionate about your subject having a goal being reliable and finding your niche Keep reading….
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Twitter May Be Working on Deals with both Microsoft and Google

Twitter May Be Working on Deals with both Microsoft and Google
It appears that both Microsoft and Google are eyeing the social networking, microblogging giant, Twitter. The two competitors are interested in partnering with Twitter for data mining purposes.

Blog: Overview

Blog: Overview
Blog. The Blog tool allows professors and students to post their own observations or commentaries, view what others are blogging about, and, if comments are activated, post

Go To SES Berlin Or SES Chicago For “Two Early Birds”

Go To SES Berlin Or SES Chicago For “Two Early Birds”

Last week, I told you to go to SES Berlin or SES Chicago for “a ranking in the top three.” This week, I’ll continue with the search engine marketing industry version of “two turtle doves.”

Altogether now: “Two early birds, and a ranking in the top three.”

Search industry veterans know that the Early Bird Rate for SES Chicago 2009 ends this Friday, Sept. 25. If you register by then, you can save up to $600 on a Platinum Passport.

Now, the agenda overview of the SES Chicago conference has just been posted. So, you can look over the agenda and decide that this is a must-attend event. Or, you might notice that 11 of the 65 sessions are “Reserved For Late-Breaking Topic.”

Why is this a great reason to sign up now?

As I said last week, the search engine marketing industry changes so rapidly, that you need to attend more than one or two Search Engine Strategies conferences a year to stay up-to-date on the latest market trends.

And Mike Grehan, Senior Vice President of content for Search Engine Watch, ClickZ, and Search Engine Strategies, Stewart Quealy, SES Advisory Board Co-Chair and VP of Content Development, as well as the other members of the SES Advisory Board understand this.

So, they’ve posted titles and descriptions of three keynotes and 50 sessions — so you know there will be plenty of new content to learn — and save enough slots to address the late-breaking topics that industry veterans know will pop up between now and then.

Hey, a number of us are budgeting the same way. I can tell you where 85 percent of my fourth quarter budget is going, but the last 15 percent may get shifted around to take advantage of new opportunities or to counter unexpected threats.

But you don’t need to be an industry veteran to take advantage of the Early Bird Rates. You just need to make your move more than two months before your more cautious competitors.

SES Berlin also offers “Early Bird” rates. At least, that’s what it says on the website before explaining the details in German.

To help us non-German speaking search engine marketers understand why we should attend, here is John Mulligan’s interview with Thomas Bindl, one of Europe’s leading authorities on search.

Thomas Bindl, Refined Labs, previews SES Berlin 2009

With the exception of the “Search around the World” session, which will be in English, all of the other sessions at SES Berlin will be in German. The session are also organized into a Fundamentals Track for those who are new to the field and an Advanced Track for search engine marketing industry veterans.

In the coming weeks, I’ll share more reasons why you should go to SES Berlin November 24-2w5 or SES Chicago December 7-11. If you come up with some lyrics like “12 bloggers blogging,” let me know. I could use some inspiration.

Blogging Tips for Beginners

Blogging Tips for Beginners
Written on February 14th, 2006 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse Blogging Tips for Beginners. Pro Blogging News 362 comments. Welcome to my Blogging Tips for Beginners Guide.

Audience for Online Video-Sharing Sites Has Nearly Doubled

Audience for Online Video-Sharing Sites Has Nearly Doubled

According to a survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project conducted in April 2009, the share of online adults who watch videos on video-sharing sites has nearly doubled since 2006. Fully 62 percent of adult internet users have watched video on these sites, up from just 33 percent who reported this back in December 2006.

Online video has also become a bigger fixture in everyday life, garnering 19 percent of all internet users who use video-sharing sites to watch on a typical day in April 2009. This compares with just 8 percent of internet users reported use of the sites on a typical day in 2006.

The report is based on the findings of a daily tracking survey on Americans’ use of the Internet. The results are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research International between March 26 to April 19, 2009, among a sample of 2,253 adults, 18 and older.

According to Mary Madden, Senior Research Specialist at the Pew Research Center, online video watching among young adults is near-universal; 89 percent of internet users ages 18-29 now say they watch content on video sharing sites, and 36 percent do so on a typical day.

While much of the content on video sharing sites is user-generated, there is also a growing archive of professional content available through YouTube and newer network-sponsored video portals like Hulu. Efforts to lure viewers to these portals appear to be paying off, as 35 percent of internet users now say they have viewed a television show or movie online. By comparison, just 16 percent of internet users said they had watched or downloaded movies or TV shows when asked a similar question in 2007.

I know, I know, I’ve just written a book entitled, “YouTube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day.” But just because I’m biased doesn’t mean I’m wrong.

The Pew Internet & American Life Project found that the use of video sharing sites currently outranks many other headline-grabbing internet pastimes among American adults. For example, the 62 percent of adult internet users have watched a video on online video-sharing sites like YouTube is greater than the 46 percent of adult internet users are active on social networking sites, or the 11 percent who use status updating sites like Twitter.

So, think about that as you consider which sessions to attend at SES San Jose 2009. You can attend The Next Wave for Online Video, Extreme Makeover: Live Twitter & Blogging Clinic, or both sessions.

Or, you can attend the Social Media & Video Strategies Forum, the Local Search Summit, or both events.

Based on the latest data from the Pew Research Center, online video-sharing sites are among the topics that you’ll want to be able to discuss intelligently. And if you really want to master this subject, check out the YouTube and Video Marketing Workshop on Friday, August 14.

Or, you could sign up for one of the other training workshops. I know all of the other instructors: Shari Thurow of Omni Marketing Interactive, Jennifer Evans Laycock of SiteLogic, Bill Hunt of Back Azimuth Consulting, Amanda Watlington of Searching for Profit, and Cindy Krum of Rank-Mobile, LLC. There are a lot of topics that will be on the test.

Keyword Research for Bloggers: A Comprehensive Guide | Copyblogger

Keyword Research for Bloggers: A Comprehensive Guide | Copyblogger
Keyword research is a fundamental part of online marketing of all kinds, and that definitely includes blogging. Blogs are famous

Introduction to Blogging « WordPress Codex

Introduction to Blogging « WordPress Codex
What is a “blog”? “Blog” is an abbreviated version of “weblog,” which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information.

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