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So I’ve finally opened up the WordPress Classroom 2.0. It’s been months and months in the making but I’m finally live with it. I’ve got new videos, new themes, search capabilities, and, best of all, a brand new forum so that everyone can interact, help each other out, and request new videos from me!

Here’s a look inside… Let me know what you think!

Leave comments below! I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Help Promote Autopilot Cash Formula

Please leave a comment about what you think of me doing more videos or your thoughts on promoting The Autopilot Cash Formula.

As you may remember, one of my New Years resolutions was to get back in to blogging with at least one post per week. I’ve got tons of ideas for new blog posts but I want to get a feel for what people like to read about. I created this cool little poll to get your opinions. If you wouldn’t mind letting me know what kind of topics you like to read about and respond to, I’ll have a better idea of what direction to take future blog posts.

I really appreciate all the feedback and all of the support you guys have given me over the past few months since I’ve dove in to internet marketing head first. It has been an amazing ride so far.

If you are curious about how I made this poll and how you can implement one on your site, check out Blogpolls.com. It literally takes about 4 minutes to set up a poll.

Please make yourself heard in the comments below. If there’s something you’d like me to talk about that is not mentioned in the above poll, let me know.

Thanks so much for you input!

So I have stumbled across quite a few amazing blog posts lately that have been really helpful. I thought it would be a good idea to round them up and point them out. Have a look at some of these links. I guarantee that you won’t be disappointed and that you will learn a lot!

Probably The Most Comprehensive List of Traffic Sources – This is a massive blog post with 21 places to generate boatloads of traffic. I thought I knew about most of the traffic generation techniques that were out there… Man, this article really proved me wrong. There is a ton of great stuff here!

59 Things You Should Be Doing But Probably Aren’t – This blog post is well over a year old but it is a great round up of all of the things you should be doing in your internet marketing business but probably aren’t. There is some amazing advice here!

Here are 3 plugins to boost your WordPress SEO – Phil Morgan put together a short and sweet list of WordPress plugins that will help your blog get to the top of the search engines.

12 Essential Security Tips For WordPress – Well this sort of ties in with my little mishap from last week. Here is a list of things that you should be doing to make sure that your blog is safe and secure.

How To Position Yourself as an Expert – This is very relevant if you are in to blogs or mailing lists. You need to give people a reason to want to listen to you.

That’s my round up of awesome blog posts. I’ll be doing these periodically. What do you think? Do you like the idea of me pointing out some great posts?

So I woke up this morning and jumped over to my blog. I noticed that my theme was still installed and that I could still log in to my dashboard but that there were no posts on my front page. All I saw was a “Page Not Found” error. I logged in to my dashboard and saw that every single post and page that I have ever created had been deleted. I have no idea how this happened but everything was gone. The database that held all of the information on my blog had apparently crashed. I freaked out a little bit and then remembered that I had taken some actions to safeguard against situations like this. I spent about 5 minutes reloading my last backup and everything was back to normal again. I may have lost one or two comments that may have come in over night but, for the most part, it’s like it had never happened.

It is scary because if I hadn’t have taken a few certain actions a few weeks ago, I would have been unable to recover my blog. I figured that there are probably a lot of bloggers out there that may not know how to backup their blog or how to recover their blog from a backup. It is really scary because your blog CAN go down at any time for no apparent reason whatsoever! Read this post and maybe you can put yourself in a situation where a database crash is nothing more than a 5 minute fix.

The very first thing that you should do is download and install the WP-DB-Backup plugin for wordpress. It’s a free plugin and can usually be searched for and installed from directly inside your WordPress Dashboard. Get that installed today. Once it’s installed set it up to backup daily and send you an e-mail with the backup. By doing this, you can jump back to any point in time and recover all the information that crashed. If you don’t update very frequently, you can also opt to backup weekly. I prefer daily because I know I can restore comments from the previous day as well.

Now… If your blog ever goes down and you have been doing a good job of backing it up, here is how you restore your blog.

1. Login in to your CPanel account and scroll down until you find phpMyAdmin

2. Find the database that your blog is installed on. The backup files that are sent to you from WP-DB-Backup will share the same name as the database you need to recover. So if you are unsure of which database to open, refer to the filename of your backup file.

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.

That should do it. Your blog should be back in all of its glory. Having a database failure can be extremely scary! Fortunately, if you take the right precautions from the beginning, it can be a very quick and painless fix. If you only have one plugin installed for your blog, make sure that it is a backup plugin. It will save you someday!

Please feel free to make comments. Have you had your blog crash? Do you have any questions about making sure you are protected against your blog crashing?