Bloggers Journal

Social networking has taken off in a massive way in recent years.  It is easier than ever to communicate with anyone in the world.  It used to be that websites were quite boring pages of just information, and if you wanted to talk to people, you used chat rooms or email.  With the development of various web technologies, and their ease of use, more often nowadays, readers can interact with the authors of their websites via commenting.

When you are starting out a new venture, blogging about your passion, say for example, about holidaying in Disney , you want to try and get as many visitors as you can to your site.  You will read a million times over, on this site included, that commenting on other blogs is a great method of marketing. Read more »

Blogging can be a fun hobby were you share your views and opinions on whatever you are interested in.  For some, your blog can be a means to generating additional income.  This income can come from a number of sources; advertising or product purchasing, for example.  However, regardless of whether or not you want to make money from your blog, you should aim to write to as high a standard as you can.  Without a good standard to your articles, you will not gain or retain readers.  But how do you write good content? Read more »

It’s a well known fact that Word Press is perfect application for powering websites, more specifically, blogs. I have previously used Joomla, however, after playing around with Word Press, the switch made good sense. I’ve been working at this blog for a few weeks, and I have tried to get some plugins that do this,

• Make my life easier
• Allow me to post images or galleries
• Allow me to update my custom header code
• Make managing adverts easy
• Easily implement good SEO

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I was reading a blog entry by Lee at Search Engine Viking which reminded me of the importance of backing up your data.  I cannot stress enough how important it is to make regular backup copies of your important data.  I have had a number of people experience problems with their computers, and ask if I can recover anything for them.  I too have fallen victim to problems with computers, and not had a back up.

There are occasions when something goes wrong with your computer – for whatever reason – and you just cannot get any of the data back of it.  Unfortunately this happens.  It’s why we should back up!

I have been fortunate however, and want to share of a few experiences when I have been faced with having no backup to restore and a computer that is not working.

The first occasion was my own laptop.  It happened about 2 years ago, over half way through my PhD research.  I did everything on my laptop.  I wrote reports, kept research documents, stored personal documents and various other items on my laptop.  I really should have backed it up – or at least more regularly!  Anyway, one day I power up the laptop and I get an error on the screen.  I can’t remember what it was of the top of my head – however, it wasn’t pretty.  Several expletives later, I decided, right, take it to a computer shop and see what they can do.  So I leave it in with the “experts”.  They plug it into their systems.

Sorry sir, but we cannot connect to your hard disk drive.  A data recovery will not be possible

Okay I thought.  Is there not anything can be done?  Apparently not!  All I can do, so they say, is get a new hard disk, and start from scratch.

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