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Alright, you have multiple Gmail accounts and using Google Apps for your domain, then sending email your perosnal gmail account using Domain SMTP server just got easier. To send email from your Gmail account using Google Apps SMTP server, Google will provide 2 options
Send using Gmail Server
Send using your domain’s SMTP server.
Configure Domain SMTP Server
In [...]
If you are planning to upgrade wordpress to latest release, do the following
Read Worpdress Support forums to see any upgrade problems
Backup Entire Database
Check for Minimum Requirements ( MySQL, PHP)
Check if all installed plugins supports the latest version of wordpress.
Deactivate all the plugins
Know how to revert to previous wordpress version, if upgrade were to fail.
Test the [...]
Looks like 2.8.6 to 2.9 Wordpress upgrade is is failing for many folks. Just after the upgrade the screen of death (blank screen) is displayed with just wordpress logo
This is what happened
Upgraded Wordpress from 2.8.6 to 2.9 from within wordpress
Refreshed the wp-admin page
Following screen was displayed
Database Upgrade Required
WordPress has been updated! Before we send you [...]
Having your site listed twice in Google Serch reults will definetly have higher click through rate compared to single listing. What if you site has Triple Indented listing in Google ?
With competition heating up between Google and Bing search, Google is coming out with many search options. I guess, as part of that, google decided [...]
If you are into email marketing, testing is the key. There are various things to tested to improve Email Open Rates. Link click through rates is completely different area.
Send Email once a week ( on high traffic days)
Send Email once number of articles reaches certain number ( RSS to Email)
Generic Email Subject ( What’s New, [...]
Average Time Spent by visitors on the site depends on type of sites ( Blogs, Forums, Shopping Site, …). But, over period of time one can recognize the pattern establish a pattern and data will speak for itself.
In one of my blog, Average Time on site was around 3 Minutes, but I started testing Adsense [...]
If you run into Password Recovery Error with Wordpress Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid, do the following
To correct this, fire up phpmyadmin ( it will be usually mysql.yoursite.com) in Cpanel,
click on the database name,
Select “wp_users” Table
Click on Brose Icon ( first icon)
Click on the Row to edit the password
Click [...]
List of Wordpress Database related articles
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Daily Wordpress Database Backup Quick Online Tips
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Manual wordpress Database Backup
After updating Wordpress to 2.8.4 version, Comments and Contact form email notification was not working. I’m using Contact Form 7 for Contact Page.
Problem –
Looks like php mail function is not working properly after wordpress update or it could be because of your hosting provider disabled PHP Mail functionality.
Fix -
Configure Wordpress to use SMTP instead [...]
I was searching in Google and noticed change in Google Search results page layout. They have moved the Sponsored Links on right end of the search results page towards the search results. Is this going to be permanent change or just me seeing some test version? Can we expect new search features soon?
Or it’s just [...]
