How To Backup Your Blog

Your blog has been up the Internet for a year, your blog has good rankings from Google, have over 10 thousand incoming links to your blog, then something happen, your blog is gone, and worst of all you forget to back up what you have build over the one year. What to do now?

I must say that this is not what I am going to teach you, but on how to prevent all this by doing back up for your blog.

Why Backup Blog?

A few reasons why you must back up blog:

=> Virus or Hackers Attack: A lot of these unethical and no standard people, who were constantly do anything to mess up life up. You can prevent this by installing Anti-Virus that has a very good and updated firewall that will prevent hackers from intrusion and virus from attacking your computer then your website. But sometimes it’s just now enough.

=> Did Not Renew Domain Name: You were too busy to read your emails for a couple of weeks, and just nice that your domain name is expire at this time as well. You run the risk of losing the rankings you build for the year, and someone else might have been eyeing on your domain name for a while now.

=> Did Not Renew Hosting Server: Same reason as above or maybe worst, risk losing all that you have in your web hosting that you build for years.

What Do You Need To Backup For Your Blog?

First to save the content in Word Doc. I use the very traditional and hard way of storing every post with pictures in Mircosoft Word Doc, the title tag, the description tag, the keyword tag, the date of posting and lastly the category the post is in. The other thing to take note of is the picture in the blog post, I categorized them in months so that I can refer easily.

Second is to backup your blog content once every week.  You can do this simply exporting it, and store it in a thumb drive under the blog. The reason why you should do this is that, when you are exporting out the content, you are exporting the comments on the blog posts as well. The comments on your blog are very important as it will show your readers that you have traffic and people are sharing and networking in your blog.

Third is to store your plungins for your blog. When you lose your blog but not the content, all you need to do is to import into the new blog. But sometime you would forget what are the plugins you use for the blogs. What you need to do is to copy the file in your web server called “plungin file” into the thumb drive where you stored your blog content.

Forth is to backup the graphics of your blog: This is the easilest part of all, when you have a custom graphics for your blog, they are file under

Fifth is to store the theme you have custom made. Same is to store in the thumb drive for your blog folder called “Logo Folder”.

There you go, even if all things went wrong for your blog you can still get it all back. Another thing to take note is that you will need to constantly backup your blog (export blog content) once every week at least.

Do you have any more tips on how to back up your blog, do share below on the comment.

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