Eden Bloggers – June 30, 2011 at 7pm: Blogger's Club

Why should you care about backing up your blog? After all, that's why you have a blog, isn't it? To be able to look at your thoughts and posts later-on at a point in time? Isn't it the blog software's responsibility to make sure that your content stays safe? Is it just too hard to back-up your blog content?

That's just it! None of the blogging platforms are responsible for lost content. It's right there in their TOS. So if there's a hack and they can't back-up your previous information (which would be unlikely, but it could happen), you might not have any of the posts that used to be on your blog anymore. However, it could have been avoided if you made sure to back-up your blog regularly.

At the same time, blogging platforms are known for deleting your blog if it contains adult content or if they receive complaints. In fact, it happened to one of our own bloggers here on EdenFantasys. When you're in the “business” of writing sex or things that someone might deem offensive, you're going to want to make sure that you back-up your content in case something happens with your blog in the future.

Of course, if you're self-hosted, there's always the hacker that could get into your blogging system. No matter how secure blogging systems seem to be made, somebody always finds a way to hack into them. With that in mind, you want to be able to easily restore your data and content if there ever comes a time to do that. Myself, I use an easy plug-in that e-mails my back-up to me every week, so I barely have a lift a finger to keep my stuff backed-up. Even if it's a little time per week, you should definitely considered backing up your content every week or every month (depending on how often you post). So how do you do it? Well, let's find out! less

Well, besides the technical ways, I want to mention that you can always make a word doc & copy & paste the html or just the text even to it after you finish a post, if nothing else or for an added measure of security. Or an office.org doc. Or wordpad. Whatever your pleasure. Sometimes, I like the old-fashioned ways of doing things as well as new technologies. less

It's really dependent. If you want to see how well you're doing, find similar blogs with similar ages and use link . Compete lets you compare your stats with other blogs.

For a two-month old blog, though, I'd probably expect your PageRank to be a 0. less

Since most of you use Blogger for your blogs (as it's free and adult-friendly), we'll start with that method. Forgive me if there is a better method, but I've honestly never used Blogger/Blogspot, and this is the method that most people have recommended to me. In your top bar, there's a “Settings” tab. Go to that tab, and under the “Basic” tab, you can see the “Export Blog” function near the top of the blog. It will then make it easy to download your BlogSpot blog into one easy-to-use file. Easy as pie!

Have you ever backed up your blog before? If not, what's stopping you from doing it?! less

Since most of you use Blogger for your blogs (as it's free and adult-friendly), we'll start with that method. Forgive me if there is a better method, but I've honestly never used Blogger/Blogspot, and this is the method that most people have recommended to me. In your top bar, there's a “Settings” tab. Go to that tab, and under the “Basic” tab, you can see the “Export Blog” function near the top of the blog. It will then make it easy to download your BlogSpot blog into one easy-to-use file. Easy as pie!

Have you ever backed up your blog before? If not, what's stopping you from doing it?! less

Since most of you use Blogger for your blogs (as it's free and adult-friendly), we'll start with that method. Forgive me if there is a better method, but I've honestly never used Blogger/Blogspot, and this is the method that most people have recommended to me. In your top bar, there's a “Settings” tab. Go to that tab, and under the “Basic” tab, you can see the “Export Blog” function near the top of the blog. It will then make it easy to download your BlogSpot blog into one easy-to-use file. Easy as pie!

Have you ever backed up your blog before? If not, what's stopping you from doing it?! less

Since most of you use Blogger for your blogs (as it's free and adult-friendly), we'll start with that method. Forgive me if there is a better method, but I've honestly never used Blogger/Blogspot, and this is the method that most people have recommended to me. In your top bar, there's a “Settings” tab. Go to that tab, and under the “Basic” tab, you can see the “Export Blog” function near the top of the blog. It will then make it easy to download your BlogSpot blog into one easy-to-use file. Easy as pie!

Have you ever backed up your blog before? If not, what's stopping you from doing it?! less