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Well, I didn’t practice what I preached, and I got burned.

I urged you to back up your site periodically. But the last time I backed up this site was in January. I did have the wp-db-backup plugin installed, and it was supposed to email me weekly backups of the database, but for some reason, it was not working, and I never noticed. I think I might have had the wrong email address in there, I’m not sure.
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I learned my lesson when I moved this blog and ended up upgrading WordPress from many versions ago. I resolved to keep my WordPress installations upgraded to the latest version.

So today I upgraded this blog to version 2.7 of WordPress. It was pretty easy. I followed the instructions on the WordPress documentation (codex) about Upgrading Wordpress.

The main steps are these:
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Well, I did it, and it wasn’t too bad. (Except for this – see update below.) I moved my blog from www.patbdoyle.com to internetbusinessflash.com (without the “b”).

The hardest part was upgrading to the latest version of WordPress – I hadn’t done that in a while. Somehow I lost all my categories, but that’s ok. I had lost them a while ago when I tried upgrading before. I’ll just put them back later.

I moved from DreamHost to Hostgator too. Hostgator has Cpanel, which Dreamhost does not have. If they both would have had Cpanel, it would have been even easier.

So here is what I did to move the blog.
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I have started using the Alinks plugin, and I really like it.

There are a few other plugins that do similar things. I tried one other one, but then hit upon Alinks and love all the features it has. It is really easy to use.
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AdSense Ad Format

What is the best performing AdSense ad format for you?

For me, no matter which blog it’s on, the best format seems to be the Large Rectangle, size 336×280.

I put it at the beginning of the post, just under the title. It works best if there is room on one side for the post to wrap around the ad.
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In my last post, I described how I created a static home page for my dog blog.

Today I will tell you how I got the box with the latest posts on this static page to update automatically when I post to the blog.
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The Problem: Disorganized Blog

My dog blog is my highest earning blog right now. I have a feeling that it could earn even more if I spent a little time on improving it, so that’s what I have been working on lately.

I didn’t give too much thought to the blog’s structure when I first started it. The result is that some of the best content is buried deep within.
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