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Hot Huskers

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Hot Huskers is the site for all University of Nebraska Huskers Sports.

Football, basketball, volleyball and every other sport that has a team at the University of Nebraska is covered at this site.

Using a custom social media interface for the front end, combined with vBulletin to deliver a place for members to chat with other “Husker Hotties”, their site is well on the way to plowing down the competition.

Hot Huskers uses the following services from SEOvB:

vBulletin Upgrade
Custom Theme Design
Custom Logo
Small SEO Package

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Properly Backing Up Your vBulletin Database

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This is our first article in a series that will outline how to properly backup your entire site and use it to setup a test environment on your current hosting account.

When you install vBulletin, one of its core components is the MySQL database. This database holds all the information for your entire site including settings, templates, users, posts and statistical information to name the least. If the database would ever become corrupt to an unrecoverable point, or should your hosting company have a data-loss issue, or a hacker wipes out your database this information is all unrecoverable unless you have a reliable backup method in place.

Making database backups is the most essential in this process. File backups can be taken less frequently since files hardly change. vBulletin using php scripting technology that makes your site dynamic, and to call information from the database and serve it to the end user, making the need for many files or changes to those files largely unneeded. We’re going to cover the basics of the MySQL database first, followed up with file system backups.

Tools you’ll need

PuTTy (a free windows SSH client)
FTP Program of your choice

The only 100% reliable method of backing up your database is via the SSH interface also known as the command line. By issuing 1 simple command you can have your database backed up and ready to go to your home computer for a secure off site backup. This method assumes you are on cPanel hosting, and SSH is available to you.

Login to your server via the PuTTy client (SSH) if available. If you do not have SSH available contact your hosting company or skip to the PhpMyAdmin Section.
You’ll need to login as the the account user, or under the “root/super user” account.
Once there create a new directory to store backups. Run the following command: mkdir backups (I strongly suggest this is not stored in the public_html folder any where!)
Navigate into your new backup folder with: cd backups
Next is the fun part of backing up your database You’ll need to know your database username and password or have the root account information. The following command is what you want to use: mysqldump -u account_dbusername -p database_name.sql | gzip -9 database_backup.sql.gz

Your database is now backed up, in a compressed format for storage efficency. But you aren’t done yet, the key to taking backups is to move them off-site (off the hosting company server). You’ll need to login to your hosting account via FTP and navigate to the backups folder you created. Download the database_backup.sql.gz file

Some links maybe of interest for you:

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Promo Junkie – Webmaster Resources

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Promo Junkie is a forum focusing on webmaster resources, forums and promotion. Successful and newbie site owners alike can share and discuss limitless ways to increase website traffic and profits.

The site is being expanded to offer even more information and products that will help webmasters expand their knowledge and them succeed in all their online ventures.

Get webmaster articles, find scripts, and learn how to be a more informed and profitable webmaster in their Webmaster Forum.

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Difference Between SEO Software and Our SEO Service

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Many forum owners have been contacting us lately with a common question. Whats the difference between your SEO Service and the SEO Software available for vBulletin?

The difference is actually huge. Our SEO service is for any website, it doesn’t have to be vBulletin powered, or any type of software in particular, it can be anything as simple as a product information page, or a complexe site with thousands of pages.

Our SEO Service delivers results far beyond that of any buy and go software package. We take many factors into consideration a prepackaged software solution won’t be able to take into consideration, and as the major search engines are constantly changing their methods, why wait for software to release updates that could leave your previous work rendered useless or have to be redone? Why risk the chance of that software company not being around for the next update leaving you stuck with software thats no longer valid!

For example, previously it was thought that having friendly URL’s was a major point in your search engine success, however today this simply isn’t the case and Google has confirmed that SEO Friendly URL’s are no longer of any benefit. Most SEO software packages were built around this feature and used as a major selling point in the past which is no longer the situtation.

Some prepackaged software touts around link conesus or duplicate content removal. While their software will reduce the duplicate content, did you know this can also be achieved with a free robots.txt file thats been approved for your site or software. A robots.txt file (which most software doesn’t include or create) can keep the search engine bots attention to pages that are important.

Its now 2009 and two things stand true for major SEO factors. Content and relevant back links. Another thing that SEO software won’t be able to deliver to your forums. While our SEO service includes original content for your site that will help tell the search engine spiders what your domain is about. Another important factor your sites search engine success is relevant back links. Be extremely wary of any advice or service that is promising directory submissions as these do not count as relevant backlinks 90% of the time. Our SEO Service will start your site with a natural link building campaign by getting you relevant back links from other sites. Our back link building strategy is 100% safe and approved to increase your sites rankings.

Be wary of any company or service that is promising over night results. Search engine optimization is a long steady process that lasts for the life of your site. One small mistake can lead to months of set backs, so we suggest always using a 100% white hat SEO service.