First of all, if you haven’t heard of it yet, WP Twin is a software solution to make an exact copy (clone) of any WordPress site. Theme, plugins, database and settings – the entire works, just how good is that?

If you don’t backup your site(s) then you are opening yourself up to a mass of work to recover from hacks, system crashes server moves etc. The method I used to use was to have a plugin that backed up my database every night and emailed me the file. This alone is useless unless you have a copy of your site theme and plugins to be able to recover your site to. The restore process is both time consuming and error prone.

On several occasions I have had to move sites from add-on domains to new top level domains for my clients. This is a real pain in the butt to do and manually intensive. I can do it in a few minutes with WP Twin, perfectly.

So, with those issues identified, how does WP Twin help? My response is, in every way! I copy a single file to the WordPress site to be “cloned” then execute that file in my browser, seconds (and I do mean seconds) later I have a clone file that I can download (using an FTP client) to my computer. The next step is to create a blank WordPress setup on the destination domain ( less than a minute if using Fantastico).

Then I copy (using an FTP client) a second file and the clone file to this new WordPress installation and once that upload is complete (the slowest part of the process dictated by your internet connection speed) you execute the file and (fanfare of trumpets) you have an exact copy of the original site up and running. Just how cool is that? Click the banner below to see a video of WP Twin being used.

WP Twin’s introductory price is just $97. It isn’t often such a fanstatic product is released and my advice to you is to get it now before the introductory price changes.

Recently, I set up a new affiliate website and added it to my Traffic-Bug account as usual to start generating backlinks. Then I realised it was coming up to Christmas so I wanted to grab some quality, relevant backlinks as quickly as possible. The method I always use to accomplish this is by blog commenting.

My only advice here is to keep your comments relevant and whenever possible, informative and not just “great post” “thanks” etc. If you add value then the blog owner will approve your comment and give you a backlink. But that is just a single backlink, if you can discover a relevant blog that’s maybe not too popular (i.e. it doesn’t receive tens of comments a day) and it utilises a widget that shows the last 5 or, even better, 10 comments in a sidebar widget then you will get multiple backlinks from that one blog as your comment/link will appear in the sidebar of every page on that particular blog! As those pages get indexed by the search engines, so does your link. Read the rest of this entry