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Joomla is a very flexible web building tool with great capacity. One of the most useful content management features in Joomla is the "Start Publishing" option. This tool allows you to schedule publishing your Joomla article on a later date. It also allows you to set the article creation date to a later date.

The start publishing date allows us to decide the future date when an existing article will be published automatically. This allows you to create time-sensitive content before you need it, and publish it automatically when it is considered the right time to publish it.

The advantage is that you can prepare your content for future publication and that will make it easy for you to prepare your content when you have time and set it for later publication. It also makes it possible to edit an article that had errors just before the actual publishing date.

in this post, I'm going to explain how you can schedule articles to be published in future

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It can be challenging to make sure that Google and other search engines index your web pages correctly if your website serves multiple languages. There are several ways to handle international content.
What Are Multilingual SEO & Multiregional SEO?

Multilingual SEO is the practice of offering optimized website content in a variety of languages. Multiregional SEO is the practice of creating optimized website content that is tailored specifically to multiple geographic regions.

These two strategies often have overlap, which is why we are covering them both in this post. They also tie in with other aspects of online marketing, such as conversion rate optimization, pay per click and content strategy.

The first thing you need to do is determine what regions you are targeting. Next, you need to decide which languages you are going to make available to those regions. This is critical, because it allows you to lay out the entire project.

Here is a guide on how to deal with international Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your website.

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If you are a website owner, or run an email account, you will be familiar with the term "Spamming". Most people will quickly identify a spam email when they receive it. But seeing a strange email from a friend, a colleague or partner or even from yourself drop right in your inbox will make you want to think that someone has been hacked. You are also likely to respond positively to an email from a friend or colleague. If you have seen such email that looks like it's from a friend, it is the work of spammers who spoof those addresses all the time, and it's not hard to do. We will, in this post examine how they do it and Here's how they do it, and how you can protect yourself.

Read more: https://www.todhost.com/knowledgebase/774/What-is-Email-Spoofing.html

An email forwarder will allow you to automatically receive in a designated email account, a copy of every email sent to an email account. So, if you have created an email at yz@yyourdomain.com and created a forwarder which directs your email to a certain gmail.com account, it simply means that each time an email is sent to yz@yourdomain.com, you will receive a copy at the gmail.com account you have directed the forwarder to

Read more: https://www.todhost.com/knowledgebase/773/How-to-create-an-email-forwarder-in-cPanel.html

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How to Create a Website/Domain Redirect in cPanel

You can create the redirect for your domain in your cPanel. In order to do it, it will depend on the cPanel theme you are using. The action will depend on whether you are using the cPanel paper_lantern theme or the cPanel x3 theme.

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Cron is a system which was originally built for UNIX that enables users to execute commands, programs and other actions at specified times. As Wikipedia so eloquently puts it, “Cron is a time-based job scheduler.”

Basically, what that means is you can schedule a task to take place at a specific time, without having to manually execute any code at that time by setting up a cron job. But how does this relate to your WordPress website? Setting up your WordPress website to use the UNIX cron system built into your server’s operating system is possible; however, it can be problematic for two main reasons:

1. Your web host might not permit you to set up cron for security reasons.
2. Different servers might require cron to be set up in different ways, which would require familiarity with a wide variety of systems.
If the WordPress team couldn’t rely on using each server’s cron, then how did they schedule tasks to be performed? They built WordPress Cron.

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Tips to Identify a Good SEO Service

Search engine optimization, simply called SEO may just be the most important factor affecting website success. Although SEO is not a straight jacket component of digital marketing, it also does not have a very simple approach that guarantees success, when carefully implemented with careful analysis and guided by the particular industry data, it can turn a website into a cash cow.

SEO has evolved into a competitive, growing industry. There are plenty of hoaxes and scams on the web. It seems that as the Internet grows more complex, so do the scams. Choosing an effective company for your website SEO can be quite a challenge. There are many factors to consider when hiring an SEO service. This article gives advice on how to select a credible website optimization service.

Assess the services and credibility of the SEO company: Customer service is always the key factor that one should look at. There are many ways of assessing an SEO service. One can try to inquire by placing a call or by sending an email to the company. Depending on the courtesy and time of response, you can initially assess its customer service. Does the company provide an "about us" or "customer support" page on their website? A reputable online business will provide an informative look at the personal side of their company and who they are. Look for other company details such as, the company address and location.

Avoid a guarantee of instant results to the #1 position. The promise of a quick rise to the top 10 position in Google Search Engine Result Pages, SERPs, is common with many SEO firms. SEO takes time to pay-off and such promises come from companies who do not see SEO the way Google do SEO these days. Gone are the days when massive link building buy paid companies led to a top 0 ranking. Today, you will get penalized by Google for massive link building.

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SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a standard technology behind establishing an encrypted connection between a web server (host) and a web browser (client). This connection between the two makes sure that all the data passed between them remain private and intrinsic. SSL is an industry standard and is used to protect their online transactions with their customers. If you have ever visited a website using the https:// in the address bar you were creating a secure connection via SSL.

To be able to create an SSL connection a web server requires an SSL Certificate. When you choose to activate SSL on your web server you will be prompted to complete a number of questions about the identity of your website and your company. Your web server then creates two cryptographic keys - a Private Key and a Public Key.

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Digital marketing is shaping the way businesses are generating sales and revenue from non-conventional means and methods. But just like every other marketing effort, from idea generation to planning your implementation strategy, digital marketing requires careful and well thought-out strategies to give it some advantage and record the desired success. In this post, we examine some Small Changes that you can make which have some incremental and positive impact on your digital marketing strategy and produce big returns.

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WordPress and Joomla share features and attributes. They both started at the same time and share the same programming languages and mark up - PHP, MYSQL, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. They both have the same development structure: Create a design, add content, and extend the features with extensions / plugins.

Joomla has always offered a true CMS experience and from the start has been more extendible than WordPress. But WordPress got far more popular than Joomla and this had been for some reasons.

WordPress is a blogging platform that became a CMS from third party plugins. Many proponents of Joomla like to say that Joomla has not advanced from its core, but Joomla never needed to as it was a f

WordPress has taken the lead as the solution for websites, but how did this happen?

Digital marketing is shaping the way businesses are generating sales and revenue from non-conventional means and methods. But just like every other marketing effort, from idea generation to planning your implementation strategy, digital marketing requires careful and well thought-out strategies to give it some advantage and record the desired success. In this post, we examine some Small Changes that you can make which which have some incremental and positive impact on your digital marketing strategy and produce big returns.

Introduction

Traditional marketing approaches still have their place. even personal selling is still being deployed and because they are still profitable for some organisations and businesses, they are still being deployed with huge expenditure spent on their implementation. The banks for instance still rely very heavily on personal selling to gain conversion. Notwithstanding, digital marketing is becoming increasingly central to the success (or failure) of many companies. If you are not focusing on the latest marketing tactics for attracting new customers, meeting your revenue goals may be very tight and you will be missing out on a huge potential you will find in digital marketing. But relying on digital marketing to record outstanding success requires heavy investment in digital marketing efforts and patience to see the results. Because the online world is in such a state of flux and growth, and the chances of success largely depends on how you can respond to the changes and lead your industry, you need to be flexible enough to keep pace with these changes.

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Search Engine Optimization is a rather very complex task. Generally, it is the tweaks that help web pages gain higher ranking in search engine result pages (SERP).

In this article, we provide a very practical approach to SEO and the steps that had been used to gain good ranking for various websites as we know and have adopted in the optimization of some of the websites we have designed, managed and optimized for ranking.

There are two broad elements of SEO. The first is on-page optimization and the second is off-page optimization.

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According to Google cloaking is when "a website returns altered web pages to search engines crawling the site." In other words, a human reading the site would see some different content or information than the Googlebot or other search engine robot reading the site.

The reason people implement cloaking is to improve their search engine ranking by misleading the search engine robot into thinking the content on the page is different than what it really is. While cloaking does not necessarily turn people away from your website, it can be more damaging as search engines frown seriously at it. Some kind of lying to the search engines and given them a misleading representation.

How Search Engines Respond to Cloaking

Most search engines will wield a very heavy penalty on any website found to be engaged in cloaking. Most search engines will immediately delete and sometimes blacklist a site that is discovered to be cloaking. They do this because cloaking is usually intended to completely fool or manipulate the search engine's algorithms and programming that determine what makes a site rank high or low in that engine.

If the page that the customer sees is different from the page that the search engine bot sees, then the search engine cannot do its job. So they ban sites that use cloaking strategies in an attempt to gain ranking.

Read more: https://www.todhost.com/blog/website-cloaking-what-the-search-engines-allow-and-disallow.html

Blogging is serious business and there are thousands of people whose living strictly depends on income earned from blogging. Some would think blogging is such a simple job anyone can do, but when you get down to the real business, you’ll find how things get messed up because it is actually more difficult with some technicalities than thought.

Every blogger. especially beginners, without a good coach and experience encounters some hitches. That is normal. This post takes you through some common mistakes most bloggers make and some basic advice on how to avoid or overcome them.

Mistake #1: You think of ideas in a vacuum.

Once you start blogging, you will get ideas come to you at random. Do not be attracted to all ideas and consider them good for your blog. Filter your ideas to bring them in line with your blogging goals.

Because the reason why you are blogging is to grow your business, you will ensure that your blogging all support this larger business goal. Your blog posts should have some natural connections to issues in your industry and address specific questions and concerns your prospects could have or raise.

Mistake #2: You are too stiff in writing

Writing a blog post requires a natural flow of thoughts. Just write the way you talk. Don’t try to be too stiff, struggling to impress your readers. Allow a natural flexibility in writing.

Read full blog post at: https://www.todhost.com/blog/common-errors-bloggers-should-avoid.html

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Search Engines are never so generous about all the factors that come to play in determining and ranking websites. There had been a lot of research that give us a clue on what the ranking factors are but we have never gotten a comprehensive guide from Google on the specifics. But this a very critial factor for every website owner who is serious about ranking well on serach engne result pages. There had been some agreement on the importance of certain factors like popularity and new contant but there still exist much debate over factors like age of domain name and registration perion. That will be the focus of this post: does age of domain name and the registration period affect website ranking?

What is meant by Age of Domain Name

By age of domain name, we are referring to "how old is the domain name". A domain name that was registered in 2010 would be 6 years old in 2016. So the age of domain name represents the duration or period the domain has been in existence.

What is Registration Period?

This means the period, in years, it will take for the domain to epire. So, if in October 2016, you register a domain for 3 years, it means the domain will epire in October 2019 and the registration period will be 3 years.

The focus of this post is to determine how these two factors affect the ranking of websites

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At the time of this tutorial, the latest version of Joomla is the Joomla 3.6 series. The installation method hasn’t changes yet and so the process will apply for this latest version and even for earlier versions of 2.5, 1.7, 3.4 and 3.5.

In this tutorial you will learn how to manually install Joomla 3.6. The method described here shows how to run your installation directly on a live server. It will also be applicable to installing the software on localhost. If you run on localhost, you will later want to move your installation to a live server.

If you face any difficulties, you can always get help with the 24/7 customer support at Todhost.com. You can also get a free Joomla installation on your account if you have a running web hosting service on Todhost. All you will need to do is to submit a ticket to the customer support department requesting a free installation and that will be setup for you within minutes.

Now, there are a few things to do before you upload and begin the process of installing your Joomla website.

The first is that you need to secure your Joomla installation file – be it a zipped file or a raw and extracted file. You need to keep it away from frontend view before it is properly setup. This is just a security precaution. Don’t bother as why. Just make sure your installation details or raw files are not available to visitors before you finish.

The way to do this is that if you are running on a fresh and empty website and you want to install in the main directory, then begin by creating an index.htm file. You may want to edit your index file and type a text like “site under construction” so that visitors are not just presented with a blank page if anyone ever visits.

You may upload your Joomla install file (the .zip file) into the root folder or create another folder into which you will upload and install your Joomla website. Let us call the sub-folder “web”. Creating a sub folder is more useful if you already have some content in your root directory and do not want to delete it. You will that install your Joomla website in the sub-folder and choose to move it to the root directory or leave it in your sub folder.

How to Install Joomla Manually (valid for Joomla all versions)

Installing Joomla 3.6 manually is pretty easy. Just follow the steps below and you will successfully install your joomla 3.6 website.

Step 1. Download your Joomla installation file. You can download directly from the official Joomla website or from template clubs that offer high quality premium Joomla templates. Usually, this will be a zipped file ending in .zip. Make sure you leave it as a zipped file also and do not change the extension type to GZip or something else.

Step 2. Upload the Joomla installation file to your preferred directory. The good thing about Joomla is that moving the files from one directory to another does not affect its functionality. It only changes the file path and once you typr the right path, your website starts working normally.

Step 3. Create a MySQL database. You can do this in cPanel. From cPanel->Databases, you will find the MySQL Database icon and you just click that to create your databases.


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One study on consumers by ofcom indicates that People spend twice as much time online as they used to 10 years ago. With the introduction of tablets and growing use of mobile phones to surf the net, the face and strategies for digital marketing has changed significantly.

Digital mareting is all about providing value for consumers using an online medium. This also means the offering has to be communicated to the target users or consumers using the right channels. Marketing has always been about connecting with your audience in the right place and at the right time. Today, that means that you need to meet them where they are already spending time: on the internet.

So, essentially, digital marketing is any form of marketing that exists online.

Digital Marketing Explained

Digital marketing is an umbrella term for all of your online marketing efforts to deliver value to your customers. The reward are satisfaction and profits for your organization and business. Businesses leverage digital channels such as Google search, social media, email, and websites to connect with current and prospective customers.

From your website itself to other online branding assets -- digital advertising provide a huge spectrum of tactics and assets for business growth and goal achievement.

Here’s a quick rundown of some of the most common assets and tactics:
Assets

website
Blog posts
Ebooks and whitepapers
Infographics
Interactive tools
Social media channels (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, etc.)
Earned online coverage (PR, social media, and reviews)
Online brochures and lookbooks
Branding assets (logos, fonts, etc.)

Tactics
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

SEO is the process of optimizing your website to increase its visibility or rank in search engine results pages. This is different from paid search or advertising traffic. The overall target for search engine optimization is to increase the amount of organic (or free) traffic that your website receives.

Read full blog post at: https://www.todhost.com/blog/a-detailed-guide-and-strategy-for-digital-marketing.html

To be in total control, you also have to control the domain name. Politely try to identify the web host using the whois information. Then politely request the EPP code and inform him you want to transfer to a new host.

WordPress is an extremely good platform for blogging well coded and light. However, to improve website functionality, a lot of plugins are used. Sometimes, these plugins are poorly coded and are not updated to match up with WordPress updates and so the have compatibility issues. Messing up with WordPress installations by installing tons of low-quality plugins can be a huge problem.

Now, let’s re-focus our attention on the main issue. You need to understand that speeding your WordPress website is not just limited to having good plugin or running on a good web host, there are tweaks to performance plugins and the WordPress installation itself as well other practices that will enhance the performance of your WordPress website in terms of speed.

There are a few techniques you can always leverage on to optimize and speed up WordPress sites. We will have to look at a few of these techniques you can use to improve the performance of your WordPress website:

#1: Consider A Good Web Host

Optimizing our WordPress website will be more useful to you only after you have checked and have been sure that the slow speed is not a problem with your web host. We have had the opportunity of optimizing websites for other people not necessarily hosted on our platform. In some cases, we found that some web hosts will load thousands of websites on a single shared server and the server becomes extremely slow

Before you choose a web host, it is always a good idea to check up popular reviews on Google and web hosting forums.

.#2: Choose a Fast Theme/Framework

Some WordPress themes are actually not so impressive when it comes to speed. Working with a WordPress theme that is not so well coded can be a problem. You need check up what other users of any theme or framework have to say about it before you decide to use or not to use. If you choose to use a theme that is packed with lots of additional features that you don’t need, it’ll negatively impact your site performance.

What is a Fast Theme

Generally speaking, if a theme loads in less that 2 seconds, then it can be taken as good speed. Below 3 seconds is not so good and anything above seconds should be considered problematic. Be mindful of theme coding - too much PHP, JavaScript, Iframe isn’t good for your site’s speed.

WordPress themes bt default are incredibly well-coded, light-weight, very fast and easily customizable. If you can handle a little bit of code or hire a developer, choose one of those to build something great on top of them.

#3: Install A Caching Plugin

One of the most effective ways, after having to run on a good web host, that will certainly improve the performance of yyour WordPress wwebsite in terms of load times is to install a caching plugin. As soon as you install a plugin like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache, you’ll be able to tell that your site loads faster.

Having a plugin to handle your website cache helps speed up your website tremendously. The cache files are lie static pages served to users and visitors to your website. Instead of loading your entire website along with the functionalities loaded on the site everytime a visitors comes by, the server will serve a cached copy speedily and that speeds up the load time. Caching greatly reduces MySQL database access, number of PHP requests, server access for static resources, and even HTTP requests (in case of combining multiple files into one).

Read full blog post from source on the Todhost Blog: https://www.todhost.com/knowledgebase/826/What-you-should-know-about-optimizing-your-WordPress-website-for-speed.html

Caching is a good strategy to speed up a Joomla website. Not just Joomla but every content management system. What caching does is to save a static page and render it each time the page is clicked by a website visitor. Instead of loading the entire page along with all the extensions, what it does is to serve the saved page like a static page.

How does the web cache work?

Joomla wants to present the fastest user experience possible to the visitor. As someone clicks through the site, Joomla makes snapshots of where they have been and saves them to a temporary directory. If the person wants to return to a previous location, the server grabs the temporarily saved page, which should be faster than going back to the data base and generating an entire new page which will load all plugins and extensions.

Sometimes this cache doesn't get cleaned out soon enough, so when you make a change in the administrator area then go to the front end to view it, you're actually looking at an "old" page that hasn't been updated yet.

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Pls i need help after updating my
joomla site without backup now
am trying to login to my
dashboard but is showing
blankpage but i can access the
site but cant login as admin

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Let us know if you have some challenges fiing this. This is usually caused by incompatible plugins when an upgrade is made.

Website upgrade is a common practice. Keeping up with the latest version of your content management system or website software is a good security measure as it ensures you are dealing with latest security bugs and keeping up with the latest features. But sometimes you decide to upgrade your version of Joomla, and then after the upgrade is done, your website becomes completely unusable or some of its features become broken. Why does that happen, and how to revert back to a previous version of Joomla to undo the upgrade. That will be the focus of this post which essentially will take us the process of reverting back to a previous version of Joomla after you have had some issues with functionality following an upgrade.

Why a Joomla upgrade might break your website

There are several reasons that are behind this, and they mainly are:
1. You have modified the core of your Joomla website: Many website owners modify the core of their Joomla website (or have it modified) in order to add some custom functionality. While this can be necessary, it should be avoided when possible. Only modify the core of your Joomla website when there is no other alternative. Note that in most cases there is an alternative! 99% of the very complicated work on a Joomla website can be done using extensions. You will rarely find any need to modify the core. And, in the very rare cases whereyou have to, it will be good to make changes compatible with future upgrades.
2. You have installed an extension that is not compatible with your current version of Joomla: When you do an upgrade, sometimes a 3rd party extensions can be incompatible with your current version of Joomla, and if this extension is a System plugin that runs on every page, then most likely your page will either show a blank page or will display a fatal error (at best your page will display a warning). There are also cases where an existing extension is not compatible with an upgraded version and it creates problems. So before an upgrade, it is a good idea to check the eyensions to be sure they are compatible with the version you are planning to upgrade to.
3. You have uploaded the files to the wrong place: A Joomla upgrade usually consists of uploading specific files to specific directories. Sometimes the upgrade can consist of just uploading a couple of files to a couple of directories. What if, for example, you need (as part of the upgrade) to upload index.php to the administrator directory, and instead of uploading that file to the administrator directory, you uploaded it to the root directory of your website. Not a single page on your website will work (the index.php file that is located directly in the root directory of your website is used on every page on the frontend of your Joomla website). You will, in such cases, simply locate the newly uploaded file and delete it or simply move it to the proper directory using your file manager.
4. You haven’t finished uploading the files, but you thought you did: As stated above, a Joomla upgrade consists of uploading several files. What if the upgrade consisted of uploading 5 files and you uploaded only 4, and what if the file that you missed is used by those other files? At worst, all of your website will stop working and at best, some of your functionality on your website will be broken. This creates corrupt files on yyour server and will need a complete re-upload or you find a way to resume upload and complete it.

How do you revert back to a previous version of Joomla

Once you notice that the upgrade has broken your website, you realize it is big trouble and have to think of a way out.

Read full post on the Todhost Blog: https://www.todhost.com/knowledgebase/812/How-to-Revert-Back-to-a-Previous-Version-of-Joomla.html

Web page speed is paramount to every esite performance. Apart from being a search engine ranking factor, page speed strong impact on users and could determine how long they will want to sped on a website. Slow websites will usually have a very high bounce rate which is downside for user experience and SEO. In essence, slow webpage load times will hurt your blog's traffic in many aspects.

You will have to do your best and adopt the best practices to optimize your blog for speed. There are a couple of reasons to do this:

A slow blog means that visitors might decide to leave your website all together. We live in a world of wanting things now and potential readers will not hesitate to go elsewhere to get what they are looking for.
Search engines take website loading speeds into consideration when ranking a site's content in their search engine rankings. A slower site's content will be ranked lower, which means that the site will receive less search engine traffic.

One of the advantages of Ghost is that blogs that are powered by the Ghost blogging platform are already very fast. Speed Tests show that an out-of-the-box, basic Ghost blog is 6 times faster than an out-of-the-box WordPress website. However, page speed is one of those things that can be constantly improved on. Here are a few ways on how to speed up your Ghost blog.

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