Site backups are boring, until something goes wrong.

Implement a reliable backup service and sleep sound at night, knowing that your website is safe and secure.

There a four key things you need when it comes to selecting a backup..

• Backups should never fail
• Backups should not slow down your site
• Backups should be accessible when you need them
• Backups should be restored in minutes

In this video, I take you through each point and explain why BlogVault is a good choice when it comes to backups.

In this video I take show you Kittl and how you can use it to design your t-shirts that you can sell.

Things mentioned in this video:

• Kittl (affiliate link)
• My t-shirts on Estepona.Life

Share your designs in the comments!

It’s time for another Google update.

However, this one does seem to be quite positive as some bit sites, like RetroDodo and HouseFresh that were hit hard in the previous updates, are getting rankings, snippets, and traffic back.

How are your sites doing?

It might seem good to set lots of goals and targets for yourself.

But what happens if you don’t achieve them?

It can actually make things worse.

Here’s my latest update on Estepona Life.

It’s going pretty well. I just need to add more content more quickly.

Here are the key stats:

Content:

• 16 General Articles
• 39 Directory posts
• 18 Products

General Traffic:

• Around 40 a day
• Direct is the biggest source
• Then Google
• Then Facebook

Search:

• 16 clicks a day
• Impressions on over 676 keywords

Social:

• Instagram has over 1000 followers
• Engagement is ok – gets likes and comments – mostly negative about the town
• Facebook page growing with Ads – 6p per like – Total followers: 313 
• YouTube: 294 subs and over 30,000 views so far
• X: very slow 37 – followers
• Pinterest: very slow 
• TikTok: very slow

Watch the video for the full story..

Google recently destroyed thousands of people’s earnings by making changes to Google Search.

Now, they’ve turned their attention to YouTube.

The shareholders at Google want more money so the plan is to keep you on Google products, like YouTube and Search for as long as possible.

Some of the things that can and might change are:

• Descriptions being hidden or removed completely (no more links)
• Cards are being changed so you can’t add links
• New jump-forward features makes it easy not to watch sponsored parts of videos

I share more details in the video.

Let me know what you think about this in the comments..

WordPress can get hacked. It’s just one of those things.

With the huge range of themes and plugins available its inevitable that security breaches happen.

The other week, when PopcornTheme.com got hacked, I was able to quickly clean and secure the site using the Malcare Plugin.

Malcare is a full security suite that not only can clean your website but protects it too.

Malcare is a free plugin, with premium plans available. that includes

• It has 7 layers of protection and has features like:
• Real-time Firewall
• Login Protection
• Bot Protection
• Daily Malware Scans
• Vulnerability Monitoring
• Instant Malware Removal

The clean up process was quick and easy.

How to clean your WordPress website with Malcare

Here’s how I did it:

Install the plugin

Add you sites URL and then you can install the plugin.

Either submit a WordPress login or download the plugin and install it manually.

Run a Scan

Once installed the plugin will run a full scan of your website.

Malcare will identify any malware or problems as well as secure your site so your protected from future threats.

Clean your site

Click the button to get your site clean.

You can reset your passwords and security keys here too.

And that’s it!

You can run a scan again to check that your site is clean.

Let me know in the comments if you were able to secure and clean your site with Malcare.

Did you see this tweet from Niche Site Lady?

I don’t want count my chickens or anything, but has anyone else seen an uplift since the latest Google update started rolling out? pic.twitter.com/BRp8wZzvB9

— Niche Site Lady (@NicheSiteLady) June 25, 2024

It looks like some sites are seeing a bit of an increase in traffic from Google again!

If you read the comments, other people are agreeing they’ve seen a bit of a recovery, too.

Unfortunately, I’m not seeing it on my existing sites yet.

How are your sites looking?

I’ve been running some Facebook ads to sell some Estepona-inspired t-shirts.

I’ll be sharing all the info soon.

However, something weird happened yesterday.

A conversion was reported in my account…

The thing is, I knew for a fact that this didn’t come from Facebook.

The order was from my mum..

..she was ordering a Tee as a gift for my dad.

And my mum doesn’t have Facebook or Instagram..

This smelt really fishy to me.

So I reached out to facebook to find out what was going on..

Something didn’t seem right to me…

They’ve said I should remove the domain or something. I’m not sure how that’ll help.

What do you think?