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Are you wanting to move your site to a new domain? It’s as easy as 1-2-3 with BackupBuddy!

February 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

1. Get Backup Buddy to help with the migration process of the site.

2. Follow this process for the 301 permanent redirects:

Redirect Old domain to New domain (htaccess redirect)

Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all your directories and pages of your old domain will get correctly redirected to your new domain.
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Please REPLACE www.newdomain.com in the above code with your actual domain name.

In addition to the redirect I would suggest that you contact every backlinking site to modify their backlink to point to your new website.

Note* This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled enabled.

3. All done!

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Want to be a VA – but unsure what services to offer? Need some help brainstorming?

October 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

How about 103 FREE Service ideas to help you. Click here to get 103 FREE ideas.

What idea did you like best? You can see the services that I offer at http://StaciJansma.com/Services.

Wish you the best in planning your business/marketing plan for your Virtual Assistant Business!

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Do you trust your hosting company?

October 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I recently helped a client with a facebook fan page and they are looking at switching from a HTML website to a WordPress.org website.

I highly recommend anyone that is currently using a HTML website to switch to WordPress.org because in the long run you will be able to take control and edit the pages and even have blog posts that will help drive traffic to your website.

Personally, I have little time to work on SEO and link building for my website – so I just keep adding more value into my blog posts by sharing with my visitors what I have encountered. I know that if I write about what is important to me – that this will help others too.

Continuing why this blog post is so important for you today is can you honestly answer this question: DO YOU TRUST YOUR HOSTING COMPANY?

The hosting company that they have been using gave me 3 immediate reasons to discuss your hosting company might not be for you!

  1. Certificate warning/error before you even sign into the cpanel access.
  2. When I got in – noticed that the website took forever to load. I was sitting there waiting – waiting – waiting – this is crazy!
  3. The WordPress.org version they had was 2.8.4 (I believe!) – HELLO – 3.1 is already out and I know there was even a 2.9. So obviously this hosting company doesn’t update their files/applications.

So – do you trust this hosting company? Also their certificate warning – it expired 03/2010. So seriously – if this is your hosting company – I would be worried.

Do you want to know WHY? If your hosting company is not running the most up-to-date applications/files/software – whatever you want to call it – this allows hackers to get in. Secondly if your passwords are easy to guess – that lets hackers in. Thirdly if you don’t update your WordPress.org to the newest versions along with the plugins – this lets hackers in – do you see a pattern??

Stay Current and get your WordPress.org version and all plugins updated! Don’t have time to do this – HIRE STACI today! She is accepting clients under her monthly plan $49.97 to update PLUGINS and BACKUP files.

Get started today with WordPress.org Maintenance Package.

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How Can I Be A Virtual Assistant?

October 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
  1. Buy a domain.
  2. Buy hosting for your domain.
  3. Install FREE WordPress.org platform.
  4. Pick a free theme until you can afford a Premium theme like StudioPress.
  5. Google for other VAs (Virtual Assistant Business websites) and see what their websites have on them.
  6. Most websites will include, Home, About, Services, Rates, Portfolio, Contact.
  7. Sign up for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Squidoo.
  8. Use SocialOomph or Hootsuite to help you stay connected with your Followers, Friends and Connections.
  9. Join an online mastermind group.
  10. Get Internet StartUp Guide by Kelly McCausey.

The Complete Internet Marketing Moms Start Up Guide has lots of information that will help you with your questions. Such as a press release. When your website is ready and all your pages are up including rates and services – get your press release up and listed on the FREE press release sites.

Wish you the best with your journey along the way. About 18 months ago – I was right where you are. So if you get stuck – feel free to leave a comment with your question or concern – and I will try to help you!

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Hiring a Virtual Assistant; Getting Virtual Help With Your Business by Outsourcing

August 6, 2010 By 4 Comments

Every small business owner, internet entrepreneur and momentrepreneur raises questions from time-to-time about outsourcing specific tasks with their websites or blogs. As small business owners we want help with writing, setting up our blogs or websites, driving traffic and a number of other time-consuming, but necessary tasks to make our businesses soar above our competition and be successful.

I joined with Savvy Marketing Secrets to answer the top questions… [Read More]

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WordPress.org Support Forum – THANK YOU!!

June 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

In case you are having this issue too…

Why isn’t the admin user listed as an author when editing posts?

Here is the response taken from WordPress.org Support Forum. Direct link: http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#Why_isn.27t_the_admin_user_listed_as_an_author_when_editing_posts.3F

Not sure why this problem happens, but here’s a couple of things to try one of these two solutions.

This usually fixes the problem:

  1. Create new admin user (e.g. newadmin) with Administrator Role
  2. Login as ‘newadmin’
  3. Degrade the old ‘admin’ user to Role of Subscriber and Save
  4. Promote the old ‘admin’ back to Administrator Role and Save
  5. Login as the old ‘admin’

If that doesn’t work, try:

  1. Create a new admin user (e.g. newadmin) with Administrator Role
  2. Login as ‘newadmin’
  3. Delete the old ‘admin’ user and assign any posts to ‘newadmin’
  4. Create ‘admin’ user with Administrator Role
  5. Login as ‘admin’
  6. Delete ‘newadmin’ user and assign posts to ‘admin’
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Adding a password to a file before emailing!

February 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Thanks to Regina Smola at http://WPSecurityLock.com for helping me to understand why securing your information is so important. Why allow others to see or get into our website, our business. We need to step it up and take care of our website and our business otherwise we could run into similar security issues such as our entire site being hacked, funky things added to our webpages/coding, etc.

Here is what I learned from REGINA:

How to protect a compressed folder by requiring a password

You can restrict access to files and folders in compressed folders by requiring a password.

Important The password for a protected, compressed file is not recoverable. If you lose the password, you will be unable to access that file.

Note You cannot protect an empty compressed folder with a password.

To protect the contents of a compressed folder, follow these steps:

  1. Double-click the compressed folder that you want to protect.
  2. On the File menu, click Add a Password.
  3. In the Password box, type the password that you want to use. Type the same password in the Confirm Password box, and then click OK.

Note When you try to move or open a file that is protected with a password, a Password Needed dialog box is displayed. Type the correct password in the Password box, and then click OK.

Works like a charm!

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