Every resource on Google for Copy Database in phpMyAdmin says – Export the database in phpMyAdmin. Create a new database and import the exported file into the newly created database using phpMyAdmin interface. The problem with import using phpMyAdmin is when you have a very large file and don’t have access to command prompt or shell to run import command. In my case the database size was more than 500 MB which cannot be uploaded into phpMyAdmin.

How to Copy Database in phpMyAdmin?

Let me share a simple process to get database copied using phpMyAdmin and without shell access.

1. The first thing is to export the database from phpMyAdmin. When exporting make sure you don’t have the Create Database line at the very top of the export file. If you have that line, you need edit the file to delete that line.
2. The next step is to create a new database where you would like the old database to be copied over.
3. Download the BigDump MySQL Importer. For your reference I have attached it here as well.
4. Extracting the content of the zip file, you will see one php file named bigdump.php.
5. Edit the file to add the details of your new database created in step 2.

$db_server = 'localhost';
$db_name = '';
$db_username = '';
$db_password = '';

6. Once you have the details upload your sql file and the bigdump file to your server using FTP. You may not be allowed to upload 500 MB file into phpMyAdmin but you can always upload them using FTP.
7. Once uploaded point your browser to the bigdump.php file. It should give you option to import the sql file into the database.

I hope this helps other fellow webmasters cloning large database when they have no access to shell. Enjoy.

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When re-designing my Technical Analysis Blog to Thesis Theme I wanted to have a menu that is not a thesis menu but an extra WordPress menu. Searching Google I landed on few articles but they all referred to static links hard coded into the theme and not have an WordPress Menu integrated. So I thought I will share my code of having an additional WordPress menu in your thesis theme.

The process is pretty simple and all you have to do is add few lines to your custom_functions.php file.

1. Register the menu by adding the following line anywhere in the custom_functions.php file

if (function_exists( 'register_nav_menu' )) register_nav_menu('additional_menu', 'Additional Menu');

2. Hook to display the menu at an appropriate location. I wanted an additional menu in header and so the code becomes.

add_action('thesis_hook_header','additional_nav');
function additional_nav()
{
    wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'additional_menu' ) );
}

You can replace thesis_hook_header with your location of thesis hook.

Visit menu option in your WordPress admin and now your Thesis theme supports an additional menu.

I hope it helps other fellow thesis developers. Share your feedback in comments below.

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Almost every webmaster uses Google Analytics but there are very few who can use it to the full potential and I will share one of the secret trick in using Google Analytics that can help you understand your site audience and what they are looking for. The feature we will enable is called Site Search feature which tracks the site search terms for your site and you can use it to give your audience what they are looking for when they visit your site.

What Is Google Analytics Site Search Tracking?

If you’re a webmaster, you probably have a search function on your site. If don’t have search feature, you should definitely add one because it is an easy way to allow your site visitors to find content on your site. Once you have the site search feature on your site, you can track what people are searching for on your site using Google Analytics and this is termed as site search.

How To Benefit From Google Analytics Site Search Tracking?

Most webmasters and bloggers have site search option on their website but they don’t track searched terms and use it to their advantage. They don’t track what their site visitors are searching for and though the tracking can be enabled with just few clicks in Google Analytics. Today I will explain how you can understand what your visitors are looking for.

How To Set Up Google Analytics Site Search?

• Access your Google analytics new interface account and click on the settings button in the top right corner.
• Visit Google Analytics Website profile where you want to enable search tracking.
• Click on Profile Settings tab of your site.
  
• Scroll to the end and enable the Site Search Option with Do track Site Search radio button.
  

If you are using Google Search on your website, your query parameter will be q. If you are using WordPress internal search, your search parameter will be s.

If you are not using Google search or WordPress, you can find your query parameter by making a search on your site. When I search for the term “shabbir” here at IMTips, the URL in the address bar is http://www.imtips.co/?s=shabbir. Take note of the Query Parameter (?s=shabbir). For your search results page, identify the searched query parameter. If you are not sure, post in comments below and I will try to help you find your searched query parameter.

Once you have the query parameter, Apply the changes and you are all set to tracking what your visitors are searching on your site.

How To Analyze Google Analytics Site Search Report?

If you just have enabled Google Analytics Site Search tracking, you will need some time for data to start accumulating. If you don’t have enough visitors that are actively doing searches on your site, it can take even longer. Let us take a look at my Site Search Report for Go4Expert and try to understand. Click on the image to enlarge.

Go4Expert Site Search Report

The term that is searched most often on my site is “Facebook” and when they do that search, they don’t find what they are looking for and so 80% of people leave. Approximately 4% of people refine the search to add few more terms to the keyword Facebook.

Conclusion: Need more content related to keyword Facebook. Similar conclusion can also be drawn for the term hacking. Obviously, people are searching go4Expert for information on Hacking Facebook but there are very few articles to actually hacking Facebook and most of them are threads asking how to do that. .

The next search term on my site is “C”. Fortunately, Go4Expert has a lot of content related to C Programming and so only 47% of people who do that search leave the site, and 18% of the people refine search to find more content on the site.

Final Thoughts

Google Search along with Google Analytics Site Search provides valuable information about what your site audience is looking for. This data provides two action items. The first is obvious which is making more content that people are searching for. Secondly, making search box much more prominent on websites. The more visitors use search, more you know what people are looking for.

Have you set up the Site Search reporting capabilities in Google Analytics? If so, how are you using the information? Share your thoughts in comments below.

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Most webmasters think advertising as the only moneymaking option from websites. Advertising is definitely the better option to monetize your content-based site but remember it is not the only option. I have seen many bloggers and webmasters who have advertising as monetization strategy in mind, misses out on the other monetization option to multiply income streams. I am going to share what other income streams you can have along with advertisement for your content site or blog to multiply your income.

#1 Consult to Increase Income

If you have a good content site, you’re already helping your readers. If you provide them for more option like a personal one on one consultation, they will be more than happy to hire you for a fee because they already know you are an expert in the domain. On my Technical Analysis Blog, I share my views on Indian market and though I don’t have any consultation services option on my blog, there are readers who have hired me to get a personal consultation from me adding one more income stream to my blog.

#2 Affiliate Programs to Increase Income

Do you often recommend products or services on your site? Why not earn a commission from those recommendations? I use lot of products for my websites. I share my experience with those products or services and I recommend the same here on IMTips and some of those products earn me a commission.

Note that I don’t recommend products only for commission but I recommend products that I use which I think will be useful to my readers and some (not all) of them earn me commission.

#3 Referral Programs to Increase Income

Consider creating a referral program and reward your existing customers for sending new customers to you. I used to follow this a lot when I was new in freelancing. Remember one of my client responded that I don’t sell my friends for cash and yes you will see such responses but it is then when I decided to give my existing clients discount for sending new clients my way.

#4 Add Services to Increase Income

Another way to boost your income is to expand your services. If you are providing web designing, you can think about adding web development, or even web hosting service.

I use to provide vBulletin services when I started and I added few extra services like server management for large sites or forums and as I added more services, I was overbooked with lot more work than I can actually handle.

#5 Membership Programs to Increase Income

A membership program provides you with a consistent monthly income. It helps you make more money each month. If you have a product where you are charging your client a one-time fee, you can look about expanding your product to add some membership type program where you can make lot more monthly consistently over the period of time.

Apart from advertising, what other income streams you use on your sites? Share your income streams in comments below.

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Search Engine Optimization is no longer just confined to

• Create unique content
• Get bunch of backlinks

Definitely the above things needs to be done but then you have to add one more factor of Social Media to your SEO efforts these days and so tracking your social media efforts is very important.

The most used statistics tool by webmasters is definitely Google Analytics but in Google Analytics you don’t have the Social Media Tracking added as default option and understandably so but using the advance segments you can track all your social media traffic in Google Analytics very easily.

Create Social Media as Custom Segment in Google Analytics

Under Advance Segments Create a New Custom Segment. Advance Segments Link can be found just under the navigation menu.

Add an OR condition for each social media site as source of traffic.

Give a name to the segment and save it. Once saved you can compare your custom segments you just created with the default segments provided by Google Analytics.

And track vital statistics for your social media campaigns.

Update: In old Google Analytics interface you will find the Advance Segment Option is in the left panel. Rest is pretty much same as new interface.

What are the other ways to track social media traffic? Share in comments below

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As Google’s +1 Button gathers more data it will become part of Google search results algorithm but according to me Google +1 will fail drastically when implemented in search algorithm for multiple reasons.

1. +1 requires Google profile

Making a Google Profile a requirement for +1 buttons is a move on Google’s part to match Facebook’s user profiles. The aim of Google is to have more Google profiles which mean Google has more personal and demographic information about user than it has currently. The motivation for Google is obvious. It needs more user personal data to show more and more related ads to you.

2. +1 May be for SEO Spammers

Google Panda update took a big toll on search engine spammers but with +1 Google will open doors once again for spammer. Google +1 is clearly showing signal that it can give you search ranking benefits where as with Facebook like button, user only recommends the content to their friends. The more motivated user of +1 would be a person intensely interested in search engine ranking.

3. +1 in Google SERP’s May be useless

I am not sure if I could ever judge from Google Results (Read Google search result excerpt) the quality of a site or content. If a user doesn’t know the quality of a page before a visit, how can they honestly click on +1 for it? In short, Google needs other ways to gather data before they can show recommendation and so they need to convince webmaster’s to have the +1 button installed on their site.

4. Google needs Friend Information

Google is focusing more on getting user profiles but for +1 to work on search results page they also need to find people I know i.e. my friends. If I click on +1 it does not make sense to have the same recommendation shown to me again because I anyway know it is good but it makes lot more sense if my friends see my +1. How will Google gather information about people I know can be tricky and I hope it’s not using the GMail’s address book?

What Google +1 means to you? Share your views in comments below.

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I am moving my domains out of GoDaddy into Namecheap and I did not found a clear article with clear instructions to transfer a domain out of GoDaddy and so I am trying to give you 3 simple steps to get your domain out of GoDaddy.

1. Unlock Domain and Get Transfer Authorization code

Login to your GoDaddy Account and visit the Domain control. Visit the domain you want to transfer out of GoDaddy.

Unlock the domain if you see it as Locked. See 1 in screenshot above.

Once the domain is unlocked, click on the Send by Email link to get authorization code for your domain. You will get the following email from GoDaddy with your transfer authorization code.

2. Initiate the Transfer from other Registrar

Now you can transfer the domain to any other registrar of your choice. All you have to be doing is initiate the transfer process and add the domain authorization code you have from step 1. In Namecheap you can do that at the time of initiating the transfer and they term it as EPP code.

Once you have made the purchase expect a series of emails from both the domain registrar.

3. Accept Domain Transfer Request

You should see the following looking email. Approve the transfer.

Once the transfer is initiated expect the following email from GoDaddy.

See the text I have underlined in Green. Ideally you can do nothing and transfer will complete in 5 days but you can visit your GoDaddy Domain control panel and accept the pending transfers to transfer your domain immediately to the new registrar.

After you accept the transfer you will get a final confirmation email from GoDaddy.

All done from your end but at times it may take some time for the domain to show up in the list of domains in the new registrar list.

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If you are trying to optimize vBulletin for better user experience, content delivery network can definitely help especially MaxCDN which can help make your site load faster and boost your SEO effort.

MaxCDN plugin for vBulletin is for vBulletin 4+. If you are using vBulletin 3.8 or lesser and have no plans to move to vBulletin 4, you can still use MaxCDN.

If you have any issues you can always post in comments and I will be more than happy to help or else you can even hire me at Elance to get it done for you.

1. Creating Pull Zone in MaxCDN

We will create two pull zones in MaxCDN – One for images and the second for clientscripts.

Images will be pulled from your forumroot/images folder and clienscripts will be pulled from forumroot/clienscripts. Once you have created both the pull zone verify that you are able to browse through the images as well as the CSS files

As an example:

www.mbaguys.net/images/misc/mbaguyslogo.gif

Becomes

mbaguys1.g4estatic.com/misc/mbaguyslogo.gif

Make sure both the URLs are working.

Remember you need to create the CName record for your domain.

Once you have the images being pulled into MaxCDN create the second pull zone for the Clienscripts folder. Nomenclature I follow is <SomeName>1 for Images and <SomeName>2 for clientscripts i.e. mbaguys1.g4estatic.com for Images and mbaguys2.g4estatic.com

Once you have the pull zone part done, we will make changes in vBulletin to use the new image and CSS paths.

2. vBulletin Image Paths

Admin CP > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > and select StyleVars from combobox. Edit the Image Paths to the new URLs

• images/buttons becomes http://mbaguys1.g4estatic.com/buttons
• images/misc becomes http://mbaguys1.g4estatic.com/misc

And so on for all the image paths.

3. vBulletin Replacement Variable

We will need few replacement variables to be configured to change the other Image paths like Post Icons. Visit Admin CP > Styles & Templates > Replacement Variable Manager and create the following Replacement Variables.

Search for Text : src="images/
Replace with Text : src="http://New_Images_CName_Path/

For me it becomes

src="images/ to src="http://mbaguys1.g4estatic.com/

Similarly for Clienscripts Create 3 more replacement variables.

1. href="clientscript to href="http://New_Clientscript_CName_Path
2. src="clientscript to src="http://New_Clientscript_CName_Path
3. url("clientscript to url("http://New_Clientscript_CName_Path

Once you have the above replacement variables in place browse through your forum to see everything is working fine. You can check the source of you HTML webpage to see all the images and clientscripts are being fetched from the new URLs or can wait for few seconds to see the hit reports in MaxCDN as well.

If everything is working fine we will move to custom avatars and other images which needs to be moved to the images folder for it to be using MaxCDN.

4. Custom Avatars and Images

To Move the custom avatars and other user images to be served from CDN all you have to do is move them under the images folder and everything will be taken care of automatically by the replacement variable. Make sure you have the URLs Relative to your forum home.

Visit Admin CP > Avatars > User Picture Storage Type and change the

1. Avatars to be served from the filesystem at ./images/customavatars and URL is images/customavatars relative to forumhome
2. Profile pictures to be served from the filesystem at ./images/customprofilepics and URL is images/customprofilepics relative to forumhome
3. Signature pictures to be served from the filesystem at ./images/signaturepics and URL is images/signaturepics relative to forumhome

Similarly change the Social Groups > Social Group Icon Storage Type and User Albums > Album Picture Storage Type under the forumroot/images folder

Hope this helps fellow forum admin’s. Share your views and feedback in comments below.

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Clickbank does not allow you to have different sales page for your affiliates especially the super affiliates. I wanted to have a different sales page for some of my super affiliates and so created this plugin. I have gone through the Clickbank terms and condition where I did not found anything that is against this plugin provided you redirect users to new sales page which follows Clickbank’s sales page guidelines.

If you would like to get started with Clickbank check out Step By Step Guide to Start Selling With Clickbank

Installation

1. Download the Zip file. Extract the php file inside it and Upload the file at wp-content/plugins.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Open the plugin configuration page, which is located under Settings -> Clickbank Multi Sales page and enter the Redirection URLs one affiliate per line in the form of affiliateid|URL.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I get the affiliate id of my affiliates?

There are multiple ways to get the affiliate id of your affiliates.

1. Ask them. You can ask your super affiliates what is their Clickbank id so you can customize sales page for them.
2. Use your clickbank reports to know who your super affiliates are? Offer them a custom sales page.

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Let us track Clickbank Sales into Google Analytics e-commerce tracking platform without using Goals. Make sure you have selected e-Commerce profile as Yes in your Google Analytics Website profile. If you have not opted for an e-Commerce site profile edit profile and select e-Commerce.

Once you are done with the settings, grab your Analytics code for the site. The sample code looks like

<script type="text/javascript">

  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-XX']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  })();

</script>

Now let us follow Google Analytic’s e-commerce guidelines to add Clickbank transactions into Google Analytics. Let me quote the basic process from the link.

1. Create a transaction object – Use the _addTrans() method to intialize a transaction object. The transaction object stores all the related information about a single transaction, such as the order ID, shipping charges, and billing address. The information in the transaction object is associated with its items by means of the order IDs for the transaction and all items, which should be the same ID.
2. Add items to the transaction – The _addItem() method tracks information about each individual item in the user’s shopping cart and associates the item with each transaction via the orderId field. This method tracks the details about a particular item, such as SKU, price, category, and quantity.
3. Submit the transaction to the Analytics servers - The _trackTrans() method confirms that a purchase has occurred, and all data that has been built up in the transaction object is finalized as a transaction.

First we will need to grab the transaction details that Clickbank passes to our thanks page. I will use PHP as sample but this can be extended to other web languages very easily.

<?php 

$cb_item=$_REQUEST['item'];
$cb_affiliate=$_REQUEST['cbaffi'];
$cb_receipt=$_REQUEST['cbreceipt'];
$cb_cname=$_REQUEST['cname'];
$cb_cemail=$_REQUEST['cemail'];
$cb_ccountry=$_REQUEST['ccountry'];

$net_amount = 19.97;
if($cb_affiliate!='0') $net_amount = 0.3*$net_amount;
?>

Note that you need to change the $net_amount to your product price in Clickbank.

If a sale is done through an affiliate you can adjust the amount as well. I give my affiliates 70% commission and so for an affiliate sale I reduce my net amount accordingly.

if($cb_affiliate!='0') $net_amount = 0.3*$net_amount;

Once you have the needed variables in your code you need to prepare the transaction as per Google’s guidelines.

_gaq.push(['_addTrans',
    '<?php echo $cb_receipt; ?>', // order ID - required
    'XXXXXXXX',                   // affiliation or store name
    '<?php echo $net_amount; ?>', // total - required
    '0',                          // tax
    '0',                          // shipping
    'Any',                        // city
    'Any',                        // state or province
    '<?php echo $cb_ccountry; ?>' // country
  ]);

  _gaq.push(['_addItem',
    '<?php echo $cb_receipt; ?>', // order ID - required
    '999',                        // SKU/code - required.
    'XXXXXXXXXXX',                // product name
    'ebook',                      // category or variation
    '<?php echo $net_amount; ?>', // unit price - required
    '1'                           // quantity - required
  ]);
  _gaq.push(['_trackTrans']); //submits transaction to the Analytics servers

Once we have the code for the transaction we will insert this Code into the Google Analytics code we generated before. So final code becomes -

<script type="text/javascript">

  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-XX']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  _gaq.push(['_addTrans',
    '<?php echo $cb_receipt; ?>', // order ID - required
    'XXXXXXXX',                   // affiliation or store name
    '<?php echo $net_amount; ?>', // total - required
    '0',                          // tax
    '0',                          // shipping
    'Any',                        // city
    'Any',                        // state or province
    '<?php echo $cb_ccountry; ?>' // country
  ]);

  _gaq.push(['_addItem',
    '<?php echo $cb_receipt; ?>', // order ID - required
    '999',                        // SKU/code - required.
    'XXXXXXXXXXX',                // product name
    'ebook',                      // category or variation
    '<?php echo $net_amount; ?>', // unit price - required
    '1'                           // quantity - required
  ]);
  _gaq.push(['_trackTrans']); //submits transaction to the Analytics servers

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  })();

</script>

If you are copying the above code make sure to replace XXXX string with appropriate details.

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