Internet Business Pro by Joe Perez

Crashed WordPress?

It happens to the best of us.

You FORGOT to make a back-up of your WordPress blog and thought a new widget or plugin looked cool,..went to install it…then BAM! …you crashed your blog. I know you’re frantic, but I need you to just breathe in deeply and let it go. We have a good chance that we’ll be able to recover most, if not all, of it – IF your blog was cached by Google. That just means that your blog can’t be brand spanking new and it has/had to be visible to the search engines (in the Privacy settings in your WordPress dashboard).

Another search scenario that would have brought you here would be a violation of a WordPress hosted blog looking to recover content – due to a suspension for a violation WordPress Terms of Service. If that is the case and it was an honest mistake or post, then please read on. If you were suspended for spamming, over-zealous seo or porn, then I sincerely ask that you reconsider that dark path and let me show you the bounty in the white hat of seo and marketing. If you won’t reconsider, GET OUT! “Yer kind’s not welcome ’round here”.

What and Where is Google’s Cache?

Think of the Google cache as a massive image/text library of what Google has found on the web. It’s pretty impressive to say the least – just think of how many websites/blogs there are out there!

There are 3 ways that I access Google’s cache:

• The best ‘on the fly’ method, in my opinion, to access Google’s cache is to download the Google Toolbar. Once that is downloaded and  installed (and your browser has restarted and all that good stuff), right click the Google toolbar. Select option “Get more buttons” and grab the PageRank and Page Info button. That button (looks like a horizontal level meter) has a drop down field that gives you the option “Cached Snapshot of Page”. Go to your web address, then click the “Cached Snapshot of Page” in your new toolbar button.
• The second is just as easy and only requires a Google search to take you right to the cache! Just type CACHE: then your web address with no spaces. For example, input this in the Google search field and hit search cache:http://www.internetbusinesspro.us  (You will be taken directly to the Google cache of this blog or whichever web address you use.)
• The third method of accessing the Google cache is right on the SERP or search engine results page. Directly to the right of the url of the result.

That’s it!

Now check the Google cache for your blog’s web address and there’s your content! To access multiple posts that may have been lost, just click their links from the cached page and repreat the same method for viewing the cache for each additional url individually. (To check to see how many pages of your WordPress blog have been indexed, instead of using the Google search CACHE: , replace cache with SITE:  then your web address.)

If this doesn’t work, feel free to send me a message and I’ll be happy to try help you. Keep this Google cache fresh in your mind. My next post is going to be about using Google’s cache for WordPress SEO!

Best of success,

Joe Perez