Web site backups may be boring, but they’re essential to good web hygiene. Here’s the official WordPress guide to backing up your blog (and yes, you MUST back up both the site and its associated database).

Here’s how.

Another great service from Google: here are a couple of methods for finding incoming links to your site.

Here’s an indispensable link for bloggers: Google’s Webmaster Central Blog.

This handy tool will keep you in the loop regarding Google’s spiders and their policies about site indexing for Google searches.

Help make the internet a better place by cleaning out any comment spam or other nuisances that might be costing your blog precious site ranking. Remember, “you can’t do what you don’t know”–educate yourself!

Here’s a link to Google’s Official Blog; keep yourself up to date on Google’s latest innovations: Google’s Official Blog.

Here’s an indispensable tool for prolific readers of web content: Readability.

Just download this handy app, easily add it to your browser’s toolbar, & with a single mouseclick you can escape all the web page clutter (ads, images, photos, rotating banners, Bing nag screens, etc.) and get to the heart of the web page: the article you’re trying to read.

I’ve found it indispensable for web research; I can quickly scan an article and move on to the next search result without enduring all the visual distractions inherent in the modern web.

See what you think; download this great experiment here.