When creating your website, are you ever cautious about trying new things like a new theme, different header logos, and plugins? I am sure you realize that anyone of these changes or upgrades can break your website if not compatible. Short of doing a full backup of your website, what should you do?

SITE RUBIX TO THE RESCUE

I have one of my Site Rubix websites, as seen below, as my test website. On this website I have a few different themes installed, all of them are from my 4 websites and I will always add one or two more should someone have a question about a specific theme, then I just delete it when done.

I also use my test Site Rubix website for trying out plugins, widgets, header images and logos before I actually use them on my live website. This way I can see beforehand if something will work and/or look right before I make any changes to my website. The last thing I want to do is make a change and it screws something else up.

And when it comes to your decision to change a theme it is nice to see what customization options are available to you before you make any changes. Every theme has different levels of customization options available. By installing a theme you can see firsthand how things look before you decide to activate that theme.

If you would like to know more about how to effectively use a Site Rubix website as your test website and customization options, click the link below for training I did a few months ago. If you have liked this training, please click the green “Like This” button or if you have a comment or question, leave that below.

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jvranjes Premium
On page 2 you write "But one thing we must not do is build a website with affiliate links within the content of the majority of pages."

There are people here making thousands of dollars every month by having only Amazon affiliate sites, with all posts/pages with affiliate links. The same is with people promoting WA. So I do not understand your sentence.
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boomergp08 Premium
What I meant is what Kyle says in his training, that affiliate links should be centralized as much as possible because Google doesn't like websites with affiliate links in the content of every page.

This does not include common spaces like side bars and footers. It's the affiliate links within the content areas that can be problematic. The majority of my affiliate links reside within the content of about 30% of my pages and posts.

Again this does not include the side bar which appears on every screen. On the pages of content without affiliate links, I have internal links going to the pages where the affiliate links reside. Or sometimes I just direct people to the banner ad I have in my side bar.
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jvranjes Premium
Thank you Robert. I appreciate your time and effort.
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BrianHansen Premium
Great info, thank you for sharing this.
- Brian
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome Brian.
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Jenna7 Premium
This is great, thanks so much for sharing. Terrific info, will use this. Thanks for all the time you give here!
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome Jenna. I enjoy helping others when I can.
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Kaitly Premium
Fabulous again, Robert, as expected! :) -Kaitly
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boomergp08 Premium
Thank you Kaitly, happy you enjoyed it.
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PjGermain Premium
Stellar training as usual Boomer!!! Cheers mate!
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boomergp08 Premium
Thanks PJ! Glad you liked it!
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