This is to remind ListBot members that if they fail to down-
load their ezine archives and subscriber lists from ListBot
that it will be too late on August 20. But the best news is
that moving your archives to your own site increases your
search engine ranking and relevance! It is really worth it!
"How soon not now becomes never."
-- Martin Luther
Here's how you do it folks. Log in to your ListBot List Owner
Control Center and highlight your list, click the link labled,
"View Archive" choose your first issue from the archive list
and then go to your browser menu and click on the "View Page
Source" from the "Edit" menu. Scroll down past all the stuff
on the page until you reach the HTML tag marked [pre] and
select everything until you reach the [/pre] tag which follows
your ezine text and select "copy" from the "Edit" menu.
These tags keep your formatting intact without using alot of
extra HTML as you paste it into your own web pages and upload
to your own site using FTP.
Go to your HTML editor or word processing program and paste
all of that selection into a fresh document and save it as
"archive01.htm". Now to your next issue in the archive and do
the same thing over and over and over again until you're done.
Renaming each page sequentially, or better yet, with keywords
important to topics discussed in each newsletter for search
engine ranking and relevancy increases.
It took me about 4 days of this before I had my entire ezine
archive from ListBot copied and uploaded to my own site for
safekeeping. You can take a look at my own archive to see an
effective naming scheme using keywords in title tags, metatags
and body copy, then creating text links from those keywords
and using appropriate titles. Take a look at:
http://website101.com/free_ezine_content/
Check each of the pages to see that every one has different
tags, title, metatags and text links making keywords important.
This alone makes the sore typing fingers worth something for
all the work it takes. Archiving means more content for your
site, which increases search engine rank as well. It's worth it.
I've always known that archiving my own newsletter would help
increase search engine ranking and relevance for my web site.
I just put it off for so long that it took four days to do
what could have been done weekly and taken five minutes a week
for the last two-and-one-half years! OW! My achin' shoulders!
Carpal Tunnel has my wrists throbbing!
I think we're gonna have a bunch of really weary former ListBot
members very sore by August 20, when ..
.
"The ListBot service will be turned off completely.
All ListBot servers will be shut down and all data
will be unavailable. Please retrieve any information
you need before this date, since (is) inaccessible
from this date on."
Don't forget to get your subscriber lists while you are there.
ListBot instructions for that task are as follows:
"To download your lists, click on "View Members" in the
ListBot control center. Then click on "Download All" or
"Download Demographics" to download your list subscribers.
If you have problems with this process during peak times,
please try again during off-peak hours."
I'm pretty well peaked right now! Damn! I'll never use free
services again as long as I live! I swear I won't! Well,
maybe the free email service and then there's that free bill
paying service and the free messaging service and the free ...
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WebSite101 "Reading List" Weekly Netrepreneur Tip Sheet
Weekly Ezine emphasizing small business on the Internet
http://website101.com/free_ezine_content/.
E-tutorial online at: http://website101.com/shortcourse.html.
By week's end you're ready expand your business to the web!
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