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Keeping your Social Web Backed Up
Posted by SharpTool | Posted in Internet Marketing | Posted on 21-11-2008
We get questions from Internet Marketers all the time… One of the most persistant ones is “How do I back up the content on MySpace?”. So being the power users we are, we explored some documentation about a great plugin for Firefox named ScrapBook. We installed it and put it to the test. And, you know? This works for every social website we tried!
ScrapBook is a great way to keep all that stuff you have on any number of sites organized with a local backup copy that your online backup can automatically archive for you. With one program! No fancy command lines, dealing with widgits, it saves it for you so if any of the sites go bad, you’ve got your content.
How you are wondering? We did it like this.
A First, go to the ScrapBook download page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427). Click the Install Now (bold green) and when Firefox asks, click to restart.
B Once Firefox has restarted, you’re ready to use ScrapBook.
C Click onto one of your social websites you’d like to save with ScrapBook. When your there, click “Capture Page As” on the menu.
D “Capture Page As” will let you pick the link depth you’d like to archive. This is a important! This is how you can automatically back up all the links on your page. With the depth set to zero, you wouldn’t automatically archive those extra pages. You’d be able to if it’s set to 1. But if it were set to 2, you would have saved all the secondary pages, etc.
E After you’ve selected the different options, click Capture. It’s now saved on your computer! Now, go to the ScrapBook menu and click Show in Sidebar. You’ll see the pages you’ve captured listed.
So, what do we have so far? You now have a local copy of all the content on your Squidoo, etc. page. So if anything goes south, your covered. But as they show on Cable TV… “But Wait, there’s More”.
If you have a online backup product like OPENRSM Cloudbackup on your computer just make sure that it’s configuration has your personal files selected for backup. All your social website content is backed up this way and backed up with the rest of your data. And Firefox runs on windows, Mac, and Linux all the same. Not only will your computer have a full offsite backup, but your social websites will be too.
