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Backing up your LinkedIn page
We answer questions from Internet Marketers all the time… The most common one is “How do I backup pages on TypePad?”. So being the web heads we are, we took note some documentation about a handy plugin for Firefox titled ScrapBook. We read, downloaded, installed, and used it hard. And you know what? 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 say? Here’s how we did it.
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 Surf somewhere you’d like to 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 backs up all the links on your page automatically. If you had the depth set to 0 (zero), you wouldn’t be able to copy those extra pages. If it was set to 1, you’d be able to. But if it were set to 2, you would have saved all the secondary pages, etc.
E After picking the options you want, click Capture. You’ve now saved a copy on your computer! Now, go to the ScrapBook menu and click Show in Sidebar. You can now see the captured page list.
To review, here’s what we have so far? You now have a local copy of all the content on your LinkedIn, 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 internet attached storage product like CloudBackup on your computer just make sure that it’s configuration has your personal files selected for backup. This way all your computers essential files are backed up and your social website content is too. 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.
