Article Archiving for Search Engine Visibility
in SEO
by Mike Banks Valentine
Procrastinate, but Not Now!
Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow.
I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will -- tomorrow!
--Gloria Pitzer
I've been putting off writing this article because it
seemed too hard to write about something I seem
to have no control over. I'm actually writing it
5 days before deadline and don't really understand
why it has me concerned. If it were easy, it would
be done though, and I wouldn't be thinking about
it now.
The things I've done instead of writing an article
about my worst habit have been dull, tedious, slow
and irritating. But I've preferred them all to writing
about procrastination! Why do we torture ourselves
over some things by delaying them like this? In
order to avoid putting my own thoughts to the keyboard
I went to the dictionary to look up the word.
procrastinate \Pro* cras' ti*nate\, v. i.
To delay; to be dilatory
Dilatory huh? Guess I better look that up too.
dilatory \Dil' a *to* ry\, Marked by procrastination
or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish
I guess I knew that, but what can one say about something
that can't be helped. I feel as though I'm chained by
dread of action. If I get started now, that churning in
my stomach and slight twitch in my brow will turn to nausea
and a serious headache.
"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting
off a hard one makes it impossible." -- George H. Lonmer
That's it, I'll go look up some quotes on procrastination!
That will be forward motion and actually move me
toward knowing what others have thought and said
about being dilatory. Cool! Off to Google, my favorite
search engine, to find some procrastination quotes.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do
is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong
thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
At least I'm doing something! But I guess if I really
look at it, what I wanted to do was to go archive my ezine.
Did I say that I "wanted" to do that? No, I can't stand
the thought of the slow, tedious cutting and pasting of
all my text file newsletters to my online ezine archive.
"How soon not now becomes never."
-- Martin Luther
Select the text from your ezine text file including all
the stuff on the page until you reach the end, then open
your page template and type the following HTML tag <pre>
and paste in your entire ezine, followed by an ending
</pre> tag which
follows your ezine text copy.
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 page template
and save it as "procrastination.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 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 copied and uploaded to my own site for
safekeeping. You can take a look at WebSite101 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://SearchEngineOptimism.com/SEO_articles.html
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! Don't procrastinate!
I'll bet you know what comes next - If you don't
have an ezine to archive, START ONE NOW! There are
dozens more reasons to have a list of customers
that you have regular contact with than I am willing
to get into here. This site is about SEO and that's
all the reason you need to write and archive articles.
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