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Link Organisation
By genie | September 5, 2007
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Have you ever been at a friends place and said I’ll show you that page – and then couldn’t remember its URL correctly? Have you typed an URL under text in a hyperlink and not found out till weeks later that you typed ///, that is three of these / instead of two, and the link goes to a 404? Have you tried to hide a product name, to make it hard to guess for your download folder, and named it 45893245438ofnfrbg and then later you had to open an ftp connection to go see what it was, so that you could create a link to it? Or simply left off the question mark in a title URL (eg. - /Which_golf_article?) when you wanted to look at a page, because you forgot that you put it there in the first place.
Link urls are the deeds in an Internet marketers investment portfolio. Without link organisation, finding your assets can be a constant problem. This is especially true if you only want to show a page to your subscribers or those following a search or an advertisement, but you don’t want to have it linked to an index or other main page with a menu. The only (almost) failsafe solution is to copy an url from the address bar and paste it somewhere so that when you need to find it, you can.
Now, I don’t mean on a random notepad file, saved in a folder called ‘miscellaneous’ and titled ‘remembertodothis4’ - or a scribbled link on an envelop, tucked among a pile of instructions and installation print outs (that you’ll file away one day) that is currently just on the left side of your keyboard! If you are a filer, and not a piler, you may be horrified by this sentence; but the rest of you know what I am saying, because you’ll be looking ruefully at the same pile I have on my desk, despite my best intentions.
Business Organisation is as important to your sanity as paying your bills is. I can only suggest this as a solution and I know you will defensively say ‘I don’t have time for that’, but what can I say? Half a day getting organised can save you half an hour when you’re creating something with a deadline, and over a month, you will have gained back the time you took to organise, by being organised.
It can also save you from many dead links and unexpected error logs on your site that just might have been a sale otherwise. Unless of course you managed to get around to setting up those sale pages on your 404’s, in which case you may have inadvertently made a sale! Even disorganised pilers get lucky sometimes.
How can I do this? I asked myself that and I tried a few things, and then serendipitously I came across a program. What I needed to create was a database that was easy to refer to. When in place, you can use it easily for every snippet or link that comes your way. When you are done creating this, you could go on and create a new database to organise that entire arsenal of product that’s sitting on your hard drive - but that’s another story.
The program I originally found was a free version but I upgraded to Pro, because it was a little unstable. The system works great, although adding the backlog to it is still a work in progress, but it works like a granted wish! I’m so happy with how easy it makes things that I wrote a report on how to do it and I’ll have that ready by Monday 10th September. I’ll broadcast the Genie Tips list when it’s ready, so if you’re interested, sign up below.
Using the Link Organisation system can help you achieve regular blog posts, pings, profiles, pages and additional cross links that you’ve been constantly meaning to do. It can help you feel that you really do know your business. More than anything else though it will help you find what you are looking for when you are looking for it - without using windows search or opening a zillion folders in case ‘it might be there’.
Create your own Links Organisation database with this system and anything you want to find will be there. Maintain it and know that everything will always be there.You’ll be amazed how much easier it is to do this.
Then back it up somewhere. Regularly .
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