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We answer questions from bloggers all the time… One of the most frequent is “How do I back up my Blogger?”.  So being the high tech we are, we did some research with some documentation about a terrific plugin for Firefox named ScrapBook.  We read, downloaded, installed, and used it hard. And, you know? This works for every Web 2.0 we tried!

ScrapBook is a good way to keep all that data you have on any number of sites organized with a local copy that your internet 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 ask? Follow along and do it the easy way.

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. Once you’re there, on the menu, select Capture Page As.

D Use “Capture Page As” to set the depth of links you want to copy. This is a important! This is how you can automatically back up all the links on your page. You wouldn’t be able to copy those extra pages if the depth is set to zero. If it was set to 1, you’d be able to. However, if it was set to 2, you’d be able to click links on the second page and so on.

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’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 like they say on TV… “But we have more for you”.

If you have a online backup product like CloudBackup on your computer just make sure that it’s configuration has your personal files selected for backup. That way you can have all your social websites backed up and preserved with the rest of your computers essential data. And Firefox runs on windows, Mac, and Linux all the same.  Not only will your computer have a full online backup, but your social websites will be too.

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