I have about 20,000 PLR articles on my computer. They are in either .txt or .doc format... some have #tags and keywords, some have headlines. They are all unzipped to folders just as I received them each month from my various subscriptions (Article Underground, Article Lightning, Private Label Monthly etc). Can I put them in a database and somehow serve them up as website content? I sort of know what I want to do, but I have no idea how to do it. Any idea's?
It wouldn't be that difficult to do it, however how you would do it would vary by what kind of web server you have, and what kind of server side language you would want to use so specific advice would depend on those factors. The main difficultly is getting the 20000 articles transcribed into the database in a meaningful way, it would be easier just to buy an article database if you can. Another difficult thing is getting such a large number of articles displayed in an easy to find format, generating big tables of contents, keeping links maintained, doing URL rewriting on the articles to make the URLs SEO friendly etc. I imagine there are scripts out there that do this kind of thing, its just a case of finding one. Jen
You can install a wordpress blog, and start copy paste from your txt/word files... Time consuming, but probably will be the easiest thing to do, specially when you are new to web "scriptting". Wordpress also allows a "time stamp" feature, where you can post multiple articles with a time stamp set sometime in future. The article won't show on site before that date you have set. If it gets tidious (20,000 articles), you can pay someone to do the copy paste for you. Edit----- If all the articles were in "txt" format, a script can be written to automate the copy paste "on the website / webserver". Then you just need to upload the txt files. Or, a script which uses these flat text files as data source, instead of mysql... Bye
instead of a database why not do a search engine that looks at a.) folder names b.) file names c.) keywords in files. Then pull out the file to display
Thanks for posting replies guys. JenniP... this is more or less along the lines I was thinking, but I don't have a clue how. JEET... you have a good idea, I guess the files could be sorted into niches (broad or narrow) and fed to multiple niche blogs. sadcox66... I don't understand what you are trying to explain. Could you expand on it please?