So there is a local Free newspaper that has a special edition for 4 local cities. They put out a weekly 10-20 page issue with pictures and ads for each city. I set them up with a WP build on their main domain and 3 additional domains for the other cities. They have been in business 20 years and have at least since 2007 readily available on a hard drive. Prior to that it goes back to various forms of media storage up to and including 5.25 inch floppy disks. My questions 1) Is it possible the postdate a post in Wordpress so it will appear in an older archive? 2) How much should I charge him to put this stuff on line? I mean.. time consuming yes.. hard? No.. it should just be copy and paste right? 3) How many articles can I safely add per day? 4) Does anyone know where the hell I can get an external 5.25 inch floppy drive? I am interested to hear what others would do? I am thinking that once everything they ever printed is online they would have to be getting some monster adsense checks right? Mike
1. heck ya, easy as pie. Just set the date to whatever you want. Of course the search engines will still know how old it really is....2. alot. lol. seriously, time yourself posting, say, 50 articles (so you can get a good average) and then figure up how many they have. Multiply that my how much you want to make an hour and then add 25%. Add their hosting costs and such in too and present them with the price and work from there. Also consider outsourcing it as it may be cheaper per hour and you can put money in your pocket from this project while looking for bigger fish to fry. 3. Safely? I'm not sure. Massive websites pop up on Google every day with no penalty. I've added upwards of 1,000 pages per day for weeks and saw no penalty. My PR2 site had all of it's content dumped on it at once, and it was dated from 1 yr ago till present.4. newegg.com or ebay.com if that fails.Good luck m8, you have a task ahead of you.
Set up a post scheduler so you don't have a bunch of posts on the blog. You can post date sure, but the date it is published is the date the search engines will pick up. PM me and I can help you out more if you would like.
Absolutely, dates are just an input field that you can set to anytime - having the real date on them will add value Your time could be spent doing real programming so that's the rate you charge - plus allow for project management, travel time etc Add them as quickly as you can. This isn't an MFA site with spun articles. Google will tell the difference when the content comes through with truly unique articles etc. They will see the initial load and then recognise the additions after that. eBay, ask about your neighbourhood. We have shop down here called Jaycar and they sell all sorts of amazing gadgets for legacy data (which these days includes a floppy drive)
I have a floppy just like what you are asking about I bought from ebay My .2 cents is even though the search engines will know the dates you posted said info I still would pre date them as that way your visitors know the date pertaining to the info on each page.
@Ive seen this somewhere b4 but i would just post this slowly and stretch it out If this is older content, throw them up all at once (or as fast as possible). It would not matter if you stretched it out in this scenario. If your content is original and keyword rich then it will be indexed by google. It also seems like this will contain local material? Another reason to get it up and available. Depending on your experience, I'd say this is a 10-15 dollar and hour job. If you had the automation tools to do it swiftly you could charge lump sum and try to get either more or less money relative to the time manual data entry (at the 10-15.00 per hour) would take/cost. If you could prepare the format of the article to be in this format then I know some automated softwares that could handle the publishing in one fell swoop. Title of Article <date>date/of/article</date>(Can be any date format) Article postbody content here. Code (markup):
The thing is I still don't even know what format their old content is in? I am assuming it's alot of .doc documents? Or whatever a wordprocessor writes in.. Im still trying to find that out. I can't even get them to export their email contacts for the facebook and twitter accounts. It took me a week to get across that it was something that they should do. Now we are stuck on how. They use like outlook or microsoft exchange so now I am trying to figure out how.. to explain to them how.
lol, as long as you get paid. Working with companies can be terrible. It's even worse when the company has a slow-email-response-time type work culture. Sometime's I've felt like the only way to get things done is to call the person immediately after I email them and say... "Hey I've sent you an email. I need you to check it and get back with me." ...Knowing that this person is annoyed and doesn't see the value in expediency.