Recreate an old site! ideas please

[golddiggerguy]

Has anyone stripped an old site from Archive.org as in it's no longer active/live.

A few reasons maybe

• You lost a site and you need it back and thats the next best way.
  
• You've just bought a domain with history and want to recreate the structure for Google reasons as it's still indexed and has some PR

WinHTTrack is what i would use for a live site but with it been in Archive.org it falls over. Any help ideas would be fantastico!!!

 

[Systreg]

Funny you should mention that, I was checking my online dictionary domain on the archive site last night, because although it's a .org.uk, parked and only a few weeks old, it's getting between 4-8 visits every day. I found it was archived and previously had a site on it in 2006/7, where it had links and information about various other online dictionaries, I might go and grab the remaining archived pages and bring it back to life in it's original format, it was a simple format, could jazz it up a bit, better than leaving it parked, I have had a couple of ad clicks from it on Sedo, but would do better with Adsense on it.

 

[Admin]

How many pages is it?

Use IE and do a file / save as if its only a few pages.

then edit out the archive.org bits.

 

[golddiggerguy]

I am thinking for what effort it would take, that would be the best way up to now!

Cheers

 

[Systreg]

Use IE and do a file / save as if its only a few pages.

Yeah, I usually do it the file and save as way, I just had another look at the archive, I only gave it a fleeting glance in the middle of last the night, and looking again now, it doesn't look as if it's worth using, it was actually a blog type page, I could knock up a dictionary links page myself, so I'll look to do something like that.

 

[tifosi]

Same Really. Got one planned from a quite good site that was mediawiki based. Had great content but just died, probably lack of interest by the old owner. The domains now a crap non-relevent parking page. But archive.org has all the pages from about 5years.

Will have to do the cut n past job on about 25-30pages.

S

 

[Edwin]

Copyright lasts for something like 70 years I believe, so just because it's not "active" any more, it doesn't mean that you can help yourself to the content! It's unlikely in practice that you'll experience problems, but legally you're sure to be in the wrong if you do so.

Copying the filenames and rebuilding unique, new content that corresponds to what used to be on the page before (i.e. if the page was about german shepherd dogs, take just that info and make a totally new page about german shepherd dogs) on the other hand should probably be ok.

 

[golddiggerguy]

Structure and links

I did think about TM issues and was only really thinking of recreating paths as to keep in line with Googles saved links.

Then using content but reword it too.

 

[ScottJ]

A while ago I found a really nice back pain site listed or sale on a business for sale site, when I looked into it - it had been taken down by the owner over a year previously and the domain expired so I bought the domain from the person who caught it and tracked down the owner in New Zealand and bought a copy of the site which was written by professionals for $2000 and put it all back together, did a re-inclusion request to Google and it ranked and performed well and I later sold it for a profit.

 

[tifosi]

Copyright lasts for something like 70 years I believe, so just because it's not "active" any more, it doesn't mean that you can help yourself to the content! It's unlikely in practice that you'll experience problems, but legally you're sure to be in the wrong if you do so.

Copying the filenames and rebuilding unique, new content that corresponds to what used to be on the page before (i.e. if the page was about german shepherd dogs, take just that info and make a totally new page about german shepherd dogs) on the other hand should probably be ok.

The original info was GNU licenced. So any of the original info - which would be rewritten to un-wikifiy it would be the same licence.

Agreed, it's still something to be looked at.

S

 

[tifosi]

A while ago I found a really nice back pain site listed or sale on a business for sale site, when I looked into it - it had been taken down by the owner over a year previously and the domain expired so I bought the domain from the person who caught it and tracked down the owner in New Zealand and bought a copy of the site which was written by professionals for $2000 and put it all back together, did a re-inclusion request to Google and it ranked and performed well and I later sold it for a profit.

You're my hero!!! The David Dickenson of AD!