How the IIS SEO Toolkit Saved My Butt

Ok, it wasn’t necessarily my ass that was saved, but it was years worth of images which were important to me! As I wrote yesterday , my blog’s hosting server had a hard-drive failure effectively wiping out my virtual machine, taking my blog down with it. Fortunately, I was able to get back up with a static archive of my site provided by Rich Skrenta, but I was missing all my images and other content (code samples). As Jeff mentions, I have learned the hard way that there are almost no organizations spidering and storing images on the web. Keep in mind that the images are not just mere eye candy. In many cases, they serve to illustrate key concepts: “ As you can see in the screenshot above, if the screenshot were still to exist, but through the...(read more)