Closure of Yahoo! Geocities?

[joyblogs]

Lately, Yahoo! announced that they will close Geocities soon for sure ..So, I face problem here because I have a lot of files save there..How do I safe it all? Is there anyelse free database like yahoo! geocities??

Important Announcement

After careful consideration, Yahoo! has decided to close GeoCities later this year.

You can continue enjoying your GeoCities service until then — we just wanted you to let you know about the closure as soon as possible. We'll share more details this summer. For now, please visit the help center for more information.

[Dubbya]

Good! I'm glad to see it go. So many of the sites hosted there have been hacked and overrun by spammers.

This page should be of use to you:
http://www.thesitewizard.com/webhost...eocities.shtml

If you've got internet access at home, check with your Internet Service Provider (ISP). You may already have web space on their server assigned to you, most likely for free.

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[joyblogs]

Thats why yahoo closing geocities..I get it now!!

thx for the info..

[joyblogs]

I am finding somewhere else to back up all my data..thx..I will always be keep in touch here.

[weegillis]

What you could do is create a new domain with a new host. 1and1 will throw in the domain with even a basic plan. You can upgrade later. Your out of pocket will be less than twenty bucks.

Move your content from Geocities and set up meta re-directs on the main pages: home, sitemap, about, privacy, contact, etc. and replace those pages with a simple page that tells users they are being re-directed. Give it 15-30 seconds delay before you jump. SEs will understand if you follow the next step.

Add the new domain to your WT profile as soon as it is propagated (you can access it via WWW and upload G's and Y's verify html). Create a Google sitemap as quick as you can that points to the new site's core pages (especially). You can expand on it once your domain is indexed.

It will be especially helpful if your existing site(s) are indexed and registered in WT. But no matter. As you relocate pages to their new domain, they can be added to your xml sitemap and deleted from their old location. Once they return 404, they can be successfully removed from G's index.

Be sure your navigation points from at least one (any) indexed page to any page you install anew, else it will be missed in subsequent crawls.

Be careful not to remove the core pages into which you have installed your re-directs. Eventually you will have just those pages remaining. At that point, Geocities can do what they want. You'll be up and away without skipping a beat.

[joyblogs]

thx for the suggestion here..but could you suggest me, the best hosting and the cheaper domain to buy? I would like to buy them seperately..

[imrankhalid]

its really sad , i remeber in 2001 i made my first site on geocities and its still running very good ,

[joyblogs]

There are a few reasons why Yahoo closed geocities..hmm

[joyblogs]

all pictures has been saved to other database already..thanks for support here..any update do post here...

[joyblogs]

Yahoo! geocities still on?