BackupURL lets you create an immediate backup (cached) copy of the website you choose with it’s own url address. All the links remain live, and when I tried it with my website I was pleasantly surprised to find that it actually copied all the pages of my site and not just the one page address I had entered.
Initially I thought it is just teasing me by placing an iFrame bar on the top and retrieving the page live from my site, but No! The html source confirmed its a cached copy of my website. BackupUrl sort of takes a snapshot in time and makes it immediately accessible. If you want to update it, you have to enter the site address again and get a new url address for that updated site.
Few things like Flash elements and embedded videos (and ofcourse the ADS controlled from JavaScript) won’t be captured. Still, BackupURL is a cool web-tool to capture pages where content changes frequently. If you visit the website homepage, there is hardly any information out there to know the exact purpose of this service. Though it looks similar to WayBackMachine, its more like an on-demand version of it.
Why I am skeptical of BackUpURL service?
As I told you before, BackUpURL creates a cached copy of all the webpages with just one click. But I am not sure if these cached copies are indexed by search engines or not. i hope they are not. Else it might become a major SEO issue for duplicate content. I am not the right person to comment on SEO, but what do you think of it?
Oops! I forgot the link. Here it is : BackUpURL
Raju PP is the founder-editor of Technically Personal, which is one of the most widely read technology blogs on the web. He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication, and has previously worked as a Technical Specialist in Banking Software domain.
Hi
Thank you for the blog post about our new service. It is much appreciated what you are doing. Cached pages cannot be access by Google,
Google will be redirected to the original page.
Thank you.
@BackupUrl,
Thanks for clarifying. Appreciate your service
Cached copy should cache images also I think … where as this is only replacing the original image location by browse.php?id=ORIGINAL_IMAGE_LOCATION so if the original image goes down the cached copy immediately does down or is it something different ?
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