Export Links including Categories
March 10th, 2010
There will come a time soon, when you find your
self creating 3, 4 or maybe more blogs all targetting keywords in the same niche, particularly if you are making money with the Commission Ritual methods.
Because WordPress doesn’t advertise the fact that it can export as well as import blogroll links you may well find yourself spending hour after hour copying and pasting links from one blog to the next and then again to the next and so on.
But it doesn’t have to be like that.
There are a couple of plugins which do an excellent job of exporting links.
The first is called Blogroll OPML Export and was suggested to me by Rochelle at Niche Store Strategies Blog.
After downloading, installing and activating the plugin you are prompted to export your blogroll links to a text file (with .opml extension – NOT .txt)
Then you go to your new blog and click on tools/import/blogroll and the plugin will import your blogroll and let you choose which category to place them in.
The second, and my preferred plugin is called ‘Import Blogroll With Categories‘. Not a particularly inspiring name, but the plugin does EXACTLY what it say on the can!
I think it is easier to use as well.
Install the plugin on both blogs. One the blog which has links, from the links menu click export. You will be presented with a html page of your links in opml format. Highlight and copy the url.
Next, on your new blog, from the links menu click, import. One the screen that open up paste in the url you copied and hit enter. Your links are now all imported and categorised.
There are lots of options with this plugin such as creating categories or importing from a saved file etc etc. But for me it works perfectly out of the box.
Dave….
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