The title says it all. I decided to start working on the affiliate sites that are given to me each week through my purchased affiliate program. So far the program has been great until I needed to use the link to download the search and replace utility. I needed to get my AdSense ID placed in the new sites. Easy enough, I thought. Well, my first defeat was that the program would not download and froze my Internet Explorer. Okay, I Control, Alt, Delete; cancel program not responding in task manager. I figure that just maybe, since it was a free utility, that I would easily find in online. Second defeat! Oh, it was out there on many sites and none of them would download.
I pondered, what of all the collected programs I have would work to replace the text in my affiliate site pages with my AdSense ID? Answer, None! Not one of my many collections of programs would do multiple files, folders or zip files of html. Finally, I get a brainstorm. I opened up a program I purchased in a bundle deal called NVU. The site manager allowed for search and replace of html. I was excited because I thought I saw a place I could do multiple pages. Well, it can but I can't. If my websites were already live then I could change multiple pages with replacement content. Back to square one I thought.
Finally, after exploration of the drop-downs I find a search and replace. You think I would be happy - Not! I had to open each and every one of the 172 files and manually change. Thank goodness it had an option of replace all. I started last night about 9pm and just finished at 8 am. I got one site done. I have 14 more to go and they add five new ones each week.
So for now, I will be dreaming, Open, click html tab, paste id in box, replace all, save, close, and notate. I bet I am not a novice in that anymore!
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