EverGreen Link

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What evergreen links are

An evergreen link is a small html string that you can embed into your web pages or emails to allow people to find always the latest version of a document with just a click.

Give an example: let's assume you are looking for a new job, so you put your resume on www.fakejobsearchdirectory.com, then you start sending emails to recruiting offices and posting on job search forums saying "Hello, take look at my profile on www.fakejobsearchdirectory.com/john_doe".

After a couple of months Fakejobsearchdirectory.com suddenly closes your account because of inactivity or you simply decide that you want to put your curriculum vitae on your blog.

Now you should go back to every forum you posted the link on and update it, then you have to send emails to every recruiting office you contacted before to tell them where to find the new document.

If you had used a WhereIsNow™ evergreen link in the first place, now you should just log in on your WhereIsNow™ control panel and update the information of the document containing your resume by editing its address.

From that moment on, every time somebody click on the evergreen link the WhereIsNow™ service will seamlessly redirect him to the new address. What follows is the HTML code you may use to insert an evergreen link on your pages ( in this case for document 1-1 )

<a href='http://www.whereisnow.com/KeySearch.now?publisher=[Publisher]&document=[Document]' title="Check on WhereIsNow™" style="text-decoration: none;" target='_blank'>
(<img src='http://www.whereisnow.com/img/w_now.gif' /> [Publisher] - [Document])
</a>

Remember to replace [Publisher] and [Document] with the keys of your document.

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