How to show hidden files on macOS.

How to show hidden files on macOS. How to view and edit files starting with dot ( like .htaccess ) in macOS?
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How to download an entire website from Google Cache?

If the website was recently deleted, but the Wayback Machine didn't save the latest version, what you can do to get the content? Google Cache will help you to do this. All you need is to install this plugin -

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How to recover deleted YouTube videos?

Sometimes you can see this "Video unavailable" message from Youtube. Usually it means that Youtube has deleted this video from their server. But there is an easy way how to get it from the Wayback Machine. Firstly, you need a Youtube video link. It looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vpS_-nN3JM  The last symbols after watch?v= is a code of the video.
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How to hide your backlinks from competitors?

If you are making a PBN (Private Blog Network) , then you probably didn’t really want other webmasters to know where you get your backlinks. A large number of services are involved in backlink and keyword analysis, the most famous of which are Majestic, Ahrefs, Semrush. All of them have their own bots that can be blocked. One way is to write Disallow rules for these bots in the robots.txt file, but then this file will be visible to everyone, and this may turn out to be one of the footprints by which you can identify the website as a part of your PBN competitor backlink analysis.
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How to restore websites from the Web Archive - archive.org. Part 3

Choosing “BEFORE” limit when restoring websites from archive.org. When domain expires, domain provider or hoster’s parking page may appear. When entering such a page, the Internet Archive will save it as fully operational one, displaying the relevant information on the calendar. If you restore a website from the calendar by such a date, then instead of a normal page will see that mentioned parking page. How can I avoid such a problem and find out the working date of all website pages in order to restore it?
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How to restore websites from the Web Archive - archive.org. Part 2

In the previous article we examined archive.org operation, and in this article we will talk about a very important stage of site restoring from the Wayback Machine that relates to domain preparation for restoring. This step gives confidence that you will restore the maximum content on your website.
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How to restore websites from the Web Archive - archive.org. Part 1

Web Archive Interface: Instructions for the Summary, Explore, and Site map tools. For reference: Archive.org (Wayback Machine - Internet Archive) was created by Brewster Cale in 1996 about at the same time when he founded Alexa Internet, a company that collects statistics on website traffic. In October of that year, company started archiving and storing copies of web pages.
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