Geocities closing
You may have seen elsewhere that Geocities will be closing at some point this summer. An awful lot of historical BtVS fanfic is housed on Geocities sites, and in many cases, the authors have left the fandom. I gakked the list below from 
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According to the FAQ, there are ways to get pages crawled:
How can I get my site included in the Wayback Machine?
Alexa Internet has been crawling the web since 1996, which has resulted in a massive archive.
Method 1: If you have a web site, and you would like to ensure that it is saved for posterity in the Internet Archive, and you've searched wayback and found no results, you can visit the Alexa's "Webmasters" page at http://www.alexa.com/help/webmasters#crawl_site.
Method 2: If you have the Alexa tool bar installed, just visit a site.
Method 3: While visiting a site using the Internet Explorer browser, use the 'show related links' in Internet Explorer, which uses the Alexa service.
In all cases, ensure that your site's 'robots.txt' rules and in-page META robots directives do not tell crawlers to avoid your site.
Sites are usually crawled within 8 weeks of submission, sometimes much sooner. However, there is a 6-14 month lag between the date a site is crawled and the date it appears in the Wayback Machine.
I don't know what the Alexa toolbar is, but for those who have it, it could be a useful shortcut. Although, if Geocities is kaput in October and it takes 8 weeks to crawl a site, we may only have until the beginning of August really to get sites crawled. :/
(And before you ask, no, I don't know what I'm doing with my old site.)
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