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Posted by Kentor on 10/11/06 19:29
Thats a good idea but after a certain period of time... I will need to
eventually remove the post and remove the page.... otherwise the
database will contain extremely old records... and thats not very great
for the user
Steve wrote:
> "Kentor" <kentor@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1160585832.003404.223940@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> | Hello,
> | how can I tell search engines when pages have been removed....
> | Lets say an apartment has been listed and appears this way in the url:
> | www.mysite.com/details.php?post=123 ..... once the apartment has been
> | rented and the owner removes his listing this page will appear but will
> | say that the postid does not exist anymore... but if there are a few
> | apartments that have been removed and search engines crawl all of them
> | they will see it as duplicate content which will give me a penalty...
> | how should this be taken care of? Would a 301 redirect to the index
> | page be the best solution or maybe create a personalized error document
> | not found page for my website and tell search engines about it and that
> | would have a link to the home page? or... ? :)
>
> ok, you've described what you want to happen...but, you need to see that
> milking a cow and milking a bull are *totally* different things! since we
> aren't idiots nor in the business of harvesting bovine semen, let's just
> milk the cow, shall we? fuck the search engines! they don't want to get
> *shit* from you remotely close to what you want to give...they aren't in
> business FOR YOU.
>
> anyway, whatever link they provide a user is what the user will use to get
> to you. there should be nothing new there. since 'post=123' was originated
> by YOU, you should have TOTAL control of what a page displays (or redirects)
> ON YOUR SERVER...which is *your* job.
>
> you should be looking up 'post=123' in your db to find out its information
> (including status) anyway, right? so just show the damn house and throw a
> transparent SOLD image over the page OR...be customer oriented and not only
> show it as sold but, beneth it, put two or three other listings of SIMILAR
> properties with the caption: "This property has been sold. However, you may
> find these interesting and well worth a look."
>
> this assumes that your 'details.php' page truly is dynamic and not static
> and tied only to one property - you make it sound like the latter though.
> don't go throwing html errors to a browser that a page doesn't exist WHEN IT
> DOES!
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