Posted by Kentor on 10/12/06 12:13

I think the best way to solve this problem is what Steve said...
display a list of listings in that city/area to the user if the actual
postid, through which he got to my website, is not available anymore...
I'll archive listings which have been removed and after lets say 60
days of being archived... i will just delete them and create a 301
redirect to my website's search page.


d43m0n AT shaw DOT ca wrote:
> What is it that you are rambling about?
>
> It might be simple just to say that it maybe possible to tell search
> engins to reset their content on existing pages, hell, what if they do
> apon re-examining a page that it may find in the future to return as a
> 404 error (thats file not found).
>
> However, what I was trying to say that apon not being able to do so,
> make this your advantage, if you were to build an online application,
> that displays apartments wether current or non existent, you should
> perhaps use md5, that way it wont be nessicary to remove your exisiting
> or prehistoric display of apartments, its simply 16 random hexidecal
> string, or 32 characters, that only preceive as digits 0-9 and a-f in
> random order, that mean appsolutly nothing, but it does look better
> then incrusive numbers that tend to get deleted, and somewhat
> unorderly.
>
> Take steve's one good idea and simple write that the apartment does not
> exsist, or not available, however, if you wish to not archive it, but
> simple change it, then do so, if the same place becomes avaible say 10
> years, change its status.
>
> Btw...Steven, your ramblings were some what irrtable, however, I found
> it nessicary to educate you on urban talk... "alot" It's cyber-speak to
> indicate a huge quantity of something. For the prudish Queen's English
> users, it's equivalent to "a lot".
>
> So lick me, ok?
>
> - Daemon
>
> /* No Comment */
> Steve wrote:
> > | To make it a hell alot simpler,
> >
> > a ....... lot
> >
> > | If search engins were to help use out, there would be no need for
> > | search engins.
> >
> > not true...the search engine in question may know where your crap is but NO
> > ONE else does! AND, people/programmers pick and choose which engines to keep
> > current, leaving a vast majority uninformed.
> >
> > |They exist more then too mearly look for exisiting data,
> > | but to archive it, make a point that it exsisted.
> >
> > not true. they already DO archive and they already DO validate whether a url
> > exists and remove as needed. or, they go out of business. that's HOW engines
> > 'deduct' from sites that have dead pages as noobgrammer explained in his op.
> >
> > | Infact, perhaps using a post idea, then the page doesn't actually
> > | exist, just a mere request will show you that it does. Yes, search
> > | engines may discover it because of an exising post on a forum persay,
> > | but you need to answer to $_GET requests, infact, if you were really
> > | smart, would look at the date of the request, check when the last key
> > | was made, and for a table with an existing key, and tell the user, this
> > | page is no longer valid...
> > |
> > | infact, a simple switch function would work,
> > |
> > | switch(search_database($_GET[])) {
> > | case "valid":
> > | echo "Its here";
> > | break;
> > | default:
> > | echo "Sorry, no longer there":
> > | break;
> > | }
> >
> >
> > oh, but the page IS valid...it's just that the unit is not currently
> > available to rent.
> >
> > | Now, I did have another idea, but asking the function first for the
> > | query, seemed a bit better. You even have other cases for other
> > | responces, or use if statments, which ever you prefor.
> >
> > what?
> >
> > | Alot of search engines will update the information, and some bots even
> > | include information about how soon to update, simple by using
> > | mysite.com/robots.txt
> >
> > a ...... lot
> >
> > why even continue this line of 'thinking'? it is rediculous to believe
> > updating a (not even all) search engines is the simplest solution when the
> > solution itself is nothing close to simple, architecturally.
> >
> > | I don't personally know how far you can go with that... but check out
> > | google bots...
> >
> > enter nuke factory here.

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