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When to 404 a gallery?
I know that you are supposed to keep a page up after submitting it, but for how long?
I know that I still get traffic to my first gallery every, but I never get anymore conversions from the really old pages. I suspect that this type of surfer is just crusing archives and will never convert. so, should I 404 a gallery after some arbitrary amount of time? Like autodelete after 3 months? Will this get me banned on the bigger TGP sites? Any comments or thoughts? |
smack
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I leave mine up for good.
If someone archives your gallery or "steals" it from another site, you may find yourself blacklisted somewhere you've never even submitted before, but may want to in the future. I've got pages over a year old and they still pop up in the weirdest places. I deleted galleries ONCE to clear up some disk space and spent the entire next day writing emails trying to clear my name. I'll never go through that again. A dedicated box is worth it if only for that reason alone. I'd suggest YOU archive your old galleries on to one page, and then when someone asks "I need galleries for my tgp", send them on to your site. Just my :2 cents: |
It will definately get you banned
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i have galleries that get hundreds of google hits a month. I dont think I'd want to 404 any of them.
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See! Thats why I ask!
I'll leave them up |
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You can use php and have it do some really cool stuff with your galleries, I have it wrap the pictures in html after 90 days, and it add's 2 more text links to the page after it's 90 days old. After 1 year I have a pop under that comes up to my traffic hub, I currently get around 1000 unq a day just to that hub from my old galleries, and SE stuff that has found me through spidering the site. This is another reason to have your own paid hosting, or at least use one of the freehosts that allow you to use your own domain, so you don't loose that valuable SE traffic !! If you'd like a sample of the php page, just let me know and I'll post one. Tim :Graucho |
6 months.
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I've had a couple of people email me about how to do this, so I will just post it here. It's pretty simple actually, all you have to do is deciede what you want the page to look like before the time deadline and what you want to look like after and put some if statements in :) Hope it helps.
Tim :Graucho PHP Code:
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I think the better question is. If and when you see your older galleries in a search. Do you remove any recips to it?
I guess you could look and see if the page is still listed and go by that. |
> should I 404 a gallery after some arbitrary amount of time?
> Like autodelete after 3 months? Never 404..... old & archive galleries do convert better than people say. You always end up with the odd good few signs if youre galleries were worth anything to start with (design-wise). Put em up and keep em live .... |
its advisable not to redirect/remove any page
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