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WebProWorld Members,
Are you all almost ready for the weekend? I sure am. It is a cloudy and rainy day here in Kentucky and it's making everyone at work want to go home and take a nap. But, if we did that, you wouldn't get your daily dose of WebProWorld, so I guess it's good we stayed at work. Hehe. ;)
Our featured post today comes from amxfan, who has some questions about discontinued products and broken links on ecommerce sites. Amxfan says different products become discontinued about once a month. They are quickly removed from the site, but Google still crawls these pages and Google reports them as broken links in webmasters tools. What is the best way to handle this? Click here!
As for the remaining three post, the first needs help reorganize feedburner links. The second has a question about site statistics. And the third wants your opinion on Constant Contact vs Outlook.
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Search Engine Optimization Forum
 Discontinued Products And Broken Links
I have two questions here that I would really appreciate some info on.
First Question
On an e-commerce site, when a product becomes discontinued what is the best way to handle this to prevent broken links?
I run a few different e-commerce sites and about once a month different products become discontinued. I quickly remove them from the site and update my site map, but Google, and I guess other search engines, still crawl these pages and Google reports them as broken links in webmasters tools. What is the best way to handle this? I have tried several to help me out with this, including setting a redirect back to the main page on a 404 error. This worked rather well, but Google did not like it as it reported a status 200 and not a status 404. This was quickly removed. I have also tried to leave the pages, but removing all links to them. This also worked until customers who either followed a cached link or a bookmark, and placed an order. Going into the cart and putting out of stock or no longer available for every product can be overwhelming, so removing the pages is the easiest, but I am getting Google reporting broken links.
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http://mybranford.com/map
I've been working with the Yahoo Map Flash API into a fullscreen application. Now begins the tedious process of populating it. My Branford - Branford, Connecticut. Comments welcome.
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Web Programming Discussion Forum
Reorganize Feedburner Links
Hi guys, im working on this site: Capital Health WW-MD's Notes
If you notice after each blog post there is the following:
Email the author • Save to del.icio.us • Add to del.icio.us • Digg This! • View CC license • Email this • Share on Facebook • Subscribe to this feed • Discuss on Newsvine • Stumble It! • Add to Mixx!
From looking at the code I found the above is generated via a javascript - as follows:
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Search Engine Optimization Forum
Site Statistics
I have a site that is managed and hosted by a third party. I can only change content not backend code. I own the domain name and manage the nameservers . The service does not provide site statistics for visitors. What are my options to get precise stats, ip addresses of visitors, etc? Should I create another site I can manage, capture the traffic first and have it do redirects to the unmanaged site?
Please don't advise to get another hosting providor as this is an ASP type model and it is not option.
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Marketing Strategies Discussion Forum
Constant Contact Vs Outlook
I just completed my first Constant Contact newsletter. (fwiw..$11,000.00 in sales in under 45 hrs of publication). I kept the newsletter ridiculously simple.....just announced my companys new contact number.
My friend who does the same line of work I do asked whats the difference between an "Outlook Express" campaign vs a Constant Contact one.
Quite frankly I don't know. Is there any reason I **should** be paying $30/ month to Constant Contact instead of shooting off mass emails via OE?
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