404 Hurricane Update Page After?
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Hi All,
I am wondering if anyone could help me decide how I should go about handling a page i plan on removing and could possibly use later on.
So, a perfect example is:
Let's say a company in Florida posted a page about the stores hours and possibly closing due to the incoming hurricane. Once the hurricane passes and the store is reopened, should I 404 that page since another hurricane could come after? The url for the company is www.company.com/hurricane so this is a url that we would want to use again.
I guess we could just 410 and name each url www.company.com/hurricane-irma & www.company.com/hurricane-jose for each new hurricane.
I am just wonder what is the best practice for a situation like this.
Thanks for the help!
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Thanks.
Yea, I did consider those options. I assumed there was a more complicated way to do this then deleting the page and then re-creating it after. All of those make sense though. Thank you for your time. Much appreciated.
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Hello Aua,
Your problem is about Google or about leaving the page accesible for users?
Im thinking in some possible ways to handle this, depending in the case:- Leave the page live and just make it non indexable with a robots no index tag. This way just prevent user to find the page searching in google.
- Edit the page just tell the visitors that the page will show information when it is needed.
- Delete the page (or unpublish it, if you are with a CMS like a wordpress) and create it again when neede. This way it will make Google to de index the page. Of course, the must be a personalized 404 error page in that site.
Did I help you? Or just offer you options that you´ve already considered?
Best luck.
GR.
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