[thelist] Errors on site check after removal of pictures from remote server REPLY

[John C Bullas]

At 17:20 19/10/2003, Sylvia Braunstein wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Some of my products are obsolete. In order to "remove them", I redirected
>the html pages to the home page but deleted the jgs and gifs from the remote
>server. The site check report gave me pages and pages of mistakes.

Check the site checker spiders your site each time you run it and doesn't 
just grab an image of your site when prompted..... "clear cache"... can you 
see that? get it to take a look at your "trimmed" site....

DELETION TIP: if you can use some PERMANENT redirect commands in .htaccess 
so any search engines that have visited the now deleted pages will update 
their records .. if it is worth it of course....

OR USE

Redirect permanent / 
<http://www.social-ecology.org/>http://www.lalalalala.org/

in a directory if you want to send all calls to that directory somewhere 
else and get the search engines updated.. great if you stopped selling 
bazookas and all the bazookas were in the /bargainbazookas/ directory

OR

Just leave each page there and edit the content down to

Product Removed click here for lalalalalalalla <hyperlink>

Adding a noindex metatag on the top and a redirect metatag for stupid 
viewers to send them to your index page or to wire-guided anti-tank weapons 
if you stopped selling bazookas

OR

pull the pages and just have a custom 404 page that will route any 
"callers" to your homepage AND tell them bazookas bandanas and  banjos are 
NLA :)... set this up right and you can remove pages as you like?

This 404 page will also serve to de-stress anyone who can't spell bazooka 
and misses a manually typed in URL OR hits a wrongly  entered hyperlink on 
another site

I AM SURE there are more complex ways to compare the missing URL called 
against a regexp and redirect it accordingly, the route I describe is 
longhand but you only need one "item removed page" you can do SAVE AS for 
each removed page from this template.

RE the size of pages, without images the item deleted pages will take up 
very little space.

FB