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06.27.2008 at 10:13AM PDT, ID: 23522354
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SEO for temporary product pages

Asked by codeQuantum in Internet Search Engine Optimization, PHP Scripting Language, Apache Web Server

I have products page on a website that have a temporary url. When the product is sold, it is not accessible by its URL any more since it disappears from the database. Problem is, I don't want the search engines to keep visiting those old addresses...

Example url :

http://domain.com/details.php?product=131

What is the best way to manage temporary pages?

I am thinking I should use PHP to generate an .htaccess file or even a robots.txt file to ignore those urls after they have been removed... But those files will grow very large and that could be a problem. What do you think?Start Free Trial
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