Updating old dated pages or making new ones?

[CobraJones95]

Hey All,

I'm working on a project that relies on deals with specific dates like a fair or rodeo. However, fairs happen every year during the same time.   I'm not sure if I should delete the old ones or updated them with new information.  What do you suggest?

[EGOL]

Place these pages on a permanent URL.  Then update the content of that page as needed.

If you change the URL then all of the people who linked to your event page will then see their links hit old information or hit an error page if you delete the page.  And, you don't want to do a new redirect every year.

We link to some academic sites that change their URLs frequently.  We are always cussing about them.

[vmialik]

If you have great links pointing to the old dated pages, just update them with new information. Generally its better not to have outdated info on your site, but sometimes pages are left, even if dated, as they have great links pointing to them. This gives you best of both, as long as the link does not say site.com/fair-2012 and you are adding new info to it. Might want to keep it general and not date specific.

Hope this helps

[CobraJones95]

This is great thank you for the insight!

[CobraJones95]

This does help. Thank you for taking the time to answer!