Expired News Content

[ravashjalil]

Ive read some stuff about expired content here, but have yet to find an answer so I thought I would post my question is regarding a news based site and expired content issues.

So my site does Recaps, and Previews for sporing events.  Well eventually the content does become not relevant as nobody cares about a prediction after the game is done.  What would be the best method to deal with this? Should I just leave it there or 301 redirect it to the more relevant games.

The reason why I'm asking is because when I have added a more recent game such as New York vs Boston, when I would search for that keyword in google, the page google would show would be like Atlanta vs L.A.

Thanks in advance!

[bgal2012]

I'm not a super expert - but thought I'd chime in. You say:

"when I have added a more recent game such as New York vs Boston, when I would search for that keyword in google, the page google would show would be like Atlanta vs L.A."

Are these on the same page? Like, do you have blog posts that roll and update on the main page? If so, then it's likely Google had indexed that page with "New York vs Boston" - but now when you search, after adding more and fresher posts, the page has changed. It just hasn't indexed the newer version/posts?

[ravashjalil]

Its not on a main page, i would have a subdirectory like

www.mydomain.com/previews/

then on the previews section I would have like

www.mydomain.com/previews/atlanta-vs-boston/

then that would rank fairly well, then I would have another one next week like

www.mydomain.com/previews/atlanta-vs-la/

the previous page would be moved from the top of the previews page, it would be maybe 2nd page or something.  However when I would search for "Atlanta vs LA Preview" google would show "www.mydomain.com/previews/atlanta-vs-boston/" page.

[bgal2012]

Hi Rav,

If you want to PM me your site and example, I'd be happy to have a look and give you any ideas that come to mind. Trying to get kids to bed and just easier if I can look directly vs. following example data.