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Product Review Site – Best Way to Keep Current?

What is the best way to keep my site updated with the latest products?

         

bistsuresh

8:42 am on May 31, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

I have a few questions for people working on product review sites.

- What do you do with the pages which are based on models that are discontinued? Though you may get some traffic, you will not get any affiliate commission and over a period of time this traffic may also reduce. Besides, it makes your site bulky.

After a while, you have so many pages that are based on discontinued models. Is it better to remove these pages?

- Do you eventually reach the stage wherein you have a page for every model within a product category? (for example, widgets green -> widgets round series -> smooth)
Currently I have many pages that talks about multiple related models on the same page. For instance, I have one page for widgets green series where I mention about multiple round models on that page...Is this the way top do it efficiently or should I have one page for every round model?

- What is the best way to deal with new launches and to know which models are now no longer current? I have heard about feed programming...Is it something that I can use if I am building my site using templates/block builder?

Am eagerly looking forward to hear from senior boarders here...

Regards
Suresh
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tangor

8:46 am on May 31, 2010 (gmt 0)

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I'm the odd guy out: I kill all discontinued and don't bother to redirect. Just my approach to biz. Keeps it simple. New launches are just that: NEW and the SEs seem to like that. YMMV.

onlineleben

10:01 am on May 31, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Check out this recent discussion in the Ecommerce Forum here at Webmaster World:

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PS: and welcome to WW, too.

phranque

9:12 am on Jun 1, 2010 (gmt 0)

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welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com], bistsuresh!

bistsuresh

6:05 am on Jun 2, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Thanks onlineleben and phranque...

I didn't get any reply to my post on the Ecommerce Forum...

May be I can have your views...

Most of the guys on that forum agreed on retaining the pages on discontinued products. My concern was about the site getting huge over a period of time...making it difficult from a maintenance perspective.

How many pages would product sites of most boarders here on WW contain (rough estimate)?

onlineleben

7:02 am on Jun 2, 2010 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



bistsuresh,
in my opinion even a discontinued product can bring value to a site. On a review site you can still list the item with your review text, customer experiences etc and show how happy everone was (or not) with the product and then recommend the succeeding product or something similar.
This way you keep inbound links to that page, too.
A site cannot get too huge when the structure and the content are OK.