When to 404 a gallery?

**hyper** · 08-09-2002, 10:48 AM

smack

**ronaldo** · 08-09-2002, 10:52 AM

I leave mine up for good.

If someone archives your gallery or "steals" it from another site, you may find yourself blacklisted somewhere you've never even submitted before, but may want to in the future.

I've got pages over a year old and they still pop up in the weirdest places.

I deleted galleries ONCE to clear up some disk space and spent the entire next day writing emails trying to clear my name. I'll never go through that again. A dedicated box is worth it if only for that reason alone.

I'd suggest YOU archive your old galleries on to one page, and then when someone asks "I need galleries for my tgp", send them on to your site.

Just my

**Yourfreehost** · 08-09-2002, 10:52 AM

It will definately get you banned

**dantheman** · 08-09-2002, 10:52 AM

i have galleries that get hundreds of google hits a month. I dont think I'd want to 404 any of them.

**Rocco Strange** · 08-09-2002, 12:37 PM

See! Thats why I ask!

I'll leave them up

**TFCash** · 08-09-2002, 01:40 PM

Originally posted by Rocco Strange
See! Thats why I ask!

I'll leave them up

Yeap leave them up, but you need to make your pages a bit more sale friendly after 90 days !!!!

You can use php and have it do some really cool stuff with your galleries, I have it wrap the pictures in html after 90 days, and it add's 2 more text links to the page after it's 90 days old. After 1 year I have a pop under that comes up to my traffic hub, I currently get around 1000 unq a day just to that hub from my old galleries, and SE stuff that has found me through spidering the site.

This is another reason to have your own paid hosting, or at least use one of the freehosts that allow you to use your own domain, so you don't loose that valuable SE traffic !!

If you'd like a sample of the php page, just let me know and I'll post one.

Tim

**Fletch XXX** · 08-09-2002, 01:43 PM

6 months.

**Trenton** · 08-09-2002, 01:46 PM

Originally posted by Rocco Strange
I know that you are supposed to keep a page up after submitting it, but for how long?

I know that I still get traffic to my first gallery every, but I never get anymore conversions from the really old pages. I suspect that this type of surfer is just crusing archives and will never convert.

so, should I 404 a gallery after some arbitrary amount of time? Like autodelete after 3 months?

Will this get me banned on the bigger TGP sites?

Any comments or thoughts?

Fuck yeah it will get you banned

**TFCash** · 08-09-2002, 04:12 PM

I've had a couple of people email me about how to do this, so I will just post it here. It's pretty simple actually, all you have to do is deciede what you want the page to look like before the time deadline and what you want to look like after and put some if statements in

Hope it helps.

Tim

PHP Code:

<?
// Get the current file name of the page that was called
$file_name = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'];
// Get info about the page that was called
$file_info = stat("$file_name"); 
// Get the date the file was last changed
$file_date = $file_info[mtime];
// Today's day to offset with
$todays_date = date(U);
// Set the amount of time diff to switch page format (time is in seconds, so 90 days = 7776000)
$offset_seconds = 7776000;
if(($todays_date - $file_date) > $offset_seconds){
    $site_upsell = "YES";
    }else{
    $site_upsell = "NO";
}
?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
        <title>Nasty Teen Sluts</title>
</head>
<body>

<? // use the $site_upsell variable to plugin new text links or to change them up after 90 days ?>
<? if($site_upsell == "YES"):?>
<div align="center">
<a href="/scripts/out.php?sponsor="amateurpages">Check out the website for more free pic's !!!</a>
</div>
<? endif; ?>

<table align="center" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0">
<tr>
    <td>
        <? if($site_upsell == "NO"):?>
        <? // Just show link the pic straight from the thumbnail ?>
        <a href="pic01.jpg"><img src="thumb_pic01.jpg" border="0" alt="Click Here For Hot Teens"></a>
        <? else: ?>
<?        // Use this to wrap the picture with some html so you can put another banner
        // or some more text links to the sponsors site ?>
        <a href="show_picture.html?pic=pic01.jpg"><img src="thumb_pic01.jpg" border="0" alt="Click Here For Hot Teens"></a>
        <? endif; ?>
    </td>
    <td>
        <? if($site_upsell == "NO"):?>
        <? // Just show link the pic straight from the thumbnail ?>
        <a href="pic02.jpg"><img src="thumb_pic02.jpg" border="0" alt="Click Here For Hot Teens"></a>
        <? else: ?>
<?        // Use this to wrap the picture with some html so you can put another banner
        // or some more text links to the sponsors site ?>
        <a href="show_picture.html?pic=pic02.jpg"><img src="thumb_pic02.jpg" border="0" alt="Click Here For Hot Teens"></a>
        <? endif; ?>
    </td>
    <td>
    
    </td>
    <td>
    
    </td>
</tr>
</table>

<? // use the $site_upsell variable to upsize the text after 90 days ?>
<? if($site_upsell == "YES"):?>
<div align="center">
<a href="/scripts/out.php?sponsor="amateurpages"><font size="+2">Get more free pics of this hot teen here</font></a>
</div>
<? else: ?>
<div align="center">
<a href="/scripts/out.php?sponsor="amateurpages">Get more free pics of this hot teen here</a>
</div>
<? endif; ?>

</body>
</html>

**ChrisH** · 08-09-2002, 04:34 PM

I think the better question is. If and when you see your older galleries in a search. Do you remove any recips to it?

I guess you could look and see if the page is still listed and go by that.

**Vendot** · 08-09-2002, 04:43 PM

> should I 404 a gallery after some arbitrary amount of time?
> Like autodelete after 3 months?

Never 404..... old & archive galleries do convert better than people say. You always end up with the odd good few signs if youre galleries were worth anything to start with (design-wise).

Put em up and keep em live ....

**Theo** · 08-09-2002, 04:54 PM

its advisable not to redirect/remove any page

**Krome** · 08-09-2002, 04:58 PM

Originally posted by ChrisH
I think the better question is. If and when you see your older galleries in a search. Do you remove any recips to it?

I guess you could look and see if the page is still listed and go by that.

I agree leave old galleries up and just change the banners, personally I have them all pulling from a central cgi based script anyway so at the flick of a switch they all change.

When to 404 a gallery?

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