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TellicoTurning

TellicoTurning

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I received an order off my website last night. That in of itself is a good thing.. the problem is, the item isn't on my website, at least not the current version of my website.

I turned some all wood goblets back in 2008, listed them on my web site and on Art-Fire sometime either late 2008 or early 2009... My notes show that the particular goblet ordered which was a one of a kind, one only, no duplicate, was sold on Art-Fire in 2009... probably my only sale on Art-Fire.
The goblet was removed from the website, I revised and republished the site, and have done so about 10 to 15 times a year since 2009, yet this item showed up in a web search and allowed the party to order 2...

My question is how do I get those old pages floating out there in the cloud to either delete or at least re-write whenever I revise and republish my web site.... I'm using Yahoo Sitebuilder as the carrier/host... but I can search on Google and find the goblet.

I will note that in the beginning when I set up my shopping cart through paypal, it did not allow for any type of inventory control.... the merchant services for the shopping cart now has a button you can turn on that will not (or at least is supposed to not) let the customer order more than the number in inventory.
 
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I've had the same thing happen to me a few times ... people bought and paid for plants that I haven't carried in a long time ... they got it from one of my old sites.
 
:frown::frown: Sorry to say that anything and everything you ever put on the internet is still out there someplace. It never gets totaly erraced, and like an old relative, may show up at any time. Everything electronicly transmitted is recorded someware. Big Brother knows were you have been, what you bought, and who you talked to and for how long. The price we pay for freedom. Jim S
 
Cached web site someplace maybe a Bluecoat Device or something like that, we run into that problem from time to time, to force the cached site to refresh do CTL-F5 but that is only for the person veiwing the site dosent help the site provider. There is no way for you to refresh all the cached versions of your site on the net.
 
That sorta sucks...the last couple of sales I've had on the web have been for items that are long gone from my inventory... I was able to turn two new goblets for this sale, but the one prior there was no way to re-create it, so had to refund their money... 'course Paypal had already taken their fees, so I was out them.
 
TellicoTurning said:
That sorta sucks...the last couple of sales I've had on the web have been for items that are long gone from my inventory... I was able to turn two new goblets for this sale, but the one prior there was no way to re-create it, so had to refund their money... 'course Paypal had already taken their fees, so I was out them.
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I had that problem early on and it was due to (as you mentioned) inventory control, luckly my two main sites have been on the net for so long I don't think it will be an issue anymore.

Any new sites I put out on the net start out with a cart that has inventory control, and it has to communicate with my DB to see if there are items in inventory, so I don't think that it will happen again. But I could be wrong.
 
When I had a site (not for pens), whenever I updated a page I used the same address. Every page has a unique address and if you simply replace a page the old one is still out there somewhere. BUT if you overwrite the page ... the 'old' page goes away. That eliminates 'old' pages with out-dated info hanging around.

My site was not a 'store' so I did not have issues of inventory control, but I still had outdated info that had to go and be replaced with current stuff.
 
Use a shopping cart cms that provides inventory control. If you're getting traffic to 'old' pages and they are from google you have two options. Use a 301 redirect on the said page(s) and point them to some where else on your site. You could also sign up for a google webmaster tools account then request the URL's be removed from the search index.
 
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