while it would help your Compliance requirement, i am quite sure that it would have negative SEO Implications ( SEO spiders would constantly see Urls appear and disappear). HubSpot would also need to implement a functionality that automatically redirects the link to the unpublished page to a different page. The next question then is, which pages should that be, is this decision defined somewhere etc.
However i totally understand the reasoning behind the idea and i have upvoted it 🙂
Totally agree on the SEO implications. Unfortunately, our compliance team and governing agencies don't seem to care about our SEO!
I think that by duplicating the functionality offered on Hubspot landing page (where you can specify which page to redirect to) would minimize the SEO hit.
I think that by duplicating the functionality offered on Hubspot landing page (where you can specify which page to redirect to) would minimize the SEO hit as I have practiced it in cafe smokers.
@tonypeter, i agree, compliance often approaches things with the attitude:"Doesn´t matter, if we want it that, it gets done like that." So something like SEO is not something they care about, they just don´t get the implications. I would not tell them that they are responsible for SEO changes, i would tell them they their decision directly negetively implact the bottom line of the company. That is a lot easier to grasp than something as obscure as SEO.
But that is what they effectively doing with this, negatively effect the bottom line.