Blog page expiration/unpublish

[AndrewinKC]

We have a compliance requirement to remove blog posts from our website after a set period of time.

It would be nice to add the expiration/unpublish functionality that we currently have with landing pages to blog posts. For example,

• Set expiration date/time
• Set which page should be redirected to after page expiry

[A_Wessolly]

Hi @AndrewinKC ,

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  HubSpot would also need to implement a functionality that automatically redirects the link to the unpublished page to a different page.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 🙂

[AndrewinKC]

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.

Thanks,

Andrew

[AKhan170]

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.

[Jnix284]

@AndrewinKC just curious, what is the compliance explanation for having to term content? or what industry?

Here are a couple other ideas where this could be useful:

• when blog is used for "news" and the news has information that may become outdated (promotion, event, outage).
• homebuilders, real estate, etc. where content evolves more rapidly and certain milestones are known/can be scheduled

[johncobb]

You have to duplicate the functionality offered on Hubspot landing page and it would minimize the SEO hit as followed by tenderizer needle tool.

[tonypeter]

Totally agree on the SEO implications  on nj. Unfortunately, our compliance team and governing agencies don't seem to care about our SEO.

[A_Wessolly]

@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.