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What to do with old a/b test pages

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What to do with old a/b test pages DaveGalt 6/10/12 8:03 AM One of the reasons I preferred the multivariate tests over A/B is that I didn't end up with visitors having saved a temporary test page in their favorites.  Creating separate test pages causes me to end up with several defunct test pages with nothing
Re: What to do with old a/b test pages htmlterrier 6/11/12 6:18 AM If you actually still get visits to these pages I would recommend 301 redirecting these. If people link to it and google grabs it I would rather the bot sees the "fresh" page. I can't think of a different solution and yes, MVTs will be sorely missed.
Re: What to do with old a/b test pages DaveGalt 6/11/12 8:11 AM Thanks for the answer.  This is what I've been doing, but I don't like to maintain a growing number of junk redirect pages. It's tempting to just write my own testing routine to insert and track page variations. There are so many easy ways to make th
Re: What to do with old a/b test pages JonathanRElder 6/22/12 8:07 AM As suggested, I'd delete the page altogether and add a htaccess redirect. It's easy enough to add new lines as you delete old experiments.