Expired Promotions | Site suggestions | Discussion forum

If some users are able to have the "archived discussion forums" removed from the so-called "main list," can we please finally remove some of the long outdated and expired savings promos from the "expired promotions" portion of the "promos" page? There is little, if any, benefit from an SEO perspective to linking to such discussion threads that are several years old. They are long since well-indexed by all search engines - and will stay that way! Moreover, Google's link-based algorithm, PageRank, carries much less "weight" today than it did 19 years ago when Google was started in a rental house. It simply has a myriad of algorithms today, too many to list or even know about. Also, in terms of patron or visitor relevance, there is little, if any, relevance or convenience to linking to a thread that talks about an Oaken Financial 0.25% bonus on GICs booked to Dec. 2014 or DUCA Credit Union's 3.25% net new money promo from the same time period.

Therefore, I am both proposing and urging that there be a defined time limit on expired promos listing on that page and that should it be, quite simply:

• that for promotions to be considered as "current promotions," while they may have started in the preceding calendar year, they must remain active in the current calendar year; and,
• that all "expired promotions" shall have an end date in either of the immediate preceding calendar year or the current calendar year

Essentially, two years worth of "expired promotions". So basically, anything that ended prior to January 2017 would be deleted, unless such promotion. Feel free to use such verbiage, if you wish, in any footnote(s) at the bottom of the promo(s) page, similar to the verbiage adopted for the "inclusion criteria" in the comparison chart. 🙂

Cheers,
Doug