It's imperative that your website's information be current. This can prevent you from many problems with your clients.If you have anything on your site that's date sensitive, such as a sale, promotion, coupon or similar items that have expiration dates, then remove them when they expire. I had a friend who used her website to advertise a sale she was having at her store. The ad filled one entire page. Well, about six months after
sale had ended I went to her site and found
sale still listed. She did have an expiration date, which was a good idea, but also caused some problems.
By leaving this expired ad up it caused some problems with a few clients. Some people came to her store expecting
discount mentioned in
ad, and became upset when they found out
sale was over. Some people became so upset that she gave them
discount anyway.
While this solved
immediate problem, she still had unhappy customers. These customers no doubt told all their friends about
unprofessional way
store was run. There's no way to prove it, but I'm sure she lost sales from these unhappy customers spreading their unfortunate experience. Also, you have people coming in that when they find
sale has ended feel cheated, stupid (Jeez, I didn't notice
expiration date), embarrassed, and all around unhappy. They then try to funnel all of these negative emotions onto
storeowner, or whoever happens to be behind
counter. Now you have
owner and employees feeling unhappy. It goes on and on. All because
owner didn't remove
page or update it with something like, "I want to thank everyone who made
sale such a success. Keep checking back to see when our next sale will happen."
Making a simple change to
one page like this would have prevented all of
misunderstandings, made everyone happy and increased site traffic as people kept going back to
sales page to see when
next sale would be.