Why have I retired some pages on the canals.com website?

Basically, it’s a question of keeping all the links up to date.

Before retiring any pages, I had about 2500 links on this site. If I wanted to check them on a monthly cycle, that means I’d need to check more than 80 links every day to cover all of them in a month. And some of these will need fixing.

This is a bit too much of a burden, since this site is not a business but just something I’ve been doing in the hope of being helpful.

Also, the website also does not get a lot of hits. There are several reasons for this:

So I have kept some of the more popular pages and retired the others.

What to do if something on a retired page is still useful to you

Though not indexed by search engines, the retired pages are still available. See my original home page which includes links to the retired pages.

You may encounter a number of bad links. Rarely, some bad links are taken over by malware purveyors, so use at your own risk.


Link to main canals page.
Send questions and comments to .
Text, graphics, and photos Copyright © 1995-2023 by George Pearson.
This Page Last Modified: Monday, 23-Oct-23 5:30 pm EDT