the.rampage.rado Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Hello, Many times when I search for sports goods from previous years I open up sites that list those as out of stock and they are hidden in the normal product listings. But google sees this "half-inactive" product and shows a result. I click and open this site, otherwise I would not click this result. Currently I set all old collection items to available - NO and I make 301 reddirect to analog product. So after some time I lose all those results in google. In your opinion what is the best config for such products? Availability - Yes Visibility - Search only or should I continue to 301 to new products? I'm even not sure that the first scenario will result to the same behaviour I described in the start. If I enable search indexation will google 'search' for some products in order to get to those hiden products that are only search-visible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30knees Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 (edited) We do: Enabled: Yes Visibility: Nowhere Availabel for order: No Like this they still show up in search engines but not in the store. For some products I'll add a text saying this one is discontinued but check out this new one and link to the new one. Edited March 1 by 30knees 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.rampage.rado Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 On 3/2/2023 at 12:12 AM, 30knees said: We do: Enabled: Yes Visibility: Nowhere Availabel for order: No Like this they still show up in search engines but not in the store. For some products I'll add a text saying this one is discontinued but check out this new one and link to the new one. I'll try your setup for few products. What if I have 'available for order' set to Yes and I have no stock? I believe nothing changes in FO? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.rampage.rado Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 Just tried your settings - those products are not visible in the sitemap. Why and how will then Google bot reach them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30knees Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 That's strange. They're in my sitemap. But if they've already been indexed, does it not matter whether they're in the sitemap? Here the settings: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datakick Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 They should not be in sitemap: https://github.com/thirtybees/sitemap/blob/c1ade8ced29c953c5dd2e19d992cbcf437628066/sitemap.php#L697 Sitemap shows only products that match both these criteria: active = 1 AND visibility != 'none' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.rampage.rado Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 (edited) @datakick - how can I achieve the same behaviour? Is it possible at all at the moment? Edited March 3 by the.rampage.rado Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30knees Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 @the.rampage.radoCouldn't you modify the file like this so it shows? active = 1 AND visibility = 'none' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
