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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?

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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.

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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?

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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:

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I leave the product page live and show it's out of stock, then link to similar items on that page. Helps keep SEO juice and gives visitors something else to check out.

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