Hello, I have an e-commerce site which sells women clothing. Every few days some items go out of stock and we delete the product rather than showing OUT OF STOCK to avoid loading on site. Problem comes to webmaster tools which continuously throws "Not found errors". I know i can remove that page with REMOVE URL option from webmaster but what next, when again those items are available in-stock. Any help will be appreciated! Regards, Bhumika
I would strongly suggest you leave the products advertised on your site (but show out of stock) rather than deleting them. This way you get to keep all SEO benefits, and you get people to come to your site rather than going elsewhere! I am not sure what do you mean by loading on site, but what you are doing now is not a good ecommerce & seo practice.
It`s better to indicate out of stock icon like they do in all e-commerce websites, not to renew the sitemap in webmaster tools
You can rather switch over a new opensource ecommerce platform such as shopify, magento etc. You will not face such issues then.
Hello, thanks for your response. Its not possible for 10 to 12 sites to switch to another platform in terms of Costs + Time
hey, thanx for responding. What if i don't sell those products anymore once it is out of stock. Suppose if i keep marking those products out of stock, don't you thing those unused products will be one of the reason for page speed issues.