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How to handle a product deletion

         

Red_Eye

9:41 am on Jun 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I'm not sure if I am posting in the correct place so I appologise in advance.
I have a database driven catalogue site. A number of products are listed in search engines specifically google (which is good). Now when I delete a product that product can no longer be found meaning that when someone click on a link from a google the product cannot be displayed, My site handles this gracfully catching the error and displays an error page pointing the visitor in the right direction.

My question is how should I handle this situation with the googlebot and other robots?

PCInk

11:17 am on Jun 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Just give any page with no product a NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW meta tag for the robots and they should get removed from the index, eventually.

Red_Eye

7:32 am on Jun 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

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The problem is that once the product has been deleted from the db the page no longer exists.