Today’s post is question from Hicham Damahi of beezid.com/ who asks “How to handle expired product pages on a classified / auction site.” I’m going to expand the topic to cover expired product pages as well, since the concept it basically the same. I touched on this briefly in my Shopping Cart SEO Tips post, but there are a couple of different conditions that require some finesse so let’s run through the most common cases: Product Goes Temporarily Out of Stock: If a product goes out of stock temporarily, but you do expect to get it back in stock, you’ll want to leave the page up from a search engine perspective. You want to make sure that you let the customer know the product is out of stock
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How to Deal with Expired Product or Auction Pages