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Product must remain after it is removed from the merchants feed.

Submitted by Andrewc on Mon, 2009-06-29 08:23 in

When a product is removed from a suppliers feed the product is then removed from the PT database.

Is it possible to keep this product in the database and show show a message saying "Currently no suppliers".

I find that when you have a high ranking product in Search engines and the supplier removes the product you now lose this page.
Most importantly you lose the potential visitors it could refer.

What would be the easiest way to get this to work..

Submitted by support on Mon, 2009-06-29 10:33

Hi Andrew,

The code should be configured to enable related products display if the product is not found in order to handle just this situation. Is this taking place on your old product pages?

Cheers,
David.

Submitted by Andrewc on Thu, 2009-07-02 07:03

I saw that..

What I had in mind was to actually show the product as normal, image and description..

Submitted by support on Thu, 2009-07-02 07:49

Hi Andrew,

How many products (approx) are on this site? This is not really straight forward by any means i'm afraid but if you can let me know the approx. number i'll have a think about various options...

Considering that your site will be populated with replacement products; do you not feel it would be better to concentrate on directing visitors to new products that will earn you commission; rather than having the dead-end of an old product which is more likely to frustrate a visitor when they discover that it is no longer available?

It would also be worth looking to the future - at some point, unless your site is very well indexed by the search engines and they are committing lots of resources to indexing you, you don't want the situation where new pages are no longer being indexed because your site has become so large with all the old product pages...

Cheers,
David.

Submitted by bastty on Fri, 2016-02-26 00:18

When a product has ben removed from database vistor will see some related products wich is perfect but google will see and index a page without description.
Can we add an automated description like: Price compare for DELETED PRODUCT NAME ?

Submitted by support on Fri, 2016-02-26 09:05

Hi,

Sure - in products.php look for the deleted product title code at line 78:

  $banner["h2"] .= "(".translate("product no longer available").")";

...and REPLACE with:

  $banner["h2"] = translate("Price search results for")." <strong>".htmlspecialchars($q,ENT_QUOTES,$config_charset)."</strong>&nbsp;";
  $header["meta"]["description"] = translate("Price search results for")." ".$q;
  $header["meta"]["keywords"] = $q;

Cheers,
David.
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PriceTapestry.com

Submitted by bastty on Fri, 2016-02-26 09:55

Perfect

Thank you