404 Crawl Errors

  • My site is fairly dynamic and is linked to a stock control system that continually adjusts availability of products and variations.

    The problem that I am trying to resolve is that of visibility of out of stock items. If I ‘hide out of stock items’ – which is my preferred option – then Google throws up crawl errors if it had previously indexed a page which is no longer there. See image.

    Crawl Errors

    It appears to be the fact that when Google initially indexes there may be x pages of results, but the next time, because items have gone out of stock, there may be x – 1 or x – 2 pages in a category.

    Is it possible to amend WC to return a ‘softer’ response than a 404, perhaps returning a page with a message which Google would not flag as an error.

    If anyone could point me in the right direction I would be most grateful.

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