These are not out of stock products. These are items that don't sell and have not sold in years; We have listings older than 5yrs and do not have any sales at all.

You would mark them as out of stock?

Hi Cole

These are not out of stock products. These are items that don't sell and have not sold in years; We have listings older than 5yrs and do not have any sales at all.

You would mark them as out of stock?

RebelsMarket.com is a marketplace for alternative fashion. We have hundreds of sellers who have listed thousands of products. Over 90% of the items do not generate any sales;  and about 40% of the products have been on the website for over 3+ years.

We want to cleanup the catalog and remove all the old listings  that older than 2years that do not generate any sales.  What is the best practice for removing thousands of listings  an Ecommerce site? do we 404 these products and show similar items?

Your help and thoughts is much appreciated.

Hi Gaston

Thank you for the detailed response and suggestions. I will follow up with my findings. Point 3 and 4; - I think there is something there.

James

Hi Gaston

Thank you for sharing your insights.

1. I have looked through all the pages and made sure we have not noindexed important pages

2. The migration went well; no double redirects or duplicate content.

3. I looked through Google search console - Fixed all the errors; (mostly complains about 404 error caused by products that are out of stock or from vendors who leave the website)

4. A friend said he thinks our pages are over-optimized - and hence that could be the reason; We went ahead and tweaked all the pages that were driving traffic; but change.

If you have a moment here is our website: www.rebelsmarket.com - If there is anything that standsout please let me know. I appreciate your help

James

Hi Joe

We have applied all the redirects carefully and tested them to make sure; we have no duplicate content

The url:  www.rebelsmarket.com

Redirect to SSL: March 2018 (we started with the blog and then moved to products page)

We added; noindex and nofollow tags at the sametime;

Thank you

James

Hi John

Sorry, I have been tied up with travel schedule. Here is the website www.rebelsmarket.com

Thank you for your help John

We are an e-commerce marketplace at for alternative fashion and home decor. We have over 1000+ stores on the marketplace.  Early this year, we switched the website from HTTP to HTTPS in March 2018 and also added noindex and nofollow tags to the store about page and store policies (mostly boilerplate content)

Our traffic dropped by 45% and we have since not recovered. We have done

I am wondering could these tags be affecting our rankings?

RebelsMarket.com is a marketplace for alternative fashion. We have hundreds of sellers who have listed thousands of products. Over 90% of the items do not generate any sales;  and about 40% of the products have been on the website for over 3+ years.

We want to cleanup the catalog and remove all the old listings  that older than 2years that do not generate any sales.  What is the best practice for removing thousands of listings  an Ecommerce site? do we 404 these products and show similar items?

Your help and thoughts is much appreciated.

We are an e-commerce marketplace at for alternative fashion and home decor. We have over 1000+ stores on the marketplace.  Early this year, we switched the website from HTTP to HTTPS in March 2018 and also added noindex and nofollow tags to the store about page and store policies (mostly boilerplate content)

Our traffic dropped by 45% and we have since not recovered. We have done

I am wondering could these tags be affecting our rankings?