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How about 301 redirecting to the main product listing with some sort of extra parameter on the URL (?productExpired, for example) that triggers a message like "The product you are looking for expired, check these"?
Of course, then I would add a canonical on the page with the ?productExpired.
Does this make sense?
Hi guys! I have a question that has been running through my mind for quite a while now.
On our company, we offer different products that we put on specific landing pages (one per product). This products are "live" on a 20 day period.
Right now, when the product expires, we put a label "This product expired" and return a 404.
Is this the right way to do it? Take into account that keeping the page "alive" is not an option. The options would be:
301 redirecting to another listing (should I worry about this implementation being wrong? Wouldn't Google find it suspicous that lots of pages redirect to the same listing?)
Return a 200 instead
Thanks for your time!