Hello,
I was wondering is there any performance issue if a large set of discontinued items are being disabled?
The discontinued items can be also deleted permanently.
So was wondering what's the best practice.
Thanks
Hello @bnsn _store ,
I'm no SEO expert, but most of the clients that I worked with (that had SEO experts as consultants) wanted the following scenario.
They called these products 'discontinued'.
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@bnsn _storeBefore deciding Disabling them or Deleting them would require you to get answer of many question. Disabling/Deleting/Out of stock etc all has their pros and cons. If you have more information around it will help you decide.
Some of the reason is already provided to you by @gelanivishal . Other things you need to look into is like do you have options available for discontinued products? If you do you may need to put a message or forwarding for the new products.
How big is your catalog. If really huge deleting them would make sense as it will keep your Magento light weigh and avoid Magento to overload. I am not sure about the infrastructure. If servers are decent and having those addition SKU will not affect the SKU then you can keep them.
Various other factors can help you decide. However, keeping disabled product will not make sense. Either utilize them for some purpose or delete them to keep your Magento site slick and clean.
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