Google: There's No Timeframe For Out Of Stock Product Pages Soft 404ing

Google's John Mueller said that there is no specific timeframe for when an out of stock product page on your e-commerce site will end up resulting in a soft 404 in Google Search. A soft 404 is when Google thinks a page should return a 404 server status code but technically is not.

from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/2KtyagZ