Cohere: Stop AI from Recommending Discontinued Products
How to fix the problem of ai recommends discontinued products specifically for Cohere. Platform-specific solutions and prevention strategies.
Why This Happens in Cohere
Cohere uses Cohere-AI to discover and index content. Discontinued product pages still live and indexed. To fix this, you need to ensure Cohere's crawler can access your content and that your pages are structured in a way Cohere can understand.
Signs You Have This Problem in Cohere
Cohere recommends products you've sunset or discontinued
Users ask about features from deprecated versions
Old product names appear in Cohere recommendations
Cohere doesn't know about your latest product lineup
How to Fix This in Cohere
Follow these Cohere-specific solutions:
Redirect discontinued product pages to current alternatives
Create 'product sunset' announcements with migration paths
Update all references to discontinued products
Add 'discontinued' notices and alternatives to old pages
Build authority for current products with fresh content
Contact external sites to update their information
Cohere Technical Details
Crawler Name
Cohere-AI
User Agent
cohere-ai
Required robots.txt configuration:
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /Prevent This Problem in Cohere
Create a product lifecycle content strategy
Plan content updates when discontinuing products
Maintain redirects for all deprecated URLs
Test Cohere knowledge after product changes