Let’s say that I have some widgets listed on the website which sometimes are active or inactive.

If the listed widget is inactive and somebody click on the link from search results page he will get a page - "There are no results that match your search. Please try another search."

The status code for this page (and probably for all inactive pages) is 200 which tells a boot that the requested URLs are valid and should be indexed.

As a result inactive pages are indexed, which in some way doesn’t help with indexability.

Question: Is it right way to do it or the page should have a different HTTP status?

Thanks