I have my products made as "configurable products" and it's around 300 of them. And they have around 10-20 simple products associated (each). But 2 of my configurable products have around 3000 simples.
So it is around 10.000 simple products that are set to 'not visible individually'. And of course magento creates for them url rewrites, and reindexing it takes too long.
Is it possible to turn off url rewrites for 'not visible' products?
Turn Off URL Rewrites for Invisible Products in Magento 1.8
magento-1.8url-rewrite
Best Answer
I tend to use the module Dn'D Patch Index URL for that and have very positive experiences with it.
There's also the more up-to-date Loewenstark_UrlIndexer module that is supposed to do the same, but I haven't had time to test it yet.