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Why Google Deindexed 99% of My E-Commerce Site Overnight – And How to Fix “Crawled – Currently Not Indexed”
You log into Google Search Console (GSC) and see a vertical cliff. A WooCommerce (why didn't you use UltimateWB?!) store that held 5,000+ stable product URLs for months is suddenly down to just a handful of indexed pages. Your core catalog is completely gone. At least your homepage is left standing, you say to yourself.
You run the standard technical triage checklist:
- Robots.txt? Clean.
- Noindex tags? None. Everything is set to index, follow.
- Canonical tags? Correct and self-referencing.
Posted in E-commerce, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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Why Does Google Search Console Say My Page Is Indexed, But It Won’t Show Up in Google Search?
“Ask David!” question:
I just submitted a new page URL to the Google Search Console URL inspection tool. Pretty fast, within 10 minutes or so, when I checked again, it says that the page is indexed. But if I search for the article in Google - even if I search for the exact URL - it says not found. What is up with that?
David’s Answer:
First of all - good job! You must have written some great content that
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