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Why Google Deindexed 99% of My E-Commerce Site Overnight – And How to Fix “Crawled – Currently Not Indexed”

Google Search Console stats for e-commerce website, showing a spike in deindexed pages, moved to 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:

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Does “Test Live URL” help Google index your webpage faster?

Google Search Console, Test Live URL, for page indexing
Live Test of a webpage on Google Search Console, passes and says the URL is available to Google and indexable...but not indexed yet.

Does clicking on the "Test Live URL" on Google Search Console after using the "Request Indexing" link make Google index your page sooner? Or was it just a coincidence?

“Ask David” answer: The short answer is no, if you experienced Google indexing your page soon after testing the Live URL, it was just a coincidence. Clicking

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