SEO Google Index - Thousands of sites being deindexed - WHY?

Hey yall,

we are running out of ideas. We started out with stage which unfortunately got us indexed 100k+ sites unintentional. We got this solved & removed but now Google seems to have big issues indexing our original walanco.de website.

Does Google have an issue with the code of cscart somehow? We had around 5k websites indexed but since today it is only 240 sites. Sometimes we have server issues, but that cannot be the reason. The worst pages are being indexed if any. Not sure why.

It is all a guessing game by now since we have basically tried everything there is to do. The website is decent, lots of good content and optimized pages. Sometimes a bit slow due to API queries. But nothing obvious to go from 5k to 240 sites.

In total we have 100k+ sites that can be indexed. We would be happy with getting 10k for starters.

Anyone has had similar issues with their new store? Any hints on where to optimize (backlinks?) etc would be appreciated.

My boss thinks it must be an issue on cscart coding structure?

Same here, in March indexed sites dropped with 30%, second and third week in May, it was back as it was. Now since May 27th, dropped 30% again.

Yeah pretty frustrating and neither Google nor Bing lets us know what the actual problem is. Could be anything.

Have the same issue. 2 cs cart websites on the same server. Google indexing pages and after start deindexing. After again indexing and again deindexing.


And this is happening more than 6 month. What is interesting both websites indexing and deindexing almost at the same time.

We now went from 5k indexed pages to 8 pages indexed. We have no idea whats going on or what we can do to solve this issue.

To my previous post. See above second picture of indexing. Below latest pic of this website continues:

And I believe in a week time google again will index and after deindex.
My 2 websites 1+ year old. Have different themes but on the same server. No issues with Bing or Yandex. They have indexed pages.
I believe is a problem with google. Maybe they have tech issues, or they have new algorithm what decides you will be visible or not. Google better knows what people need to see. :grinning:

What type and version you have of cs cart?

Our version: CS-Cartv4.17.2.SP3

I know Google is testing a new type of search called ‘AI Search’, so it’s possible that’s where the problem is until they fully implement it.

Multi-Vendor v4.18.1