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Shopify merchants see 70% of pages deindexed as Google flags duplicate variant and thin-

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Demand — how loud & how many (score)
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Momentum (7d) 4%
Cluster5 posts · 5 people
MarketplaceDuda App Store
Updated19d ago
The story

The pain

We manage Shopify stores and our organic traffic has tanked because Google is deindexing the majority of our pages. Search Console shows that around 70% of our pages are "Crawled - currently not indexed," and the culprit is the platform's own duplicate URLs — ?variant= parameters, collection-nested product paths, and thin collection pages. Even though we have a legitimate site with real traffic, Google treats these as duplicates and refuses to index them, wasting our crawl budget and killing our rankings.

Evidence

What people said · 5 complaints, 5 people

That "Crawled - currently not indexed" on 70% of pages happens all the time for Shopify and, more often than not, it's not a crawl-budget issue as such – it's a duplicate/thin content issue that results in Google making a decision to deindex the page.
RedditMixEqual2195Aug 18
I manage a shopify site and our organic ranking has taken a considerable dip in the last year or two. My concern is we have a report from Search Console showing something in the region of 5600 pages, of which only 608 are being indexed.
RedditstakeyAug 18
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Reach
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Recency
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.71
Engagement
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.39
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