u/Myxdoit

Hi everyone,
Looking for some advice on a bizarre conversion issue. My site's daily orders have been fluctuating heavily and trending downward since June 15th.
Here is what I’ve already ruled out:
**Traffic:** GSC shows steady impressions and clicks. No noticeable drops or algorithm hits.
**Technical/Server:** Server logs are clean. No downtime, and site speed/loading is normal.
**Checkout Flow:** I did a couple of test orders, and the payment gateway seems to be working fine.
If traffic is identical but buying behavior completely shifted overnight, what else should I be auditing? Could it be a tracking issue, a specific browser/device bug, or are others seeing a seasonal mid-June slump? Appreciate any insights!

Hi

I’m in desperate need of some fresh eyes and technical advice regarding a sudden indexation collapse on my niche site.

Here is the background and the timeline:

The Site: It’s a highly focused, professional vertical site in the electrical/industrial niche (specifically targeting transfer switches: transferswitchhub.com). It's built on WordPress (WooCommerce with a customized Riode theme).

The Content: It’s NOT a scraped or spammy site. It's a hand-crafted project with a clean architecture, specific product categories based on technical specs (Amps, Poles, etc.), and product tables.

The Issue: The site used to have 6,000+ stable indexed pages and decent organic traffic. However, starting exactly on April 21, 2026, the indexation suffered a catastrophic cliff-dive.

Current Status in GSC:

Total indexed pages dropped down to basically 1 (only the homepage is left).

The remaining thousands of pages have all been shifted to "Crawled - currently not indexed".

Manual Actions: Clean. No red flags, no security issues, and absolutely no copyright/DMCA violations.

Tech Check: robots.txt is fine, noindex tags are NOT accidentally applied, and canonical tags are pointing to the correct self-referencing URLs. Googlebot has no technical issues crawling the site; it just refuses to index the pages after downloading them.

What I'm currently doing/suspecting:
Given the niche, the site naturally has many category and product variation pages based on specs (e.g., 100A, 200A, 3-Pole, 4-Pole). I suspect Google's recent core/spam algorithm rollouts might have flagged my template-heavy layouts or spec sheets as "low value" or "scaled content" by mistake.

To combat this, I am currently working on moving category descriptions from the top to the bottom and expanding them into deep, unique buyer guides/FAQs (300-500 words each) to increase the information density and break the template pattern.

My questions for the experts here:

Has anyone else in the B2C / industrial MRO niche experienced a massive "Crawled - currently not indexed" wipeout around mid-to-late April 2026?

Since Googlebot is actively crawling but withholding indexation, does this look more like a site-wide quality/authority suppression (algorithmic sandbox) or a pattern-matching issue?

What else should I investigate right now to signal "unique value" to Google and recover from this?

Any insights, brutal honesty, or technical checklists would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!