Technical SEOMichigan, USA Verified GSC data

+285% pages indexed and +83% US organic clicks — rebuilt after a de-indexing event.

+285%

Pages indexed

11,549

Pages now indexed

+83%

US organic clicks

Measured over March – July 2026

Michigan Outdoor Sports Technical SEO case study — live Google Search Console screen recording
Live GSC screen recording
The engagement

How we took Michigan Outdoor Sports from stuck to ranking

The challenge

Ecommerce · Michigan, USA

Brand pages were never properly submitted to GSC, thin content caused mass non-indexing, and crawl budget was being wasted — leaving thousands of pages invisible despite being a real physical business.

The strategy

Technical SEO

We submitted sitemaps directly to GSC, fixed indexation blocks and crawl waste, rewrote brand pages with unique content, and resubmitted in batches — backed by a Michigan-specific local keyword strategy.

The outcome

Verified in Google Search Console

Peaked at +476% organic clicks in March 2026, lost ground to a gradual de-indexing, then rebuilt: ~3,000 to 11,549 indexed pages (+285%) and +83% US organic clicks by July, with no ad spend.

Pages indexed
+285%Pages indexed
Pages now indexed
11,549Pages now indexed
US organic clicks
+83%US organic clicks

What we found

Where Michigan Outdoor Sports was when the work started

  • Low-quality, thin product and brand pages
  • Crawl budget wasted on low-value URLs
  • Thousands of pages crawled but not indexed
  • UI/UX problems on product and category templates
  • Slow pages and failing Core Web Vitals
  • Weak internal linking between brands, categories and products
  • Near-duplicate manufacturer descriptions
  • No structured data implemented at all
  • No backlinks
  • No E-E-A-T signals — no clear author, brand or trust pages

What we fixed

The work, step by step

1A content autopilot for thin pages

SearchPrex built its own content autopilot to rewrite thin product and brand pages at scale — unique, useful copy per page instead of the manufacturer's boilerplate — published in batches and re-measured in Search Console before the next batch went out.

2Crawling and indexing

Crawl waste removed, sitemaps rebuilt and submitted directly, and pages resubmitted in batches so Google spent its visits on the pages that sell.

3Speed and Core Web Vitals

Template-level performance fixes, so every product page got faster at once rather than one at a time.

4UI/UX on the templates that convert

Product and category templates restructured so shoppers — and Google — can see what a page is for.

5Internal linking

Brands, categories and products linked to each other deliberately, so authority flows to the pages that earn money.

6Structured data

Product, Offer, Breadcrumb and Organization markup built from the data each page already renders.

7Backlinks and E-E-A-T

Link building started from zero, alongside the brand, author and trust signals the site had none of.

The proof

Unedited screenshots

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How Michigan Outdoor Sports was fixed, step by step

The 35,000-product indexing playbook (PDF)

  • The 8 steps in order, from Search Console diagnosis to batch resubmission
  • SMK Store: $5,832 → $19,100 a month, with the dashboards
  • Michigan Sports & Outdoor: ~3,000 → 11,549 indexed pages, setback included

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