Reply To: Google’s playing games with my parasite pages again

In most cases, yeah, same here. The “discovered” / “crawled” / then nothing cycle is getting old fast. I don’t buy the clean crawl budget explanation either, at least not by itself. When the URL path starts changing or it gets picked up and then dropped, that usually smells more like some trust/quality weirdness at the property level than a simple fetch limit. Or Google just being inconsistent, which… yeah, shocker. I’d be looking at what changed around the host and inbound pattern, not the page copy. If nothing moved there, then…