Reply To: Traffic tanked after weird index lag

Yeah, same here. “Indexed” has felt pretty useless for a while now — like Google’s just filing stuff away and deciding later if it deserves to exist. I’ve had pages sit for days with basically zero movement, then suddenly they’ll either wake up or get buried for no obvious reason. And it’s not just new junk either, which is the annoying part. I’ve seen old pages on decent sites do the same weird dead-in-the-water thing. The whole “must be your content” line gets old fast when multiple sites are doing it. Feels more like timing/eval lag or whatever flavor of nonsense they’re on this month. CTR being down makes sense too when the SERPs are packed with garbage and the real result gets shoved halfway down the page. At this point I barely trust GSC day to day. It’s just a noisy little drama box. That’s been my experience anyway. Obviously. Okay then.