Reply To: Traffic dropped after indexing spike?

Yeah, I’ve seen that pattern too, and it’s usually not the “nice” kind of indexing burst. Had a couple sites do the same thing where Google suddenly grabbed a bunch of URLs, then a day or two later impressions/traffic got weird as hell. Half the time it’s some junk pages getting crawled/indexed and the real pages just get shoved around for no obvious reason. Honestly I wouldn’t trust the spike at all unless the pages that got indexed were actually the ones you wanted. Google’s been doing this random thrash thing a lot lately. That’s been my experience anyway.