Reply To: Traffic tanked after indexing finally hit

Yeah, I’ve seen that too, and it’s annoying as hell. What’s worse is it’s not even just “slow indexing” sometimes — it’ll sit there untouched, then finally get in and the page has already missed the window. I’ve had a few affiliate pages where the first crawl/index came way too late to catch anything useful. I’d still check whether those URLs are getting any real internal push, though. If they’re buried or only hit from some weak hub page, Google seems happy to ignore them until it feels like it, which is basically useless for anything time-sensitive. But yeah, when it happens across two sites in the same month, it doesn’t exactly feel random.