Reply To: Traffic dropped after pages got indexed

Seriously, yeah, I’ve seen that too, and honestly the “indexed = good” crowd needs to quit acting like that means anything. I’ve had fresh pages get crawled stupid fast, show impressions for a day or two, then just die. Same setup, same site, same template, nothing obvious broken. Older pages keep dragging traffic like normal, so it really does feel like new URLs get some kind of cheap initial test and then Google just decides “nah.” What’s pissed me off is you can’t even tell if it’s a real issue or just Google being stingy with fresh stuff. I’ve checked logs, titles, internal links, render, all the usual crap, and still got pages that basically never get a fair shot. Feels more like trust/section/domain behavior than pure content quality half the time. Might be worth looking at whether the new pages are all in the same folder or template though. I’ve seen one bad section poison the whole batch before. But yeah, I wouldn’t put much stock in “just make it better” either. That answer’s lazy as hell. In my opinion, Honestly,