Reply To: Google indexing is acting totally broken again

Yeah, I’m seeing the same garbage. What’s been annoying me is pages that clearly get crawled, then just sit there like Google shoved them in a drawer and forgot about them. No pattern I can trust either — thin stuff, decent stuff, clean internal links, doesn’t matter. Some get in fast, others just rot To be fair,. I’ve had a couple sites where the only thing that seemed to help was making the page look “less new” for a bit — update it once, ping internal links to it again, then leave it alone. Even then it’s hit or miss. And yeah, the “just improve content” crowd can spare me. That doesn’t explain why absolute junk on competitor sites gets indexed while decent pages sit in limbo for a week or…