Reply To: Traffic dropped after indexing spike?

From what I see, Personally, yeah, I’ve had the same thing happen and it’s usually not a “nice” burst at all. What I’ve seen is Google will suddenly pick up a pile of URLs, then a couple days later the actual money pages start wobbling while some garbage gets indexed or re-crawled for no reason. Traffic drops right after because the query mix changes, or it starts testing different pages and you get that ugly shuffle. I wouldn’t trust the spike unless it sticks past the first week or so. If the indexed URLs were mostly junk, that’s usually the part that worries me more than the burst itself. Google loves making it look like progress before it turns into a mess.