Reply To: Anyone else seeing weird index delays?

Honestly, yeah, it’s not just you. I’ve seen this pattern enough times now that I don’t buy the “just improve internal links” handwave people love throwing around. Some pages get treated like they’re radioactive for a week or two, then a useless URL on a dead site gets waved through in 24 hours. Makes the whole thing look way more random than it should. What’s annoying is the logs usually don’t even show anything dramatic. Crawl happens, page gets fetched, then nothing. No obvious block, no noindex, no canonical mess, just… limbo. And then some garbage page with zero value gets indexed like it’s urgent. Honestly feels like Google’s prioritization is just off again, or they’re leaning way too hard on whatever their discovery signals are at the moment. I’ve had a couple cases where an older page with steady recrawls eventually drags the new one in, but even that’s been slow and inconsistent. So yeah, same cursed behavior here. Not thrilled about it either.