Reply To: Traffic dropped again after indexing fix?

Yeah, I’ve had that happen more than once. Usually it’s not the “fix” itself, it’s Google reprocessing the page and then deciding to act weird for a bit. The part that drives me nuts is when the page *finally* gets indexed and then impressions just tank like it got slapped with a penalty, when really it’s probably just being re-scored or shuffled around. I’ve seen it more on pages that were already kind of hanging on by a thread. If the page was borderline, a cleanup can expose that pretty fast. If it’s a solid page and it still drops hard for more than a week or two, then yeah, I’d start thinking the change didn’t help much or Google just doesn’t like the page as much as before. Honestly, “wait for it to settle” is only useful up to a point. After that it’s just forum filler. At least from what I’ve seen.