Reply To: Anyone else seeing weird index delays?

Yeah, same here. Feels less like a “crawl” issue and more like the indexer just deciding some stuff is worth sitting on for no obvious reason. I’ve seen it on a couple sites where the logs look fine, fetches happen, sitemap entries are there, and still the new pages just rot for days. Meanwhile some useless thin page gets in almost immediately. Makes the whole thing feel pretty arbitrary. What’s been annoying me lately is even pages with decent internal links aren’t immune. So when people jump straight to “just improve your linking” I kinda roll my eyes — sometimes that helps, sometimes it does absolutely nothing. I’m leaning toward it being some mix of freshness signals and whatever garbage quality threshold they’re using internally, but honestly Google’s been weird enough that I don’t trust any clean explanation anymore. Personally,