Reply To: Google keeps ignoring my new pages

Honestly, yeah, I’ve been seeing that too, and it’s not just “new site” stuff anymore. I’ve had pages with solid internal links sit in limbo for days, sometimes longer, even when they’re not thin or spammy. Search Console will act like it’s doing something, then nothing. Feels a lot more random than it used to. What’s been weird for me is Google seems way pickier about whether the page actually adds something new vs. just being “another page on the site.” If the cluster around it isn’t strong enough, it just kind of ignores it. Internal links help, but they’re not magic if the page looks weak in the wider crawl/index pattern. Could be crawl budget, could be quality thresholds, could just be Google being Google for a week. I’ve had stuff get picked up fast after I linked it from a higher-traffic page, and other times I had to wait forever even with the same setup. So yeah, not just you. The “fresh content gets crawled quickly” thing…