May 21, 2026 at 5:40 am
#8043
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To be fair, yeah, that lines up with what I’ve seen too. The annoying part is you can’t always tell if it’s a real problem or just Google doing its usual wobble. If it’s only a few days, I’d shrug it off. If it keeps happening every time you touch indexing/internal links, then something in the page/site setup is probably still a bit flimsy and Google’s just exposing it. Not saying the fix caused the drop, more like it removed whatever was propping it up. Also, if this is turning into the same loop every time, I’d look at whether the pages are actually getting enough signals to hold on their own instead of just relying on the crawl/indexing cleanup. That’s usually where the ugly truth is.