Reply To: Anyone else getting random indexing delays?

Personally, yeah, we’ve been seeing it on a few client sites too. New pages just sit in limbo, then some random nonsense URL gets attention way faster than it should. What’s annoying is it doesn’t even look consistent site-to-site, so I’m not convinced it’s just “your crawl budget” or whatever the usual hand-wavy answer is. Google’s been doing that thing lately where it seems to latch onto junk first and leave the actual pages hanging. I’ve had a couple cases where internal linking was fine, sitemap was clean, and still the new pages took ages while some old parameter crap got indexed. Pretty much par for the course at this point, which is depressing.