Reply To: Google indexing my spam pages but not real ones

Yeah, I’ve seen that too. Usually means the junk is sitting in a cleaner crawl path or has fewer weird signals attached to it, not that Google suddenly “likes” spam. The annoying part is the legit pages often get buried behind some crawl/rendering/canonical mess and just sit there while the trash gets snapped up because it’s easy. Google’s pretty good at finding garbage fast, apparently. I’d be looking at logs before anything else. If the spam pages are getting hit more often or earlier, that’s typically your answer right there.