Reply To: Weird indexing delays again this week

[axelrowan]

Yeah, same here. The weird part is it’s not even “slow crawl” in any normal sense, it’s just selective as hell. I’ve seen clean pages with decent internal links sit in Discovered for days while some random deeper URL gets picked up first. Logs usually don’t show much beyond the homepage, a couple hubs, then nothing. That’s why I don’t buy the “must be a content problem” line every time — sometimes it really does look like crawl prioritization just went sideways. What I’ve noticed lately is that pages with weaker pathing from the homepage seem to get ignored longer, even if they’re in the sitemap and linked internally. Not a hard rule, just enough of a pattern to be annoying. And yeah, rendering can make it worse, but if you’re not seeing JS issues on your side, I’d still suspect queueing / discovery priority before anything else. Honestly feels like one of those weeks where Google’s just being Google again.