Reply To: Traffic tanked after indexing finally hit

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Yeah, that’s the part that drives me nuts too. By the time it finally lands, the query set has already moved on or the SERP got reshuffled. On affiliate stuff especially, late indexing basically means you got a clean index entry for a dead page. I’d still look at crawl logs though, because sometimes it’s not “Google being weird” so much as the page never got enough internal weight to matter until it was already stale. But yeah, when it’s happening on multiple sites at once, it sure feels like the same old delayed crawl nonsense.