Reply To: Traffic dropped after pages got indexed

[axelrowan]

Yeah, I wouldn’t read much into the “indexed” part by itself anymore. Google’s been pretty happy to crawl stuff, give it a tiny test drive, then basically shelve it if it doesn’t like the site/section/intent match. I’ve seen the same thing on newer sections where the pages are technically clean, render fine, logs look normal, all that. Still just… nothing. Old pages keep the juice, new ones get the cold shoulder. Not saying content never matters, but “just improve the content” is such a lazy answer for this one. Could be wrong though.