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

[hankroot]

Honestly, Yeah, seen it plenty. Google’s real quick to grab the easy junk and then sit on decent pages like it’s doing you a favor. In my logs the stuff that gets indexed fastest is usually the dumbest page on the site — thin HTML, obvious links, no JS nonsense, no weird render delay. Meanwhile the pages you actually care about have some extra crap hanging off them and Google just drags its feet. What I’d check first, boring as it is: – are the real pages getting crawled at all, or just discovered? – any canonicals pointing somewhere stupid – noindex getting injected by a template or CMS setting – whether those pages are buried too deep internally – if they’re relying on JS to show the main content I’ve also seen cases where the junk pages get linked from somewhere Google already trusts, even if it’s just one stupid internal path, and the legit pages are basically orphaned by comparison. And yeah, “make better content” is such lazy advice in this situation. If Google can index parasite garbage in hours, it’s not a content quality sermon, it’s a crawl/discovery problem or just Google being flaky as usual.