Reply To: Weird indexing delays lately?

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Yeah, seeing it too. And the annoying part is the pattern keeps changing, so half the usual “fixes” feel like superstition. I’m not convinced it’s just trust either. I’ve had older sections go weird after being fine for months — crawl happens, URL’s in sitemap, internal links are there, and it just sits. Then some junk page with a worse setup gets indexed fast for no obvious reason. That’s the part that makes it feel broken, not just “slow.” Honestly I’ve stopped treating crawl as a meaningful signal on its own. It’s more like Google poked the URL and then wandered off. If the page doesn’t get some stronger site-level signal or whatever they’re keying off right now, it can just rot in limbo. And yeah, the “ugly indexing tricks” thing… I’ve seen that backfire more than once. Sometimes it nudges a page, sometimes it just adds more noise and you still don’t know…