May 19, 2026 at 2:00 pm
#4959
Participant
Honestly, yeah, that’s basically been the pattern here too. Technically, Stable for a while, then some pages just get shoved around for no obvious reason and everyone starts hunting for a “fix” that typically doesn’t exist. I’d be looking at logs before touching anything. If crawl activity didn’t change and the URLs are still getting fetched normally, it’s usually just Google reweighting stuff again, not some neat little on-site problem. The AI junk surviving while legit pages wobble is annoying, but honestly not surprising anymore. Google’s been bad at distinguishing “useful” from “easy to process” for a while now.