Reply To: Anyone else seeing weird index delays?

[Nathan]

Yeah, same here. I’ve had a few newer WP pages just sit in limbo for ages while some absolute trash URL gets picked up almost instantly. What’s been annoying me is it doesn’t even look like a crawl problem half the time. Fetch happens, server’s fine, no weird noindex/canonical junk, and then… nothing. Just Google being Google, I guess. I’ve seen it happen more on sites where the new stuff isn’t getting much fresh movement elsewhere, but even then it’s inconsistent as hell. One site with decent internal linking still had a 10-day delay on a normal post, while some low-value tag page got indexed the same day. Makes no…