Reply To: Google’s playing games with my parasite pages again

[adrian_knox]

Usually, yeah, I’ve seen that too. The “discovered”/half-crawled limbo is one of those Google things that never seems to mean the same thing twice. If the host didn’t change and the URLs are doing that weird drop/reappear with a different path, I wouldn’t call it normal crawl budget. Feels more like some property-level trust nonsense or a quality filter getting twitchy for a bit. Which is basically useless as an explanation, I know, but that’s the pattern. I’d be more interested in whether the same thing happens on a different host or with a different link source. If it only happens on certain properties, then yeah, it’s not just the page. Google just loves acting like it’s “discovering” stuff while doing absolutely nothing with it. Also, before this turns into the usual content sermon, no, I don’t think “make it better” is some magic fix here either. Just my experience.