Reply To: Traffic dropped after indexing spike?

[Den]

Honestly, yeah, I’ve seen that too. Usually the burst itself isn’t the win, it’s just Google poking around and making a mess. If traffic fell right after, I’d be looking at which URLs got picked up, not just the count. A lot of times it’s the junk pages, tag stuff, thin variants, whatever, and then the real pages start getting shuffled around for a few days. Honestly, I wouldn’t touch anything immediately unless there was an obvious change. Let it sit a bit and see if the crawl/indexing settles back down. If it keeps bouncing for more than a week or two, then it’s probly not just a normal wobble.