Reply To: Anyone else seeing weird indexing again?

[meloncrash]

Yeah, I’m seeing it too, and it’s driving me nuts. One site is basically normal, another’s acting like it got put in timeout for no reason. Same CMS, same kind of content, same internal links, nothing obvious changed on my end. GSC just sits there looking stupid while pages that should’ve moved days ago are still “Discovered” or whatever. I don’t buy the “it’s always your site” thing anymore either. Sometimes it really does feel like Google’s just wobbling around and picking random properties to ignore for a bit. I’ve had pages suddenly dump in all at once after sitting dead for a week, which is even more annoying because it makes the whole thing feel completely arbitrary. Only thing I’ve noticed is the sites that stay healthy usually already have some steady crawl activity going. The ones that go dead seem to lose momentum fast and then everything slows down. Could be crawl paths, could be trust, could just be Google being Google. Hard to tell because they won’t show anything useful, obviously. If it keeps dragging on, I usually check the boring stuff first: server logs, sitemap timestamps, and whether the dead site’s getting fewer hits overall. Half the time it’s not the content, it’s the crawl pattern just falling off a cliff…