May 20, 2026 at 8:08 pm
#6420
Participant
From experience, from what I see, Yeah, that’s pretty much been my experience too. Once a parasite page gets that “meh” treatment from Google, it’s like it never really recovers unless something pretty major changes. The annoying part is people act like it’s always some genius content issue. Half the time it’s just the whole footprint getting old or burned. I’ve had stuff rank, then sit there for a bit, then just quietly disappear like it got put in a drawer somewhere. At this point I don’t even trust the “same setup” part anymore. Same setup on paper, sure, but Google seems to be reading the pattern way harder than people want to admit.