Reply To: Traffic dropped again after indexing fix?

[meloncrash]

Interesting take. Obviously. Yeah, I’ve seen it too, and honestly I don’t buy the “just wait” line half the time. Sometimes it really is Google doing that dumb little re-crawl / re-score wobble, but other times the page was already kind of held together with duct tape and the indexing fix just made the problems show up. I’ve had pages get picked up, then lose impressions for a few days, then come back… and I’ve had others just keep bleeding traffic because the page was never that strong to begin with. What’s annoying is it never looks clean. You fix one thing and Google acts like you kicked a hornet nest. Then everyone on here starts acting like it’s all normal and temporary, which is easy to say when it’s not your traffic tanking. If it’s only a short dip, fine. If it’s still sliding after a week or two, I’d stop blaming indexing and start looking at whether the page actually deserves to rank. Which, yeah, sucks, but Google’s been pretty good at making that obvious lately.