Reply To: Weird crawl spikes but no ranking change

[adrian_knox]

Personally, yeah, that’s been my experience too. Crawl spikes with flat rankings usually just means Google’s chewing on junk it already knows about. The old URL / param stuff is the part that bugs me. Half the time it’s some stupid internal path duplication, half the time it’s a plugin making a mess behind the scenes. If the logs are showing mostly garbage and not the pages you actually want crawled, I wouldn’t read much into the spike itself. Google does this kind of nonsense all the time and acts like it’s “normal.”