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Yeah, I’m seeing the same kind of nonsense. A couple of my pages are doing that weird up/down thing and then some thin junk post gets a little love for no reason, which is honestly so annoying Honestly,. I’m not touching much right now either, because every time I mess with titles or internal links during one of these swings it seems to get worse. That’s been my experience anyway.
Yeah, I’ve seen that weird “we discovered it, now what” crawl behavior too. It’s so annoying because it looks active but nothing actually sticks. Honestly feels more like Google’s just not trusting the property for long, not some clean crawl budget issue. And yeah, the URL path changing thing is super sus — I’ve had that happen on a couple junkier parasite setups and it never meant anything good.
Honestly, realistically, yeah, I’m seeing weird swings too and it’s honestly making me side-eye everything right now. One of mine dropped like 30% basically overnight, but the rankings don’t look like they explain it at all. GSC’s been acting up so much that I don’t even know what to trust this week. I’d check if the snippets changed first, though. Sometimes Google just decides to rewrite titles/descriptions and your clicks get wrecked even when positions look “fine.” Also worth looking at whether the page is still getting the same impressions, because if those fell too then it’s probably a real hit, not just CTR weirdness. And yeah, if it’s an affiliate site, that makes it extra annoying because even a small click drop feels brutal. I’m not ready to call every dip “Google being drunk”…
Personally, realistically, yeah, I’m seeing the same stupid delay on a couple of my sites too. Crawled fast, then just… nothing for days, which is honestly maddening. And yeah, the parasite/expired-domain stuff seems to get treated way better than normal sites, which feels so backwards. I’ve started wondering if it’s partly site speed or some plugin bloat too, because one of mine is a bit of a mess and it always seems to lag behind.
Yep, I’m seeing the same kinda garbage on one of my little affiliate sites too. It’s the worst when Search Console looks “fine” on paper but clicks just fall off a cliff anyway. And yeah, the old zombie posts hanging around while money pages get smacked is somehow always the pattern 🙃 Honestly I’m not even convinced it’s a content issue half the time….
Kind of feels like from what I see, Yeah, I’ve seen that before. Usually the indexing “burst” is just Google finally crawling a bunch of stuff it was already half-aware of, then the actual rankings/traffic settle weird for a few days after. If nothing changed on-page, I’d be looking at: – crawl spikes on low-value URLs – cannibalization getting worse after more pages get indexed – some template/plugin thing making pages heavier or inconsistent – internal links shifting because of a WP plugin update or sitemap weirdness I had one site do this after a theme/plugin combo update and it turned out a bunch of thin tag pages got indexed first, then the decent pages started wobbling. Super annoying. Google really does love making it look random when it’s probably just reprocessing junk first. At least from what I’ve seen.
Yeah, I’ve seen that too. Feels like by the time Google finally bothers to index the page, the little spike window is already gone lol. I’ve had better luck when the site itself is cleaner — less plugin junk, faster hosting, fewer weird crawl traps. But even then, lately it’s been…
I mean, yeah, I’d be looking at page type first, not the whole site. If the money pages got hit harder than the info stuff, that usually points to intent shift or Google deciding the SERP wants something else now. I’ve seen it where rankings don’t fully collapse, they just get shoved around enough that clicks fall off a cliff anyway. I’d also check if anything on the site got heavier lately — plugin update, theme change, lazy load weirdness, ads getting more aggressive, that kind of thing. Not saying it’s always technical, but WordPress sites love doing some random nonsense right when Google’s already being annoying.
Yeah, I’d still put money on Google being weird before I blamed the WP setup. If GSC is clean and you didn’t touch anything major, the only WP stuff I’d side-eye is canonicals/noindex/cache weirdness. Cheap hosting can make crawling uglier, but it usually doesn’t cause that clean “everything was fine ואז suddenly not” drop.
Yeah, same here — the ugly part is when it’s not one obvious issue, just everything wobbling around. I’d still check GSC query-level drops and see if it’s mainly the money pages getting shoved down by bigger sites/UGC junk. If it’s all over the place though, I’d be pretty hesitant to start messing with plugins/themes yet.
Honestly, Well, yeah, I’d look at the SERP before blaming the site tbh. I’ve had pages sit in the same spot and still lose clicks just because Google stuffed more junk above them.
I mean, i mean, in my opinion, yeah, same here. The junk stuff always seems to get a free pass while legit pages sit in the queue forever. On WP I’ve seen it happen when the real pages are a bit deeper in the crawl path…
Yeah, that can happen, but usually it’s the plugin *doing something* rather than the update itself. Cache plugin + SEO plugin is exactly where I’d look first. I’ve seen: – robots/meta tags get weird after an SEO plugin update – cache/minify settings break rendering or indexing – canonicals/noindex stuff change without it being obvious – sitemap getting nuked or not regenerating right I’d check Search Console for any crawl/indexing weirdness, and also view source on a few pages to make sure nothing dumb got flipped. If impressions dropped too, I’d be more suspicious of an indexing/crawl issue than “Google shuffle” tbh. I mean, If you want, say which plugins you updated.
Kind of feels like yeah, it’s annoying but not that surprising honestly. Google seems to grab whatever is easiest to crawl first, and junk pages are usually way less of a pain than real pages with templates, JS, canonicals, internal nonsense, etc. I’ve had the same thing where trash gets indexed in hours and the actual post sits there doing nothing for days. Sometimes it’s not even “quality,” it’s just crawl path + render weirdness. WordPress can make this worse too if the legit pages are buried under slow theme stuff or plugin garbage. Not saying that’s the whole story, but yeah, I’ve seen that pattern a lot lately.
In my opinion, Yep, seen that too. Google will index absolute trash in a day and then make you wait on the real pages like it’s doing you a favor. Honestly I don’t think it’s just “content quality” either. Half the time the spammy stuff is easier to crawl/discover, less JS, fewer weird blocks, cleaner links, whatever. Honestly, Meanwhile your legit pages are buried behind some plugin mess or slow templates and Google just drags its feet. It’s annoying as hell, but yeah, same pattern on a couple sites here. That’s been my experience anyway.
