<b>Ch. 17: The Indexing Audit When Pages Just Vanished</b>

<b>Ch. 17: The Indexing Audit When Pages Just Vanished</b>

Month 13, three of my best earners dropped to zero clicks. Not deranked — gone. I ran an indexing audit before assuming a penalty.

— Checked each URL in GSC's inspection tool — status read "Crawled, currently not indexed." Not a penalty, a quality signal
— Compared the deindexed pages to my indexed ones: the dead ones were my thinnest, most templated
— Beefed up each with original content, a real comparison table, and a unique intro — no more spun feel
— Removed the 4 near-duplicate pages cannibalizing them and 301'd in
— Requested re-indexing manually on each

Two of three returned to the index within 5 weeks and recovered ~80% of revenue. The third I'd merged away.

Lesson banked: "crawled, not indexed" isn't Google losing your page — it's Google judging it not worth keeping. Earn the slot back.

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