Googlebot doesn't crawl your "important" pages first by design

Googlebot doesn't crawl your "important" pages first by design

The clean mental model — Google ranks your URLs by importance and crawls top-down — is mostly a story we tell ourselves. Crawl scheduling is messier: popularity (links, real traffic signals), staleness, server response, and historical change frequency all feed it.

A boring page that changes daily can out-crawl your flagship that never moves. Google front-loads crawl toward URLs likely to have changed and likely to matter, which is not the same as your sitemap priority field — that field is essentially ignored.

So "my key page isn't crawled enough" usually means it never changes and barely earns links. Demand is low because you gave Google no reason to come back.

Give it a reason or stop expecting visits.